Last week in a hasty mannor, Saddam Hussein was executed by hanging.  There has been very little said about the fact that the US appointed Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, made a political promise to execute Saddam before the end of the year.  It does smack of a conspiracy to cover up the fact that Saddam gassed the Kurds with weapons supplied by a US Republican Administration.  The following is from a Pakistani news paper, the PakTribune.com: 

The stupidity of the Baghdad puppets beggars belief. First, they commission a kangaroo court which refuses to consider charges relating to the invasion of Iran in 1980, or the gassing of the Kurds or any other event in which the Western powers were complicit.

The farcical trial itself allowed Saddam, in the eyes of the mass of people in the Middle East, to replace the humiliating image of his capture with him as the confident accuser from the dock. The perfunctory dismissal of the appeal and the dossier of complaints from international jurists only added to the perception of justice.