Saddam Verdict

Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein reacts as the verdict is delivered during his trial held under tight security in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Sunday Nov. 5, 2006. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging.

Iraqi Chief Judge Raouf Adbul-Rahman addresses former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after sentencing him to death during his trial in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging.

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein yells at the court as a bailiff attempts to silence him as the verdict is delivered during his trial held under tight security in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Sunday Nov. 5, 2006. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging.

Saddam Hussein's head defense lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaime, left, addresses the judge prior to the verdict and sentence for his client is read in a court in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks on Iraqi television from the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006 after the guilty verdict in the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang for the 1982 killing of 148 Shiites in the city of Dujail.

Iraqis tear up a poster of Saddam Hussein and his family as the death sentence verdict of former leader Saddam Hussein is delivered, in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang, as the visibly shaken former leader shouted "God is great!"

A man holds up a framed image of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as they protest his death sentence verdict in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Nov. 6, 2006. About 150 people marched through Fallujah, a former stronghold of the Sunni insurgency, denouncing the verdict and shouting: "We sacrifice our souls for you Saddam."

Mada Baha, left, Mohammad Al-Alyawi, center, and Ala Baha, play music and dance in the back of Raghib Alali's convertible on Warren Street in Dearborn, Mich., Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006, as they celebrate the verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial.

Iraqis celebrate as the guilty verdict and death sentence for former leader Saddam Hussein is announced, in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006. Saddam was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to hang, as the shaken former leader shouted "God is great!" The poster shows radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his father Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr who was killed by Saddam's regime.

Iraqis hold up images of Saddam Hussein as they protest his death sentence verdict, in his hometown of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang.

Iraqis celebrate after a court delivered a death sentence verdict for former leader Saddam Hussein, in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang, as the visibly shaken former leader shouted "God is great!"

Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam Hussein's half brother and former intelligence chief, reacts in after being sentenced to death during his trial held in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam, Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, head of the former Revolutionary Court, guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced them to hang.

In this image taken from television, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, the former head of Saddam's revolutionary court reacts during the verdict and sentencing in his trial on Sunday Nov. 5, 2006 in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Iraq's High Tribunal found Saddam Hussein, his half-brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim, and al-Bandar guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced them to hang.

In this image taken from television, Ali Dayih Ali, former Baath party official, listens to the verdict and sentencing in his trial on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006 in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Ali Dayih Ali was sentenced to 15 years in prison for torture and premeditated murder. (AP Photo/APTN)

In this image taken from television, Mizhar Abdullah Ruwayyid listens during the verdict and sentencing in his trial on Sunday Nov. 5, 2006 in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Ruwayyid was sentenced to 15 years in prison for torture and premeditated murder.

In this image taken from television, Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid, a former Baath official stands for the verdict and sentencing in his trial on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006 in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Kazim Ruwayyid was sentenced to 15 years in prison for torture and premeditated murder. (AP Photo/APTN)

In this image taken from television, Mohammed Azawi Ali listens during the verdict and sentencing in his trial on Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006 in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. Azawi Ali, a former Dujail Baath Party official, was acquitted for lack of evidence and immediately freed.

Iraqi soldiers enforce a curfew in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City Monday, Nov. 6, 2006, following the sentencing of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on Sunday. Baghdad and two restive Sunni provinces were locked under a 24-hour curfew in the wake of Saddam's death sentence for crimes against humanity, and officials said the clampdown would continue indefinitely.