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Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed on 30 December 2006. [1] 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.
Saddam Hussein [c] (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003. He previously served as the vice president of Iraq from 1968 to 1979 and also served as prime minister from 1979 to 1991 and later from 1994 to 2003.
1]: Commanded by: Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno Col. James Hickey Lt. Col. Steve Russell: Target: Saddam Hussein (POW): Date: 13 December 2003; 21 years ago (): Executed by: 4th Infantry Division. 1st Brigade Combat Team; Task Force 121. C Squadron – Delta Force; ISA; Outcome: Operational success . Capture and arrest of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and two others [2; This article is ...
A new book written by a former Army infantry officer is shedding light on Saddam Hussein's mysterious final months before his 2006 execution.
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity [10] on November 5, 2006, and was executed on December 30, 2006 at approximately 6:00 a.m. local time. During the drop there was an audible crack indicating that his neck was broken, a successful example of a long drop hanging .
The trial for the Anfal campaign was still underway on 30 December 2006, when Saddam Hussein was executed for his role in the unrelated Dujail massacre. [37] The Anfal trial recessed on 21 December 2006, and when it resumed on 8 January 2007, the remaining charges against Saddam Hussein were dropped.
On 14 June 1984, the court handed down the mandatory death sentence. On 23 July 1984, Saddam signed the court documents authorising the executions and ordered the razing of the homes, buildings, date palms and fruit orchards of the convicted. On March 23, 1985, 96 of the 105 condemned still living were executed.
Uday and Qusay Hussein, sons of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, were killed during an American military operation conducted on 22 July 2003, in the city of Mosul, Iraq. The operation originally intended to apprehend them, but turned into a four-hour gun battle outside a fortified safehouse which ended with the death of the brothers ...