Hussein hanged in IraqFormer Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged on December 30, 2006, for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of 148 Shi'ites in the 1980s, sent to the gallows by a government backed by the United States and led by Shi'ite Muslims who had been oppressed during his rule. (Boston Globe, 12/30/06) |
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 AP INTERACTIVE: The Saddam Hussein trial
 PHOTOS: A violent life
His last moments
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World leaders divided over effects of Hussein execution
Saddam Hussein's enemies rejoiced, his supporters seethed with anger, and many Arabs felt outraged at his hanging on one of Islam's holiest days. ()
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Documents connect Hussein to chemical attack on Kurds
(By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times, 12/19/06)
(By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times, 12/19/06)
BAGHDAD -- Prosecutors charging former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with genocide presented potentially damning documents in his trial.
Hussein trial unfair, seriously flawed, rights group says
(By Ross Colvin, Reuters, 11/20/06)
(By Ross Colvin, Reuters, 11/20/06)
The Iraqi court that sentenced Saddam Hussein to hang was guilty of shortcomings so serious that a fair trial for the former president was all but impossible, Human Rights Watch said.
In Iraq, Hussein trial seen in personal light
(By Anne Barnard, Globe Staff, 10/20/05)
(By Anne Barnard, Globe Staff, 10/20/05)
BAGHDAD -- Across Iraq, people watched the first day of Saddam Hussein's trial through the lens of their own experiences during his long and brutal reign.
Prisoner Hussein: Found in pit, ex-dictator goes quietly
(By Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff, 12/15/03)
(By Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff, 12/15/03)
Saddam Hussein, the dictator who ruled Iraq with an iron fist for nearly a quarter-century before his regime was toppled by a US-led invasion, was captured without a fight by American troops.
HUSSEIN CAPTURED | PROFILE: Capture may shatter great-man myth
(By Mary Leonard, Globe Staff, 12/15/03)
(By Mary Leonard, Globe Staff, 12/15/03)
WASHINGTON -- Image was everything to the dirt-poor boy who became a murderous dictator and obsessively projected infallibility, fortune, and an iron fist.
Lives of desperation in Iraq
(By Anthony Shadid, Globe Staff, 10/29/02)
(By Anthony Shadid, Globe Staff, 10/29/02)
Every morning like clockwork, an instrumental version of the Beatles' song "Yesterday" forms part of the medley of 20-year-old elevator music echoing off the marble floors of the dreary and slightly threatening halls of the once-illustrious Al Rasheed Hotel.
Surviving Saddam's War on Kuwait
(By Michael Kelly, Special To The Globe, 3/1/91)
(By Michael Kelly, Special To The Globe, 3/1/91)
Two days before Iraq invaded Kuwait, the incredibly wealthy Marafie family took stock. Obviously the Iraqis were coming. Obviously it would soon become difficult to live in proper comfort.
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