“Long live Iraq! Long live the Iraqi people! Down with the traitors!”

Death Penalty for Saddam Hussein http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6117910.stm (BBC News online)
Reaction on being sentenced to death, November 5, 2006.

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