Execution unites country
Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki has said his government could review relations with any country which criticised the execution of ex-leader Saddam Hussein.
Mr Maliki said the hanging was a "domestic affair" for the benefit of Iraq's unity, adding that the former president had received a fair trial.
Execution divides country
The revulsion which was felt in the West and among Sunni Muslims has grown even greater. Yet so has the sense of triumph among Shias in Iraq and elsewhere. In death as in life, Saddam continues to divide his enemies.
His execution has acted like an explosion along the seismic fault-line between the two leading forms of Islam.
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