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AP - Saddam Hussein struggled briefly after American military guards handed him over to Iraqi executioners. But as his final moments approached and masked executioners slipped a black cloth and noose around his neck, he grew calm.
AP - President Bush called Saddam Hussein's execution a milestone on Iraq's road to democracy, but warned it will not halt the bloodshed and political discord splitting the country.
AP - Bombings killed at least 68 people in Iraq on Saturday, including one planted on a minibus that exploded in a fish market in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad.
An apparently defiant Saddam Hussein argued with guards leading him to the gallows Saturday, one witness said. Another official said the ex-dictator was "a broken man" before he was hanged for his role in a 1982 massacre. Iraqi TV later showed Hussein's body, but there is doubt over where it will be buried.
The U.S. military announced the death of two more American soldiers Saturday, raising the number of American personnel killed in Iraq this month to 108 and making it the deadliest month of 2006.
President Bush, able to claim few victories in the war in Iraq, issued a satisfied but measured statement about 90 minutes after former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed.