Saddam faces execution within 30 days

IRAQ’S highest appeals court yesterday upheld the death sentence on Saddam Hussein.

The sentence “must be implemented within 30 days” from today, said chief judge Aref Shahin, who added that “any day could be the day of implementation.”

On November 5, an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam to the gallows for the 1982 killings of 148 people from a Shi’ite muslim town after an attempt on his life there.