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Saddam Hussein executed.

Europe Intelligence Wire

| December 30, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Guardian Unlimited)

The former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has today been executed by hanging, at an unspecified location in Baghdad.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a US official confirmed that the execution had taken place.

US-backed Iraqi television station al-Hurra and Saudi-owned satellite channel al-Arabiya said that the former Iraqi president was executed at 6am local time, following his conviction by an Iraqi court for crimes against humanity.

Al-Arabiya has also reported that Saddam Hussein's half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and Iraq's former chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bander - both of whom were also sentenced to death at …

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