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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; Update: Witnesses danced around the body? — 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 …
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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 for war crimes — Saddam Hussein, the shotgun-waving dictator who ruled Iraq with a remorseless brutality for a quarter-century and was driven from power by a U.S.-led war that left his country in shambles, was taken to the gallows clutching a Quran and hanged Saturday.
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 …
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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.
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.
Michelle Malkin:
Report: Saddam is dead — ***11:30pm Eastern update...CNN and Arab media reporting that pictures/video expected soon...Iraqi state TV reporting it will air images...11:46pm Eastern...CNN correspondent says a witness reports there was "fear in Hussein's face" as he headed to execution...Celebration...***
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Times of London:
Obituary - Saddam Hussein — Former Iraqi dictator who ruled his country without mercy and struck fear into the heart of millions — Saddam Hussein was a tyrant whose actions brought down unimaginable catastrophe on Iraq and its peoples. From an early age, he had enjoyed inflicted suffering …
Gateway Pundit:
The Death of a Butcher- Saddam Hussein's Final Hours — Update: (10:09 PM EST) SADDAM IS DEAD!! Al Arabiya TV, Drudge, and BBC … BBC reports on the news VIDEO HERE — The other two defendants condemned to death were also executed. (More- reports are that the other two had their executions postponed.)
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Vinnie / The Jawa Report:Saddam Meet Satan, Satan, This Is Saddam
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Kristin Longley / Associated Press:Iraqi-Americans pray for Saddam's death
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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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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.
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
AT&T Concedes to Net Neutrality — One of the things I've learned is that building an open and neutral communications environment is a slugfest, a game of inches. America has a top-down mass communications environment and a populace that is used to being marketed to.
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Les Neuhaus / Associated Press:
Islamic leader vows to stay in Somalia — AFGOYE, Somalia - The U.N.-backed Somali government on Friday moved swiftly to assert authority over the capital city Islamic fighters abandoned the day before, though the leader of the insurgents vowed they would continue to fight.
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