WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: Iraqi Tribunal Sentences Saddam And 2 Co-Defendants To Hang For 1982 Killings: "Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single town, as the ousted leader, trembling and defiant, shouted 'God is great!'
As he, his half brother and another senior official in his regime were convicted and sentenced to death, Saddam yelled out, 'Long live the people and death to their enemies. Long live the glorious nation, and death to its enemies!'
Some feared the verdicts could intensify Iraq's sectarian violence after a trial that stretched over nine months in 39 sessions and ended nearly 3� months ago.
Clashes immediately broke out Sunday in north Baghdad's heavily Sunni Azamiyah district. Elsewhere in the capital, celebratory gunfire rang out."
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