Jan 10 2007
The backlash over Saddam
The Jerusalem Post
The backlash over Saddam
Daoud Kuttab, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 9, 2007
It caught many by surprise. The hanging of Saddam Hussein was expected to end an era of tyranny. For years the atrocities of the Saddam Hussein regime were flashed on television screens, spouted by politicians and, lately, displayed in the hastily-established Iraqi courts. Mass graves of Iraqis slaughtered during the Saddam regime were unearthed and have been talked about continuously ever since the fall of the regime.
But all of this seemed forgotten once the former president was hanged.