Luuleeko joku oikeasti, että Saddamin tappotuomio aiheuttaa lähi-idän "räjähtämisen" tai ns. muka tukijoukkojen mielenosoituksia? Saddam Husseinhan on yksi vihatuimpia henkilöitä lähi-idässä. Omat kansalaisetkaa eivät pitäneet, eikä muiden valtioiden valtaapitävät.
Heh, ai "luuleeko"? Oletko edes tutustunut asiaan yhtään? Tiedätkö ketä Saddamin "tukijoukot" edes ovat? Ei välttämättä aiheuta koko Lähi-idän räjähtämistä, mutta ei myöskään paranna Irakin tilannetta.
Shiiat ovat vissiin ainoa kansanryhmä, joka on suht yksimielinen siitä, että Saddam olisi pitänyt hirttää samantien, kun hänet löydettiin. Sunnien mielestä koko oikeudenkäynti taas oli shiiojen juoni oman valta-aseman parantamiseksi. Kurdeista taas löytyy molempia ääripäitä.
Some Sunnis also suspect the trial is an act of vengeance by Mr. Hussein's U.S., Shiite and Kurdish enemies and that a death sentence is inevitable — as will be the backlash.
“In the beginning we were all enthusiastic to watch the trial,” said Mohammed Jassim, a Shiite who fled Iraq for Egypt and follows the proceedings on Arabic satellite TV stations. “Now it has become really unbearable to watch... They are airing it to hide all the murder, plunder and sectarian strife going on in the country.”
“Violence and killings will increase and Saddam will turn into a national hero among Sunnis,” said Ibrahim Khalid, 52, a Sunni from Baghdad's Azamiyah district, where many people still support the ousted 69-year-old president.
“Hanging is too good for him,” said Saad Mindil al-Garaawi, 39, a Shiite lawyer in Diwaniyah whose father and brother were executed for opposition to Saddam in 1988. “We demand they hang him as soon as possible.”
“This is a plot by the Shiite government,” said Mazen Mahmoud, a Kurd who fled Baghdad for the Kurdish-ruled area in the north. “The whole trial is rigged.”
Whatever opportunity the trial presented to heal the nation's wounds was drowned out in the wave of Sunni-Shiite killings, which began soon after Mr. Hussein's fall but surged after the bombing of a Shiite shrine in February.
Both communities feel under siege from insurgents, militias and death squads. That may have bolstered Mr. Hussein's image among his fellow Sunnis, willing to trade the chaos of democratic Iraq for the security of authoritarian rule.
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