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Asia worried about fallout
Key Asian nations said they respected Saddam Hussein's execution yesterday as a legal move by Iraq's new government, but worried that his hanging would worsen the bloodshed in the country.
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The final hours of a tyrant
Saddam Hussein's death warrant was signed last night. It happened as the nightly curfew brought Baghdad, the city where he exercised supreme power over Iraq for a quarter of a century, to a standstill.
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The questions that will live on
So why did George Bush decide to invade Iraq? Nearly four years and hundreds of thousands of casualties later, the reasons appear both as obvious and as elusive as they were in the spring of 2003.
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US welcomes, Europe opposes execution
The United States joined its arch-foe Iran on Saturday in hailing the justice of Saddam Hussein's execution, but European powers opposed the use of capital punishment even though they condemned the former
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Iraq's shallow justice
The imminent execution of Saddam Hussein and two other former Iraqi officials marks a further step away from respect for human rights and the rule of law in a deeply polarised and violent Iraq.
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Daughters react with grief
Saddam Hussein's two older daughters, who live in Jordan, reacted with grief and stoicism Saturday to news of his hanging, one of the former Iraqi dictator's lawyers in Amman said.
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