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Hundreds of mourners have flocked to Saddam Hussein's tomb in his home village in northern Iraq, where he was buried after being hanged for crimes against humanity. In an outpouring of grief and anger from Saddam's fellow Sunni Arabs, mourners knelt and prayed by his tomb, over which the Iraqi flag had been draped. Many have vowed revenge against Americans soldiers and the Shiite-led Government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. More than 1,000 Palestinians have demonstrated in Jenin in the northern West Bank in response to the execution. Demonstrators carried pictures of Saddam and chanted slogans against Iran, the United...

SADDAM Hussein has been buried in the dead of night in his native village as shocking new footage of his hanging emerged. Saddam's body was flown by US military helicopter to his home city of Tikrit in northern Iraq and, as agreed with US and Iraqi officials, buried in haste at nearby Awja in a 3am ceremony. But even as he was laid to rest, new video footage of his hanging emerged, showing his body swinging from the gallows and Shiite officials taunting him to the very end. Sectarian passions that have pushed Iraq toward civil war since US troops...

THE grandson of Benito Mussolini has lodged a legal request to exhume the body of Italy's fascist dictator to find out how "Il Duce" really died, his lawyer said. World War 2 resistance accounts say Mussolini was executed by a partisan fighter "in the name of the Italian people" after he was captured in April 1945 while fleeing Allied forces with his mistress. "All lies," said Luciano Randazzo, Guido Mussolini's lawyer. "The real story is not what they told you ... absolutely not." The accounts name the executioner as the late Walter Audisio, also know by his war name "Colonel...