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A scrolling headline read, "Saddam's execution marks the end of a dark period of Iraq's history". Al Arabiya reported that Saddam's lawyer had confirmed Saddam's death. [36] Major news networks carried official video of the moments leading up to Saddam's execution. The Iraqi government also released pictures of Saddam's dead body in a shroud.
Saddam and his deputies believed that the riots had been inspired by the Iranian Revolution and instigated by Iran's government. [1] In the aftermath of Iran’s revolution, Iraq’s Shiite community called on Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr to be their “Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini”, leading a revolt against the Ba'ath regime.
Many Arabs regard Saddam as a resolute leader who challenged Western imperialism, opposed the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and resisted foreign intervention in the region. Conversely, many Iraqis, particularly Shias and Kurds, perceive him negatively as a dictator responsible for severe authoritarianism , repression, and numerous injustices.
The charges against Saddam included razing 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of Dujail farmland. The source for the figure was an unsourced claim published in a 2005 article in The New York Times . [ 14 ] The claimed area is larger than the total amount of farmland surrounding Dujail, and less than 2% of the city's population had land confiscated or ...
Saddam's security forces entered the cities, often using women and children as human shields, where they detained and summarily executed or "disappeared" thousands of people at random in a policy of collective responsibility. Many suspects were tortured, raped, or burned alive. [38] Many of the people killed were buried in mass graves. [18]
Thus, in 2006, Iraq gained its first fully democratic government in history — and the war continued to get worse. Even the June 2006 killing by American forces of al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al ...
Saddam's plan was to strengthen Iraq's position in the Persian Gulf and on the Arab-world stage. A quick victory would restore Iraq's control over all of Shatt al-Arab, an area which Iraq had lost to Iran in 1975. [43] Saddam abrogated the treaty of 1975 in a meeting of the National Assembly on 17 September 1980.
Muammar Gaddafi, leader of Libya said that "Saddam Hussein was a prisoner of war held by the US occupation forces, and as such should have been tried in the US or Britain, rather than in an Iraqi puppet regime's kangaroo court." Libya declared three days of mourning after Saddam's death and cancelled public celebrations around the Eid religious ...