Sunday, November 05, 2006

Iraqi tribunal sentences Saddam to hang (AP)

Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein yells at the court as he receives his verdict as a bailiff attempts to restrain him during his trial held under tight security in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad Iraq Sunday Nov. 5 2006. Saddam and two others were convicted and sentenced to death by hanging for war crimes in the 1982 killings of 148 people in the town of Dujail. (AP Photo/David Furst/pool)AP - Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town as the ousted leader trembling and defiant shouted "God is great!"


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