Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century, was taken to the gallows and executed Saturday, Iraqi state-run television reported. It was a grim end for the 69-year-old leader who had vexed three U.S. presidents. Despite his ouster, Washington, its allies and the new Iraqi leaders remain mired in a fight to quell a stubborn insurgency by Saddam loyalists and a vicious sectarian conflict. State-run Iraqiya television news announcer said "criminal Saddam was hanged to death and the execution started with criminal Saddam then Barzan then Awad al-Bandar." The station earlier was airing national songs after the first announcement and had a tag on the screen that read "with Saddam’s execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq’s history." A U.S. judge on Friday refused to stop Saddam’s execution, rejecting a last-minute court challenge. The execution came 56 days after a court convicted Saddam and sentenced him to death for his role in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a town where assassins tried to kill the dictator in 1982. Iraq’s highest court rejected Saddam’s appeal Monday and ordered him executed within 30 days
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The Hollywood Reporter wrote an article about whether or not the nets will air his hanging video that was confirmed filmed at the time of his execution. Will you watch it if it becomes available?
