Breaking News: Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
executed 2006-12-30
11:01:50
Special Report: Execution of
Saddam
Special report: Tension escalates in
Iraq
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Iraq's southern Shi'ite
city of Kufa hit by several car explosions on Saturday morning, causing
casualties, CNN reported.
The bombs were believed to have caused big
casualties, a witness from Reuters was quoted as saying, adding ambulances
and police rushed to the scene.
No more details are available at the moment.
The incident occurred hours after the execution of
former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Saddam was executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m.
(0300 GMT) on Saturday.
Related:
Car bomb kills 30, wounds 45 in S Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 30 people were killed and more than 45 others wounded when a car bomb went off at a busy market in Kufa town near the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.
Saddam executed by
hanging
 |
|
Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
reacts in court during the Anfal genocide trial in Baghdad December 21,
2006. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
Photo Gallery
>>> |
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Former Iraqi president
Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging shortly before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on
Saturday, U.S.-backed Iraqi TV Al Hurra reported.
"The execution of Saddam Hussein is complete," Iraq
state run Iraqiya television said.
But so far, there has been no confirmation from the
Iraqi government. Full story>>
Iraqi officials: Saddam executed
alone
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Some Iraqi officials at
the scene said Saturday morning that only Saddam Hussein was executed at dawn,
denying earlier media reports that two Saddam's aides were also executed,
reported the state TV station Iraqiya.
Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, National Security Adviser, told
Iraqiya that the two co-defendants of Saddam, his half brother and intelligence
chief Barzan Hassan al-Tikriti and revolutionary court judge Awad Ahmed
al-Bandar, would be executed after the Eid al-Adha holiday, which ends on
Thursday. Full
story>>
