Libya announced today it would erect a statue of Saddam Hussein alongside that of a national hero hanged in 1931.
"The revolutionary committees have decided to erect a statue of Saddam Hussein standing beside Omar Mukhtar on the gallows," it said in a statement.
Mukhtar led the Libyan resistance against Italian occupation.
Libya declared three days of mourning after Saddam's death and cancelled public celebrations around the Eid religious holiday.
Flags on government buildings flew at half-mast. On the eve of Saddam's hanging, the Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gadafy, said the former Iraq leader was a prisoner of war who must be tried by Iraq's invaders, the United States and Britain.
