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Saddam's body returned to home village for burial - Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was brought to his home village early Sunday morning in a simple wood coffin for burial, less than 24 hours after his execution. A few hundred mourners paid their respects in the predawn darkness for a man who led their nation over three decades of fear, brutality and war. "The execution of Saddam was a cowardly act," said Hameed Salman Majeed, one of Saddam's cousins, as he greeted mourners next to Hussein's temporary grave, dug into a marble-floored social center in Auja, 120 miles north of Baghdad. "We feel proud that he stood at the gallows, proud and upright." The burial was a bookend to six grim days that began with Iraq's highest court upholding Saddam's death sentence and ended with his hanging to jeers and condemnations from Shiite witnesses, whose community his regime ruthlessly oppressed. Even as late as Saturday night, it was unclear where.......   Gulf News 

Witness tells of Saddam's last moments - Saddam Hussein was executed at dawn on the first day of the Eid al-Adha, just as Sunni Muslims were preparing to make their sacrificial offering by killing a sheep to celebrate the end of the pilgrimage season. The crass symbolism did not escape them. Many were outraged. And there was further outrage when a new video of the execution was posted on the internet - this one taken with a mobile phone, and with a soundtrack. For Arab public opinion, which had long believed that the trial was unfair, filming the execution was triumphalist and in.......   More 

Photo Above: Iraqis grieve beside the grave of Saddam in Awjah( his birth place ), Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006. Saddam was buried Sunday in a compound for religious ceremonies.

Photo Above: Saddam being executed by hanging by masked men Saturday, December 30. 2006.
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