Saddam Hussein executed
Saddam got hung.
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged in the predawn hours Saturday for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of Shia men and boys in the 1980s.
He was sent to the gallows by a U.S.-backed government led by Shia Muslims who had been oppressed during his rule, Iraqi and American officials said.
In the early morning, Hussein, 69, was escorted from his U.S. military prison cell at Camp Cropper, near the Baghdad airport, and handed over to Iraqi officials. He was executed on the day Sunni Muslims, of which he was a member, celebrate the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha.
The former leader died before a small group of observers, and sources told CNN Friday night that some of them danced in the room where he had been executed.
From his ranch in Crawford, Texas, President George W. Bush called Hussein’s execution “the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime.” He cautioned that the death will not halt the violence in Iraq.
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