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Execution Of Saddam Hussain.
Saddam was executed by hanging at approximately 06:00 local time (03:00
GMT) on 30 December 2006, the day Sunni Iraqis begin celebrating Eid
al-Adha. Reports conflicted as to the exact time of the execution, with
some sources reporting the time as 06:00, 06:05, or some, as late as
06:10. The execution took place at the joint Iraqi-American military
base Camp Justice, located in Kazimain, a north-eastern suburb of
Baghdad. Camp Justice was previously used by Saddam as his military
intelligence headquarters, then known as Camp Banzai, where Iraqi
civilians were taken to be tortured and executed on the same gallows.
