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BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who was executed by hanging at dawn Saturday, will be buried in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold, instead of native village of Uwja, Sky News English TV channel reported Saturday night.

The TV channel said that Saddam's family had decided to bury the executed ousted Iraqi president in the city of Ramadi, a Sunni insurgent stronghold.

The city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, will be instead of Uwja, where Saddam's two sons Uday and Qusay were buried after U.S. troops killed them in 2003, to be chosen by Saddam's family to bury Saddam Hussein.

Earlier, a senior provincial official told Xinhua that the body of Saddam would be handed over to his tribal leader on Saturday night, to be buried in his village of Uwja on Sunday morning.

However, deputy governor of Salahudin province Abdullah Jabara had told Xinhua by telephone that his province would not send representatives to attend a burial of Saddam in Baghdad, insisting that the executed leader should be interred in Uwja village where his sons were buried in 2003.

BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The body of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who was executed by hanging at dawn Saturday, will be handed over to his tribal leader on Saturday night, to be buried in his village of Uwja on Sunday morning, a senior provincial official told Xinhua.

Saddam's body was shown on TV

A frame grab from Biladi shows former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's body after his execution in Baghdad Dec. 30, 2006. Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity at dawn on Saturday, a dramatic, violent end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before he was toppled by a U.S. invasion four years ago.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- The body in a white shroud of former Iraqi president of Saddam Hussein was shown on Saturday on al-Jazeera English TV channel.

The channel showed Saddam lying with his neck twisted to one side at an awkward angle, with what appeared to be blood or a bruise on his left cheek.

Car bomb kills 30, wounds 45 in S Baghdad

At least 30 people were killed and more than 45 others wounded when a car bomb went off Saturday at a busy market in Kufa town near the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least 30 people were killed and more than 45 others wounded when a car bomb went off Saturday at a busy market in Kufa town near the holy Shiite city of Najaf, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.