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...least the White House and the Pentagon, say, all too blithely, that numbers like these are arbitrary and unimportant. But that only highlights the non-numerical false milestones and would-be watersheds they have set up in the past. It is not just statistics that can lie. When Saddam was captured, it was going to break the back of the insurgency. Same when a democratic government was elected, a constitution drafted, a coalition government formed. The latest false milestone is the death of Saddam, another momentous event in the history of Iraq that is unlikely to change a single thing...
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...
...Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein •Saddam Is Sentenced to Death, and Iraq Shrugs...
...Saddam's Revenge •Saddam Tries Another Trial Boycott •Behind the Saddam Judge's Ouster •Saddam's Trial: Behind the Scene •Notebook: Keeping Saddam Company •The Perils of Defending a Tyrant •A Slain Saddam Trial Lawyer's Final Interview •Inside Saddam's Defense Strategy •Rights Groups Concerned Over Saddam Trial •Notebook: Rushing To His Defense •The Semiotics of Saddam •Saddam's Capture •'Ladies and Gentlemen — We Got Him!' Photo Essay • Captured At Last
...Webguide • The Final Days of Saddam Hussein...