According to The Corner.

In a heretofore unseen two flashing gumball light announcement, Drudge adds, "SADDAM: THE END... Saddam Hussein executed by hanging, according to Iraqi media reports. More soon...."

As Mona Charen wrote when Saddam was captured by the US three years ago:

Adolf Hitler deprived the Allies of the satisfaction of executing him. Josef Stalin died in his bed. Pol Pot died of natural causes. But Saddam Hussein, that vicious, depraved worm of a man, was plucked from his rathole. Ah the great warrior. The author of the Mother of All Battles. The man who claimed he would drive the "invaders" from Iraq. The man who forced thousands of Iraqis to sacrifice their lives so he could continue his squalid and luxurious spree in his many palaces.
This modern-day Saladin (another of his conceits) didn't even have the courage to kill himself in the end, but submitted meekly, with an offer to "negotiate."

I'd say negotiations have successfully been concluded.

Ed Morrissey adds:

Three Arabic news stations and MS-NBC are broadcasting the report that Saddam Hussein has been executed this evening, right around 10 pm ET.

Right now, without any text reports, MS-NBC is telling viewers that a delegation of seven witnesses saw Saddam hung a few minutes ago. The witnesses included members of the tribunal that convicted and sentenced him as well as a doctor to declare him dead. They also report that the Iraqi government recorded the event, and that the images and/or video will eventually be released to demonstrate that the former dictator and genocidal monster has truly died.

For a brief overview of Saddam's blood-soaked curriculum vitae, click here and here.

Not surprisingly, Pajamas HQ has an extensive round-up of links.

Tim Blair notes that "Saddam’s half-brother Barzan Hassan and former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court Awad Bandar were also executed", and links to a quip by Mark Steyn:

“Just in time for Eid, the Iraqis decided Saddam Hussein was one old acquaintance who really should be forgot.”

But not by former Iraqis now living in Dearborn, Michigan, who are thrilled that their former tormentor is currently receiving his final judgment. As are Iraqis much closer to the situation, according to Ed Morrissey:

MSNBC, which I'm forced to watch in my hotel room, now reports that the Iraqi witnesses to the execution were cheering and dancing around the body of Saddam Hussein.

Can't say I blame them.

Michelle Malkin includes a screen-capture of the handsome send-off CNN is giving Saddam on their homepage, and writes:

Lots of readers are peeved by CNN's memorial tribute to Saddam. Reader Roger writes, "Did Gerald Ford get this much respect on CNN's home page?"

No, of course not. But Jerry just didn't have that radical chic joie de vivre that Hussein had amongst CNN and its own totalitarian-admiring founder, Ted Turner. As for the other American television networks and Saddam, for a flashback as to how ABC and NBC breathlessly covered Saddam's "elections" (in which he routinely received 99.9 percent of the vote), click here. As for CBS, who could forget Dan Rather's infamously cozy early 2003 interview with Saddam, only one month before Saddam was finally, mercifully driven out of power and into his spider hole, by the US.

Compare Michelle's screen capture of CNN's homepage with the graphic that populist champion Fox News is currently using on theirs. Meanwhile, Confederate Yankee explores "What Passes For Intellectual From--where else?--the Huffington Post".

Jules Crittenden, city editor at the Boston Herald, is that seemingly rare commodity these days--a newspaperman who gets it:

CNN reports a witness described "fear on his face." Good. We already knew he was a coward, and we know how many deaths a coward dies.

I've filled my shot brass and raised it. Don't be shy about raising a glass yourself. The world is a better place rid of this filthy murderer.

Indeed.

Hot Air dubs this "your quote of the year":

Witnesses to the execution told NBC News’ Richard Engel that they were cheering around the body of Saddam after the execution.

NBC could hear cheers and celebrations in the background while talking to an official in the prime minister’s office.

“This son of a bitch is lying under my feet...I can’t talk now because of all the cheers!" a witness said.

But, gosh, only four years ago, NBC and ABC told me Saddam was beloved by his people.

Heh--Hugh Hewitt adds that Saddam should have filed his appeal in the Ninth Circuit. Why didn't Ramsey "Jesus was a terrorist" Clark think of that?!

Last Update: "‘I Saw Fear, He Was Afraid’--In a NEWSWEEK exclusive, the man hired to videotape Saddam Hussein’s execution recalls the brutal dictator’s humble final moments", one of which is currently shown at the top of The Drudge Report.