Saddam Hussein was executed a few hours ago. He was hanged under a sentence imposed by an Iraqi court. Hussein was found guilty over the killing of 148 members of the Shiite population of the town of Dujail after militants tried to assassinate him there in 1982, during Iraq’s war with Shiite Iran. Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bander, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were also executed in connection with the Dujail killings.
Friday, December 29, 2006
SADDAM HUSSEIN SWINGS
Saddam Hussein was executed a few hours ago. He was hanged under a sentence imposed by an Iraqi court. Hussein was found guilty over the killing of 148 members of the Shiite population of the town of Dujail after militants tried to assassinate him there in 1982, during Iraq’s war with Shiite Iran. Saddam's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bander, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were also executed in connection with the Dujail killings.
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