 Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging after three years in U.S. custody before dawn Saturday in Iraq, which was just before 10 p.m. Friday EST. He was convicted of murder in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from an Iraqi town where assassins tried to kill Saddam in 1982. Saddam struggled briefly after American military guards handed him over to Iraqi executioners. CBS News correspondent Randall Pinskton reports that he was shouting, 'long live Islam' and 'down with the West' and he showed no remorse. But as his final moments approached, he grew calm. He clutched a Quran as he was led to the gallows. In one final moment of defiance, he refused to have a hood pulled over his head before facing the same fate he was accused of inflicting on countless thousands during a quarter-century of ruthless power. Although Saddam carried a Quran with him, senior Brookings Institution fellow Michael O'Hanlon told the The Saturday ...
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