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December 31, 2006
You know Your Country is in Trouble When
A deadly death toll near 100 from mass violence is reported as a sign that things are not out of the ordinary:
Iraqis awoke Saturday to television images of a noose being slipped over Saddam Hussein's neck and his white-shrouded body, the pre-dawn work of black-hooded hangmen. They went to bed as new video emerged showing Saddam exchanging taunts with onlookers before the gallows floor dropped away and the former dictator swung from the rope. ...There was no sign of a feared Sunni uprising in retaliation for the execution, and the bloodshed from civil warfare was not far off the daily average 92 from bombings and death squads.
Posted by zeynep at December 31, 2006 02:39 PM