The Arab Press on Saddam Hussein’s Capture

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The Arab Press on Saddam Hussein’s Capture

George Ziyad
World Press Review correspondent
Cairo, Egypt
Dec. 15, 2003

Iraqis celebrate the capture of Saddam Hussein in Sadr City, a predominantly Shiite slum of Baghdad, Dec. 14, 2003

“What we saw yesterday was the televised unveiling of a 30-year-old lie. A leader surrendered without fighting, the Arab street is stunned, and the Arab media appears to be in a state of shock,” wrote Tareq al-Hamed in London’s Saudi-owned, Pan-Arab daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat on Dec. 15. He was reacting, of course, to the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein."

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