His neck and part of the shroud have what appear to be bloodstains. His eyes are closed. The government did not impose a round-the-clock curfew as it did last month when Saddam was convicted to thwart any surge in retaliatory violence.
It was a grim end for the year-old leader who had vexed three U. Despite his ouster, Washington, its allies and the new Iraqi leaders remain mired in a fight to quell a stubborn insurgency by Saddam loyalists and a vicious sectarian conflict. At least 2, members of the U. Violence follows execution Within hours of his death, bombings killed at least 68 people in Iraq, including one planted on a minibus that exploded in a fish market in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad.
But people in the Sunni-dominated city of Tikrit, once a power base of Saddam, lamented his death. Police blocked the entrances to Tikrit and said nobody was allowed to leave or enter the city for four days.
Despite the security precaution, gunmen took to the streets of Tikrit, carrying pictures of Saddam, shooting into the air, and calling for vengeance.
Security forces also set up roadblocks at the entrance to another Sunni stronghold, Samarra, and a curfew was imposed after about people took to the streets protesting the execution of Saddam. A couple hundred people also protested the execution just outside the Anbar capital of Ramadi, and more than 2, people demonstrated in Adwar, the village south of Tikrit where Saddam was captured by U. Officials wanted to reserve the occasion for Saddam alone.
Sami al-Askari, the political adviser of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, told the AP that Saddam initially resisted when he was taken by Iraqi guards but was composed in his final moments. A senior local official said that Justice Minister Haidar al-Zamili was present at the executions.
Iraq executed at least 88 people last year , up from 26 in Those put to death on Thursday are believed to have been mostly Iraqi citizens, though one report suggests one may have held Swedish citizenship. On 10 December, the Iraqi government declared the conflict with IS over after ousting the group from the areas of northern and western Iraq it began occupying in Iraq hangs 36 men over massacre.
Iraq executes 26 for 'terrorism'. Nine years ago, on November 26, 10 heavily-armed terrorists sailed into Mumbai from Karachi and ran rampage through the city, killing and wounding over Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said that Narendra Modi government would not let "countrymen hang their heads in shame" and would "act without announcing", as he spoke on India's response to Pakistan-based terrorists attacking Indian security forces and the mutilation of two soldiers recently.
Pakistan today hanged four more "hardcore" Taliban terrorists convicted of "heinous" terrorism-related offences by controversial military courts, taking the number to over since the Peshawar terror attack in Taliban terrorists publicly hanged a university student after accusing him of killing a senior intelligence officer, Afghan officials said Saturday.
Prison authorities in Bangladesh's southern city of Khulna on Sunday executed a senior Islamic terrorist whose banned group has been linked to the murder of foreign hostages, police said. The father of the man suspected in the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey called the FBI in to say his son was a terrorist but later retracted it, saying he meant the young man was hanging out with gangs and acting like a thug, a law enforcement official said Tuesday.
The Delhi Police is searching for three JNU students allegedly involved in organising a controversial event on February 9 on the university campus. The event was organised to protest the hanging of Afzal Guru, convicted for the terrorist attack on Parliament House on December 13,
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