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Saddam executed this morning, mixed protests world over MIL/Agencies, Dec 30, 2006. Baghdad, 30 December 2006 - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was hanged early today for his alleged crimes against humanity. The toppled Iraqi leader was executed just before 6 A.M. at the Khadamiyah intelligence centre in Baghdad. It was the same centre where many of his opponents had been executed in previous years. Saddam, 69, put up no resistance as he was led to the gallows but was defiant to the end, refusing to wear a hood and shouting: “God is great.” He carried a copy of Holy Quran. Witnesses to the execution said the former dictator showed “no remorse” before his hands and legs were bound and he was taken to the noose. According to government spokesman Sami Al Askari, Saddam was asked whether there was anything he wanted to say: “No, come no,” he replied. “Just do it.” The former dictator’s body was later clad in white cloth and taken away ambulance and helicopter. His body was then taken to a private reception at Iraq’s prime minister’s office where some of his former victims were able to view it. Jawad al-Zubaidi, who testified in Saddam’s trial, saw the body. He said: “When I saw the body in the coffin I cried. “I remembered my three brothers and my father who he had killed. I approached the body and told him, 'This is the well-deserved punishment for every tyrant.’ “Now for the first time my father and three brothers are happy.” US president George Bush welcomed Saddam’s execution, while Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said Saddam had been “held to account”. Within hours of the former dictator’s execution a massive car bomb exploded at a fish market in the Shiite city of Kufa in central Iraq, killing 30 people and injuring at least 45. Saddam’s execution has also raised fears that British troops will be targeted further by his angry supporters.
The people in Delhi and Lucknow among many other cities, staged protests. The people all over the world were more or less gravely hurt and felt grieved on the execution of Saddam Hussein. Dr. Raj Baldev, Chairman National Integration Assembly (NIA) said in New Delhi today in the meeting of the NIA members, who observed 2 minute silence on his execution, that the world lost a great leader despite his negative deeds. The NIA was not happy against his action in Kuwait, when he destroyed the oil wells, the wealth of the world as a whole. NIA was of the opinion, Saddam Hussein should have been jailed for life rather than executing him and it would have served a good lesson to all concerned. "His execution shall most certainly flare up in Iraq and might take a serious turn. Dr. Raj Baldev said, “ "The after effect of execution of Saddam Hussein might bring Bush’s life come under serious threat. The British and American soldiers in more numbers could also be targeted by the supporters of Saddam. On the whole, the execution was an excessive setence," Dr. Raj Baldev said.
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