Pictures of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with a noose around his neck were broadcast by Iraqi national television.
He had ruled his people with an iron fist after becoming president in 1979 before being toppled by a US led invasion in 2003.
A special court sentenced the dictator to hang. One of his crimes was the massacre of Kurds in Halabja in 1988. An estimated 5000 perished when the city was bombed with chemical weapons. He was executed in December 2006. A decade on is Iraq still v…
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