Iraqi Television, via Associated Press Video Video from Iraqi state television showed a noose being placed around Saddam Husseins neck before his hanging early Saturday. One Western official said that some of the American legal advisers working on the case appeared stunned at the hasty pace of events late Friday as they walked through the corridors of the Republican Palace, once Mr. Even as the executions appeared inevitable, many were skeptical or disbelieving that the noose could drop around Mr. Rubaie could not confirm this.Ĭoncerned that the execution could incite violence, United States forces were placed on stepped-up alert and Iraqi officials suggested that the daily curfews here might be extended throughout the weekend. Hussein’s half-brother Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, were hanged after Mr. The Iraqi state television said the co-defendants, Mr. Hussein’s co-defendants were also hanged. There were conflicting accounts about whether two of Mr. “Bringing Saddam Hussein to justice will not end the violence in Iraq, but it is an important milestone on Iraq’s course to becoming a democracy that can govern, sustain and defend itself, and be an ally in the war on terror.” “Saddam Hussein’s execution comes at the end of a difficult year for the Iraqi people and for our troops,” Mr.
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Hussein “was executed after receiving a fair trial - the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime.”
Bush had gone to sleep before hearing the news, he said Mr. Bush had received a briefing from his national security adviser Friday afternoon, when he learned the execution would be carried out within hours, Mr. Bush had gone to bed before the execution took place and was not awakened. All Iraqis will look to the future after the end of this era.”Īt President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex., a White House spokesman, Scott Stanzel, said Mr. “He just gave up,” said Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq’s national security adviser. Hussein was dressed entirely in black and carrying a Koran and that he was compliant as the noose was draped around his neck. Witnesses said 14 Iraqi officials had attended the hanging, at the former military intelligence building in northern Baghdad, now part of an American base. was announced on state-run Iraqiya television. He had received the sentence less than two months before from a special court set up to judge his reign as the almost unchallenged dictator of Iraq. Hussein, 69, came with terrible swiftness after he lost the appeal, five days ago, of his death sentence for the killings of 148 men and boys in the northern town of Dujail in 1982. 30 - Saddam Hussein, the dictator who led Iraq through three decades of brutality, war and bombast before American forces chased him from his capital city and captured him in a filthy pit near his hometown, was hanged just before dawn Saturday during the morning call to prayer.
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