More coverage: Saddam Hussein execution

Iraqi suicide bomber targets home of Iraqi police commissioner who was in US detention

BAGHDAD (AP) _ A suicide bomber blew herself up Monday among police officers who were celebrating the release of a comrade from U.S. custody, killing at least 22 people, Iraqi officials said. Separate bombings in Iraq killed 13 other people.

Timing of execution could fuel divisions

The timing and drama surrounding Saddam Hussein's execution makes it likely that he will become a martyr for Sunni nationalists fighting U.S. forces and the new Iraqi government.

Analysis: Dictator's history of miscalculation

Saddam Hussein confounded the world with a weapons program he did not have, an army that did not fight and a well-planned resistance that may yet help defeat the world's greatest power.

The portrait of a dictator

For two decades, the most common feature of Iraq's barren landscape were heroic portraits of Saddam Hussein. He appeared as a Bedouin riding a white horse, a revolutionary in a black beret or a devout Muslim with his head bowed in prayer.

Mixed emotions on LI to Saddam's execution

For Dorine Kenney of Bay Shore, the public hanging of Saddam Hussein Friday night brought no comfort.

Statement by the President

Today, Saddam Hussein was executed after receiving a fair trial -- the kind of justice he denied the victims of his brutal regime.

The fight for civil rights

civil rights, timeline, history, living to tell The local and national struggle

Forty-eight years after the Greensboro sit-in sparked a movement, we reflect on local leaders, then and now, doing their part to push for equality.

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