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The former president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein was executed at approximately 05:50 +03:00 UTC on December 30, 2006. Two weeks later on January 15, 2007, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti , former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service , and Awad Hamed al-Bandar , former head of the Iraqi Revolutionary Court, were also executed by hanging at this site.
The Hooded Man (or The Man on the Box) [1] is an image showing a prisoner at Abu Ghraib prison with wires attached to his fingers, standing on a box with a covered head. The photo has been portrayed as an iconic photograph of the Iraq War, [1] "the defining image of the scandal" [2] [3] and "symbol of the torture at Abu Ghraib". [4]
The primary news source for the execution was the state-run Iraqi television news station Al Iraqiya, whose announcer said that the "criminal Saddam was hanged to death". 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]
On 12 June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) summarily executed between 1,095 and 1,700 [2] Iraqi cadets near Tikrit.The killings took place during ISIL's Northern Iraq offensive, when the cadets were captured outside of Camp Speicher during their attempt to flee from the area.
By June 2014, according to United Nations reports, ISIL had killed hundreds of prisoners of war [7] and over 1,000 civilians. [8] [9] [10] Specific incidents involving the killing of military prisoners including the mass killing of up to 250 Syrian Army soldiers near Tabqa Air base, [7] and killings that took place in Camp Speicher (1,095–1,700 Iraqi soldiers shot and "thousands" more ...
Mass Graves of Iraq: Uncovering Atrocities, United States Department of State, December 19, 2003; Babies found in Iraqi mass grave, BBC News, 13 October 2004; Iraq: State of the Evidence - Photographs: Mass Graves and Documentary Evidence of Crimes from Saddam Hussein's Regime, Human Rights Watch; Iraq's Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves, USAID
Capital punishment in Iraq is a legal penalty. It was commonly used by the government of Saddam Hussein (who was himself ultimately executed ), was temporarily halted after the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq that deposed Hussein, and has since been reinstated.
The pictures [from] Abu Ghraib represented a setback for America's efforts in Iraq. Simultaneously undermining U.S. domestic confidence in the way in which America was operating, and creating or reinforcing negative perceptions worldwide of American values, it fueled violence".