Saddam Executed in Baghdad
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By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
BAGHDAD, Iraq Dec 29, 2006 (AP) Saddam Hussein has been hanged,
state-run television reported Saturday. "Criminal Saddam was hanged
to death," state-run Iraqiya television said in an announcement.
The station played patriotic music and showed images of national
monuments and other landmarks.
A U.S. judge on Friday refused to stop Saddam's execution,
rejecting a last-minute court challenge.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said U.S. courts do not
have jurisdiction to interfere in another country's judicial
process. The ruling can be appealed, but it was issued within an
hour of the time Iraqi officials said they expected the execution
to be carried out.
Saddam and others were convicted of murder in the killings of 148
Shiite Muslims from an Iraqi town where assassins tried to kill
Saddam in 1982.
Also to be hanged were Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and
Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary
Court, the adviser said.