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: This undated file photograph shows Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging early Saturday...
The execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took place on 30 December 2006. 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 ...
- 30 December 2006; 16 years ago
Jan 1, 2007 · Saddam Hussein hanging from a noose after execution in Baghdad early on Saturday, in a photograph seemingly taken by camera phone and obtained from an Arab-language website. Photograph: AP
Dec 30, 2006 · AP/Iraqi TV This video image shows Saddam Hussein's guard wearing a ski mask and wrapping a piece of black cloth around the deposed leader's neck moments before his execution Saturday Dec. 30. 2006.
Dec 30, 2006 · The former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, has been hanged in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity. 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.
Dec 29, 2016 · Al-iraqia/Getty Images. CNN —. On the morning of the start of Eid al-Adha on December 30, 2006, Saddam Hussein was hanged to death for committing crimes against humanity.