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Libya to erect statue of Saddam on gallows

Libya is reportedly to build a statue showing Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi leader executed in Baghdad on Saturday, on a gallows.

It did not say where the statue would be placed.

The official JANA news agency added the Saddam statue will be put up at the same time as another representing Omar al-Mukhtar, the Libyan resistance leader who fought the Italian military occupation and who was executed in 1931, also by hanging.
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