BAROUD: Arabs' Love and Hate for Saddam Hussein

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Arabs' Love and Hate for Saddam Hussein

January 22 2007
Counterbias.com
by Ramzy Baroud


Amid the anticipation and strange secrecy regarding the day of Saddam Hussein’s execution, images of his lifeless body after his hanging flooded the internet, while the world media seemingly and conveniently forgot the tenants of international law regarding such images. Even such photos plagued my screen on Al-Jazeera that morning.

Later, scenes of Iraqi Shia groups firing guns and dancing in the street presented a sensational image similar to the staged collapse of Saddam’s statue in Baghdad years before.

Something seemed terribly wrong in this so-called act of justice.

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