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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...966F1379B6.htm
In New York, the Reverend Jesse Jackson said on Monday that the execution would not make the US safer and would only increase the violence in Iraq.
"Killing him intensifies the violence, reduces our moral authority in the world," said Jackson, who has travelled to the Middle East on peace missions.
"Today we are not more secure. We're less secure. We've missed a moment to appeal to those in Iraq to break the cycle of violence."
The deposed Iraqi president was hanged on Saturday, three years after being captured. He was buried on Sunday.
Jackson, who spoke after preaching at the Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, said Osama bin Laden, not Saddam, was behind the September 11, 2001, attacks.
"Saddam Hussein didn't hit us. Bin Laden hit us," he said. "Iraq didn't hit us. The Taliban hit us."
Jackson said the US was complicit in the trial and execution of Saddam by the Iraqis "because we held him in our custody, and the government in Iraq today is a government subsidised by the US".