The People of Iraq are liberated from the Oppressor
arabnews.com
1)“People, if you only knew what this man did to Iraq,” yelled an old man standing in the road, thrashing at a torn portrait of Saddam with his shoe. “He killed our youth, he killed millions.”
2)In the streets of Baghdad, people dared to denounce Saddam as a “traitor!” “torturer!” “dictator!”.
3)“We’re ecstatic to get rid of him after all these years of war and deprivation,” said Dinkha Khosina, joining hundreds greeting US troops racing from Baghdad’s northern entrance to the heart of the capital.
4)“No good Saddam. Very bad, very bad, very bad,” said Iraqis in one crowd in halting but clear English.
5)“Today, we are very, very happy. It is a great day. Saddam is finished. Do you know where he is? Is he dead? He will burn in hell,” said a man holding his young child in his arms.
6)One resident marched up to the heavily armed troops with a symbolic peace offering in his hand. “I couldn’t find flowers so I brought you a palm leaf,” said the man wearing a traditional galabiyah gown.
7)Cheering ecstatically, a crowd of Iraqis danced and trampled on the fallen six-meter high metal statue in contempt for the man who had held them in fear for so long amid the final throes of the three-week war. |
