Ok, I looked it up; Saddam Hussein was executed on December 30, 2006 and the ps3 launched on Nov 11, 2006 in Japan and Nov 17, 2006 in the US. So, technically, he was alive for the launch.

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Intermernet an hour ago | parent [-]

That factoid has the ingredients for an awesome conspiracy theory ;-)

	▲	genewitch 39 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		in case you don't check up again, i did find this https://web.archive.org/web/20041120084657/http://arrakis.nc... And in my mind the whole story was a publicity stunt, considering the political wind at the time and the place that broke the story; which was then quoted at me in college.