In northern Kirkuk, Marwan Ibrahim, a 31-year-old civil servant, said the pictures were a “humiliation for a man who in the near past was the leader of Iraq and a top Arab leader in the region.” Other photos show him clothed and seated on a chair doing some washing, sleeping and walking in what is described as his prison yard. Iraqis gathered in coffee shops in Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq watched as some Arab satellite networks showed the front page of The Sun, with its picture of Saddam Hussein standing in his underwear. “The investigation needs to take place and the president supports that,” Duffy said. With that inquiry ongoing, he would not comment on how the US President George Bush was briefed by senior aides on Friday morning about the photos’ existence and “strongly supports the aggressive and thorough investigation that is already underway” that seeks to find who took them, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said. There were mixed feelings about the photos among Iraqis Do they want to degrade the Iraqi people? Or they want to provoke their feelings,” said Baghdad businessman Abu Barick, 45.
Saddam Hussein is from the past now, so what is the reason for this? It is bad work from the media. “This is an insult to show the former president in such a condition. The sentiments of people on the streets seemed to reflect the divisions now plaguing Iraq. Please don’t ask us to feel sorry for him.” “They are a fantastic, iconic set of news pictures that I defy any newspaper, magazine, or television station who were presented with them not to have published,” he said.Īsked to respond to criticism of the decision to publish the photos, Dudman said: “This is a man who has murdered a minimum of 300,000 people and we’re supposed to feel sorry for him because someone’s taken his picture?” Sun managing editor Graham Dudman defended the decision to print the pictures and defied any media outlet to have withheld publication. He said they were part “of a comprehensive war against the Islamic and Arab nations” that included the abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison and allegations about a Quran desecration at an American prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “We will sue the newspaper and everyone who helped in showing these pictures.” “It is clear that the pictures were taken inside the prison which means that American soldiers have leaked the pictures,” he said by telephone from Amman, Jordan. Photos of captured Saddam Hussein caused controversy Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer, Ziad al-Khasawneh, said his legal team was preparing a lawsuit against the Sun for publishing what he said represented “an insult to humanity, Arabs and the Iraqi people”. The photos not only angered the US military, which issued a condemnation rare for its immediacy, but also were expected to further fuel anti-American sentiment in a country edging toward open sectarian conflict.
The photos prompted an angry US military to launch an investigation and the Red Cross to say the photos may violate the Geneva Conventions.īritain’s The Sun and the New York Post said the photos were provided by a US military official they did not identify.
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