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==Trial and Execution==

==Trial and Execution==

[[Image:Saddam6.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Saddam Hussein after his capture, December 2003]]

[[Image:Saddam6.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Saddam Hussein after his capture, December 2003]]

Captured by U.S. forces on December 13, 2003, Hussein was brought to trial under the Iraqi interim government set up by U.S.-led forces. On November 5 2006, a tribunal found him and 6 other co-defendants guilty of charges related to the executions of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites suspected of planning an assassination attempt against him. He was consequently sentenced to death by hanging. Following the sentence being affirmed on appeal, he was executed on December 30, 2006.

Captured by U.S. forces on December 13, 2003, Hussein was brought to trial under the Iraqi interim government set up by U.S.-led forces. On November 5, 2006, a tribunal found him and 6 other co-defendants guilty of charges related to the executions of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites suspected of planning an assassination attempt against him. He was consequently sentenced to death by hanging. Following the sentence being affirmed on appeal, he was executed on December 30, 2006.

==References==

==References==

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[[Category:Iraq]]

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[[category:war criminals]]

[[Category:War criminals]]

[[Category:Middle East]]

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[[Category:Dictators]]

[[Category:Dictators]]