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Executed former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein was handed over from US custody to Iraqi authorities before dawn Saturday and, within the hour, hanged.
Images and video of Saddam Hussein moments before being hanged and post-execution in Baghdad on Saturday, 30 December 2006 are spreading across the Internet, to mixed reaction of condemnation, jubilation and violence reports Monster and Critics.
Saddam Hussein will be buried Sunday in the same cemetery as his sons, the son of a tribal leader said Saturday.
The U.S. military delivered Hussein's body to heads of tribes and the governor of Salahedin hours after Hussein was hanged in Baghdad reports CNN.
The body was then taken to Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, north of the capital, where members of the Bou Nasser tribe and clerics prayed over it, said a reporter for CNN who saw the body in Tikrit. Watch as Hussein's body lies in a shroud -- graphic content, viewer discretion advised
The son of one tribal leader said Hussein will be buried Sunday at 9 a.m. (1 a.m. ET) in a cemetery in the Awja section of Tikrit.
Hussein remained defiant to the end, arguing with guards and mocking Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr moments before he was hanged, a witness said Saturday.
Saddam Hussein also refused a hood to cover his eyes.
As a noose was tightened around Hussein's neck, one of the executioners yelled "long live Muqtada al-Sadr," Haddad said, referring to the powerful anti-American Shiite religious leader.

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