Saddam Hussein: More bad American karma, execution-style
If you only watch American news one would think Iraqis were in the streets celebrating the execution of Saddam Hussein who was hanged for killing 148 Shia civilians. Detroit’s local news even trotted out photos of Iraqi children cheering.
Yet, thousands of Iraqis, Palestinians and Jordanians protested the execution of Saddam Hussein. The protests came after the Iraqi government also shut down an independent television station for “inciting secretarianism.” The US-based rights group Human Rights Watch condemned the hanging, saying history would judge his trial and execution harshly.
His eldest daughter said Hussein is a martyr.
In Hussein’s hometown he was mourned:
Men, women and children sat in queues facing each other in the tents as volunteers served out the bitter black coffee customary during mourning.
