Clutching a Quran and refusing a hood, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows before sunrise Saturday, executed by vengeful countrymen. The death penalty was carried out following the guilty verdict in Saddam’s trial for the killing of 148 Shiite men and boys from the town of Dujail after militants tried to assassinate him there in 1982, during Iraq’s war with Shiite Iran.
Saddam was executed at a former military intelligence headquarters in Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah, al-Askari said. The neighborhood is home to the Iraqi capital’s most important Shiite shine, the Imam Kazim shrine.
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Saddam was executed at a former military intelligence headquarters in Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah, al-Askari said. The neighborhood is home to the Iraqi capital’s most important Shiite shine, the Imam Kazim shrine.
What do our members feel ? Did Saddam Hussein get a fair trail? Was his execution necessary ? Let the opinions flow freely.
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