At about 9:30 p.m. Chicago time, Saddam Hussein and his half-brothers Barzan al-Tikriti and Awad al-Bander, were hanged by officials of the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, in the fortified Green Zone, corporate media sources are reporting.
It is early Saturday now in Baghdad. The time for the executions was set in a meeting yesterday between U.S. and Iraqi authorities.
A U.S. federal judge denied a motion by Saddam's lawyers for a stay of execution late Friday. (The judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, is the same judge who agreed with the government and dismissed Guantanamo cases Rasul and Al Odah in 2002.)
At this time, Arab and international news sources are still citing the U.S.-backed Iraqi TV station al Hurra as the only source for the story.
Al-Jazeera's take is here.
The BBC's is here.