The ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who was executed by hanging at
dawn yesterday, will be buried in Ramadi, an insurgent stronghold, instead of
native village of Uwja, Sky News English TV channel reported last night.
The TV channel said that Saddam's family had decided to bury the executed
ousted Iraqi president in the city of Ramadi, a Sunni insurgent stronghold.
The city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, will be instead of Uwja,
where Saddam's two sons Uday and Qusay were buried after U.S. troops killed them
in 2003, to be chosen by Saddam's family to bury Saddam Hussein.
Earlier, a senior provincial official told Xinhua that the body of Saddam
would be handed over to his tribal leader on Saturday night, to be buried in his
village of Uwja on Sunday morning.
However, deputy governor of Salahudin province Abdullah Jabara had told
Xinhua by telephone that his province would not send representatives to attend a
burial of Saddam in Baghdad, insisting that the executed leader should be
interred in Uwja village where his sons were buried in 2003.
