Saddam sentenced to hang

Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity on Sunday and sentenced to hang for the 1982 killing of 148 Shia Muslims in a town north of Baghdad.

Saddam shouted 'God is Great' and 'You are servants of the occupiers — you are traitors,' before Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman of Iraq's High Tribunal finished reading the verdict and sentence.