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To: AVNevis

Execution takes place at dawn a month after ex-leader's conviction for role in 148 killings in 1982. • FULL STORY

4,442 posted on 12/29/2006 8:05:14 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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Some people are deserved to be depressed over this. They were rooting for a wrong guy.
4,463 posted on 12/29/2006 8:11:47 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster (kim jong-il, kae jong-il, chia head, pogri, midget sh*tbag)
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To: TexKat
Last Updated: Saturday, 30 December 2006, 03:51 GMT

Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location in Baghdad.

Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT).

Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the 1982 killings of 148 Shias in the town of Dujail.

Two co-defendants, Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and former Iraqi chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bandar, were also executed.

"Criminal Saddam was hanged to death," state-run Iraqiya television announced, as patriotic music and images of national monuments were broadcast.

A scrolling headline read: "Saddam's execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq's history."

The TV station said Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court were also hanged.


4,468 posted on 12/29/2006 8:12:55 PM PST by michigander (The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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