“Saddam Hussein, the dictator who led Iraq through three decades of brutality, war and bombast before American forces chased him from his capital city and captured him in a filthy pit near his hometown, was hanged just before dawn Saturday [December 30, 2006] during the morning call to prayer.”
– Marc Santora, James Glanz, and Sabrina Tavernise, “Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence is Hanged for Crimes Against Humanity,” The New York Times, Dec. 30, 2006