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Reuters:
Saddam Hussein hanged, says Al Hurra TV station — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi television station Al Hurra said Saddam Hussein had been executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Saturday. — The former Iraqi president ousted in April 2003 by a U.S.- led invasion …
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Associated Press:
Official: Saddam to be executed tonight — BAGHDAD, Iraq - The official witnesses to Saddam Hussein's impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime's atrocities.
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See-Dubya / Hot Air:
Report: Saddam hanged — Word just in from al-Arabiya that Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti is dead. — Sic Semper Tyrannis. Watch this space for more details. — Update (AP): Al-Hurra is reporting it too. I'm monitoring Al Jazeera in the expectation that they'll have the video before American media does.
Martin Lewis / The Huffington Post:
WELL HUNG! Saddam Hung To Prove Bush is BETTER Hung... (Than His Dad) — (Photo of well-hung leader by www.wacotrib.com) — We Got Him!!!! Only $354 Billion & 3,000 US Military! — (I'd call that a Bargain. The best we've ever had...) — Some thanks are in order: — 1) To George W. Bush.
Associated Press:
SADDAM HUSSEIN EXECUTED BY HANGING IN IRAQ — BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century, was taken to the gallows and executed Saturday, Iraqi state-run television reported.
New York Times:
Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence Is Hanged for Crimes Against Humanity — Saddam Hussein, the dictator who led Iraq through three decades of brutality, war and bombast before American forces chased him from his capital city and captured him in a filthy pit near his hometown …
MSNBC:
Saddam Hussein executed — Deposed Iraqi dictator hanged for deaths of 148 Shiites in 1982 — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three years after he was hauled from a hole in the ground by pursuing U.S. forces, Saddam Hussein was hanged Saturday under a sentence imposed by an Iraqi court, an Iraqi official told NBC News.
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Reuters:
Saddam Hussein hanged: witnesses — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein was hanged at dawn on Saturday, a dramatic end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before a U.S. invasion toppled him and was then convicted of crimes against humanity.
Human Rights Watch News Releases:
Iraq: Saddam Hussein Put to Death — Hanging After Flawed Trial Undermines Rule of Law — The execution of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein following a deeply flawed trial for crimes against humanity marks a significant step away from respect for human rights and the rule of law in Iraq, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Gateway Pundit:The Death of a Butcher- Saddam Hussein's Final Hours
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Bill Carter / New York Times:TV Executives Debate Whether to Show Execution
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Michael J. Totten:
Hezbollah's Christian Allies — This is the second installment in a series. You can read Part One here if you missed it. — BEIRUT - While Hezbollah staged a mass protest and sit-in downtown Beirut with the hopes of ousting the elected anti-Syrian "March 14" government, I watched from the patio of a café across the street.
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Radley Balko / Reason Magazine:
Ann Althouse responds to Ron Bailey here . — It is a bizarre response. Apparently what so offended Althouse is that anyone could possibly believe that a private business owner should be permitted to privately discriminate on the basis of race. This, to her, isn't a position that's compatible with civil discourse.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:Here's the post where I take on Ron Bailey of Reason Magazine.
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Newsweek:
CAIR Play? — Sen. Barbara Boxer recalled an award she recently gave to an Islamic activist because of his ties to a major American Muslim organization—that critics say has ties to terrorist activities. — Dangerous Group? President Bush met with Muslim-American representatives on Sept. 17, 2001.
BBC:
Housework cuts breast cancer risk — Women who exercise by doing the housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, a study suggests. — The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing sport.
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Steve Benen / Political Animal:
BUCKING RUBINOMICS.... Last week, Paul Krugman offered the incoming Democratic majority some advice: do not place deficit reduction at the top of the priority list. — As Krugman explained, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin helped convince the party in the 1990s that deficit reduction was key to fiscal and budgetary policy.
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