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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 attempt against him.
The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث), also called the Comrades Massacre [1] [2] (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein [3] six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979.
1]: Commanded by: Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno Col. James Hickey Lt. Col. Steve Russell: Date: 13 December 2003; 20 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; Saddam Hussein, the deposed president of Iraq ...
"The execution of Saddam Hussein is a big crime. Saddam Hussein was a prisoner of war and was arrested by the U.S. forces, and not by the Iraqi government. It is a crime with which they wanted to cover up many things", Sunni politician, Khalaf al-Ulayyan said. [9]
Saddam Hussein is one of the recipients of the Key to the City. [243] [246] In 1980, Saddam Hussein was awarded a key to the city of Detroit after he donated almost half a million dollars to a church in the city. [247] The Ba'ath government led by Saddam Hussein successfully turned Iraq into a leading hub for healthcare and education. [248]
Saddam Hussein at his appearance before the Iraqi Special Tribunal on 1 July 2004; he went on trial on 19 October 2005. On 5 November 2006, Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging for the killing of 148 Shiites from Dujail, in retaliation for the assassination attempt of 8 July 1982.
Saddam Hussein was not charged by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for crimes against humanity based on the events at Halabja. However, Iraqi prosecutors had "500 documented baskets of crimes during the Hussein regime" and Hussein was condemned to death based on just one case, the 1982 Dujail Massacre . [ 42 ]
The former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was executed at approximately 05:50 +03:00 UTC on December 30, 2006. Two weeks later on January 15, 2007, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti , former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service , and Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former head of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court, were also executed by hanging at this site.