Execution of Saddam Hussein
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execution-of-saddam-hussein-168-17496081
title:
Execution of Saddam Hussein
text:
The execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the Dujail massacre—the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail—in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him. The Iraqi government released an official video of his execution, showing him being led to the gallows, and ending after the hangman's noose was p
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2006 execution of former Iraqi president
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Saddam_Hussein
date created:
2006-12-28T22:20:40Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T04:13:12Z
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