Protests are continuing in the Sunni heartland in Iraq following the execution of Saddam Hussein. The former Iraqi president was hanged at dawn on Saturday by a team of Shiite men wearing ski masks. The execution took place at a base known as Camp Justice. Saddam Hussein was buried on Sunday in his native village of Awja, near Tikrit. He ruled Iraq from 1979 until the U.S. invasion in 2003. He was sentenced to death over the killings of 148 Shiites from the town of Dujail in the 1980s. He was executed before he was ever put on trial for other atrocities.