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Saddam Hussein hanged

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-12-30 08:51

A frame grab from Al Iraqiya television shows a piece of cloth being placed around former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's neck moments before his execution in Baghdad December 30, 2006. Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity at dawn on Saturday, a dramatic, violent end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before he was toppled by a U.S. invasion four years ago.  [Reuters]