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Bursts of celebratory gunfire went up as dawn broke in Baghdad, where news of Saddam Hussein's execution reached people as they awoke.? After the echoes of the shots faded, people went to their televisions and waited for the images to come.? Everyone was certain the Iraqi government would air some kind of footage from the execution.? Failure to do so would only open the door to years of conspiracy theories about how Hussein somehow slipped away and remained alive.? By midday, screens across Iraq carried Hussein's last moments.? There was Hussein atop the gallows, surrounded...
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...voices ranging from German leftists to the Pope expressed disgust at both the execution and the way it was carried out.? But Iraqis were unfazed by the spectacle, which seemed mild by comparison to scenes of street violence that play out everyday here.? For many Iraqis, the sight of Hussein as a dead man walking simply cast his shrinking persona deeper into a past that seems more distant all the time...
...Iraqis expressed a mix of opinions about Hussein's execution in the hours afterward as a clear, bright day settled over Baghdad...