Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq, was hung in Baghdad in 2006 at the age of 69.
Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging on the morning of Eid al-Adha, December 30, 2006, for crimes against humanity. It is a day that will live on in the minds of Iraqis who witnessed their brutal tyrant walk to the gallows and have a rope tightened around his neck. Hussein, who controlled Iraq from 1979 until his downfall and arrest by a US-led coalition in 2003, was charged of perpetrating multiple killings during his reign by an Iraqi court. These included the killing of Shias in Dujail in 1982 and the Halabja massacre in 1988, in which he deployed chemical weapons against a Kurdish community that dared to rebel against him.
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