article_snippet: former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in 2003 and was executed by hanging in December 2006 after an Iraqi special tribunal found former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity for the mass killing of Shiites and Kurds.
article_snippet: former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein body has been kept in the mausoleum in former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein birthplace, Ouja, since 2007.
article_snippet: led until U.S. forces toppled former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in 2003.
article_snippet: Iraqi media reported last year that His body was removed by loyalists amid fears that His body would be disturbed in the fighting.
highlights_snippet: Hussein's body is understood to have already been removed by supporters .
  