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Newspapers mirror Arab humiliation at Saddam's capture -
Khaleej Times, (AFP)
15 December 2003
CAIRO - Egyptian and other Arab newspapers on Monday mirrored the humiliation and bitterness Arabs feel at how Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops without even putting up a fight.
Governmental, independent and opposition newspapers in Cairo all splashed photographs of a disheveled and bearded Saddam Hussein across their front pages.
People would not have felt such “bitterness” had Saddam been captured by “the Iraqi people themselves who have the right to judge and punish the one who made them experience all kinds of suffering,” wrote the Egyptian government daily Al Akhbar.
“It is deplorable and painful that the announcement of Saddam Hussein’s fall comes from the mouth of (Paul) Bremer, the representative of the American occupier...a fact which causes bitterness,” wrote Galal Duweidar, Al-Akhbar’s editor in chief.
Ibrahim Nafie, the editor in chief of the Egyptian government daily Al Ahram, expressed similar sentiments.
“The image that former president Saddam Hussein gave during his arrest by American occupation forces is a painful and shocking image,” he said.
“It’s an image that no Arab wished the president of one of the most important Arab states,” Nafie said.
“Many Arabs and Iraqis hoped that Iraqis themselves would end his reign,” he said.
The Saudi-owned Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat, based in London but also published in Cairo and other cities, said Arabs “are sad for Iraq and Iraq’s fate” when they see such images.
Hayat editorial writer Ghassan Sherbel said the impression would have been different if Saddam Hussein had resisted or committed suicide.
“History would have been different if the Americans had taken a body and not a prisoner,” he said.
Another editorialist at the newspaper, Abdel Wahab Badrakhan, said many Arabs would have preferred to see his “corpse like those of his sons Uday and Qussay” in July.
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