Saddam buried in home village (Reuters)

Footage from Al Iraqiya television shows masked executioners putting a noose around former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's neck moments before his hanging in Baghdad December 30, 2006. Hussein was hanged for crimes against humanity at dawn on Saturday, a dramatic, violent end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before he was toppled by a U.S. invasion four years ago. IRAQ OUT (Al Iraqiya - IRAQ/Reuters)Reuters – Saddam Hussein was buried in the dead
of night in his home village in northern Iraq, where his body
was washed and covered in a white shroud in observance of
Muslim rite by a small group of fellow tribesmen.