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December 30, 2006. Before dawn, a helicopter carried Saddam Hussein on his final journey. Within hours, Iraq's dictator of nearly three decades would be hanged. But his path to the gallows began years earlier in a small town called Dujail, where an assassination attempt triggered a massacre that would ultimately seal his fate.

July 8, 1982. The summer heat pressed down on the town of Dujail, a Shiite community of 75,000 people located about fifty kilometers north of Baghdad. Iraq was locked in a brutal war with Iran, a conflict that Saddam Hussein had initiated two years earlier and which was now going badly for Iraq. Many of Dujail's men were away fighting that war, leaving behind women, children, and elders. The town had a reputation as a stronghold of the Islamic Dawa Party, a Shiite political organization that opposed Saddam's Sunni-dominated Ba'athist regime and had ties to Iran.