The uproar over the execution of Saddam Hussein continues to spread, as does the video of the execution - now the most watched item on the internet.

While the Americans try to shift the blame for the execution to Iraqi authorities, thousands of people took to the streets in Casablanca on Sunday to condemn the execution of the former Iraqi president.

Organised by the Democratic Confederation of Labor (CDT), the demonstration denounced this "assassination" and decried American occupation of Iraq and the deteriorating situation in Iraq.

Brandishing Saddam Hussein photos, the demonstrators condemned "American terrorism that disdains international law".

Saddam Hussein was executed on December 31, following a death penalty issued on November 5 for the “execution” of 148 Shiites in the village of Dujail (60km north of Baghdad) in the 1980s.


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