Saddam Hussein struggled briefly after American military guards handed him over to Iraqi executioners before dawn Saturday. But as his final moments approached and masked executioners slipped a black cloth and noose around his neck, he grew calm. In a final moment of defiance, he refused a hood to cover his eyes.
Hours after Mr. Hussein faced the same fate he was accused of inflicting on countless thousands during a quarter-century of ruthless power, Iraqi state television showed grainy video of what it said was his body, the head uncovered and the neck twisted at a sharp angle.
A man whose testimony helped lead to Mr. Hussein's conviction and execution before sunrise said he was shown the body because "everybody wanted to make sure that he was really executed."
"Now, he is in the garbage of history," said Jawad Abdul-Aziz, who lost his father, three brothers and 22 cousins in the reprisal killings that followed a botched 1982 assassination attempt against Mr. Hussein in the Shiite town of Dujail.(keep reading)
2 comments:
nothing will change
there's no place for democracy in place with dictatorship, no matter if Saddam's or US bully; and that death punishment as vengeance? said way how to buy support of Irakis. And extending bellief
that only death will pay back for crime deffinitelly not make Irak better place.
And will anyone sentence those who gave Saddam 'all that support to murder' his oponents?
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