It’s Done

Fox News is reporting that the execution of Saddam Hussein has taken place. They are hearing from Al Arabyiah TV in Iraq that Saddam Hussein is dead.

I am sure that the blogosphere is about to light up with commentary. Here is some of the first:

Captain’s Quarters, Babalu Blog, Dr. Sanity, The Jawa Report

10:28pm EST. The first online print report I’ve seen.

Some Arab media, including Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya and the U.S.-financed Al-Hurrah, reported about an hour before daylight Saturday (about 10 p.m. EST Friday) that Saddam had been executed. There was no confirmation from the Iraqi government.

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Saddam and others were convicted of murder in the killings of 148 Shiite Muslims from an Iraqi town where assassins tried to kill Saddam in 1982.

Also to be hanged were Saddam’s half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, the adviser said.

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