Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein was dead by hanging just before dawn on Friday December 29, 2006 during the morning call to prayer. CNN reported that a video showed Hussein, dressed in a black overcoat being led into a room accompanied by three guards. The video reportedly showed the execution to the point where the noose was placed over Hussein’s head and was then cut off. An Iraqi official who witnessed the death claimed that the former Iraqi president was “strangely submissive” to the process.” Iraq’s national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, told Iraqi television: “He was a broken man. He was afraid. You could see fear in his face.”