Saddam hussein pictures execution

Iraqi state TV showed images of Saddam Hussein going to the gallows before dawn in a building his intelligence services once used for executions. However the moment of his execution was not shown. Pictures of his body wrapped in a shroud were later broadcast on TV. A representative of the prime minister and a Sunni Muslim cleric were among a group of Iraqis present.

Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court on 5 November after a year-long trial over the killings of Shias from the town of Dujail in the s.

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Holding Koran A small group of Iraqis witnessed the execution in a spartan concrete-lined chamber at an Iraqi compound known by the Americans as Camp Justice in the suburb of Khadimiya. We took him to the gallows and he was saying some few slogans. The former Iraqi leader was carrying a copy of the Koran and asked for it to be given to a friend.

Footage broadcast later on Iraqi state TV showed a subdued Saddam Hussein being led to gallows by a group of masked men. He was dressed in a white shirt and dark overcoat, rather than prison garb. Saddam Hussein was led up onto the gallows platform and a dark piece of cloth placed around his neck, followed by the noose.