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Saddam Hussein sits in the dock during his trial on genocide charges in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Monday Sept. 18, 2006. Saddam and six co-defendants are being tried on charges of committing atrocities against Kurds during the Operation Anfal crackdown in northern Iraq nearly two decades ago. The prosecution alleges some 180,000 people died in the campaign, many of them killed by poison gas. (AP Photo/Erik de Castro, Pool)Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal
Originally published at Associated Press