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Reflections on an Execution
 
Spotlight On Middle East
Saddam a victim of vendetta?
Saddam Hussein was executed on December 30 at 6 pm local time when Iraqis and all Muslims all over the world were preparing for Eid through prayer and sacrifices.
 
Saddam takes his secrets to the grave
We've shut him up. The moment Saddam's hooded executioner pulled the lever of the trapdoor in Baghdad yesterday morning, Washington's secrets were safe.
 
Judge not lest the judge is judged
Saddam has been put to the gallows. Iraq's most formidable link to the blood and iron of the past thirty years has been removed. The fallen leader was surely a despot.
 

 
   
 
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