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On the Right on Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:19:27 PM
This video image released by Iraqi state television shows Saddam
Hussein's guards wearing ski masks and placing a noose around the
deposed leader's neck moments before his execution Saturday Dec. 30.
2006. Clutching a Quran and refusing a hood, Saddam Hussein went to the
gallows before sunrise Saturday, executed by vengeful countrymen after
a quarter-century of remorseless brutality that killed countless
thousands and led Iraq into disastrous wars against the United States
and Iran.