INDEPTH: IRAQ
What the newspapers said
CBC News Online | December 16, 2003
Egyptians Aladin Al Gen, left, and Abdo Khalil, right, argue over identifying the pictures of the captured former Iraqi Saddam Hussein in Al- Messa newspaper in Cairo, Dec.15, 2003. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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The news of Saddam Hussein's capture came too late for most newspapers' Sunday editions, so they had to wait till Monday to splash the "mother of all mug shots" on their front pages (that description apparently coined independently by the London Daily Express and Fox News in the U.S.).
The picture of Saddam, with his scraggly beard and glazed-over eyes, dominated most newspapers and many of them used staid headlines such as "Saddam captured."
'We got him'
numerous newspapers around the world, including the Toronto Star and National Post in Canada, used this quote from L. Paul Bremer as their headline. So did the website of the U.S. Department of Defence. The words also appeared on the control tower of the Basra airport. Tuesday's covers of Time and Newsweek are expected to sport the quote. The Hindustan Times distanced itself from the quote: "They've Got Him."
'The tyrant is a prisoner'
— The Globe and Mail opts for another quote from Bremer
Hussein caught in makeshift hide-out; Bush says 'dark era' for Iraqis is over
— the ever-succinct New York Times
America catches Saddam napping
— Times of India
No shots, no resistance, Saddam caught 'like a rat in a hole'
— New Zealand Herald, one of many newspapers to use the quote from Maj.-Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division
Hang Him
— London Daily Star
Ace in the Hole
— both the London Mirror and the Drudge Report website use this headline, referring to the U.S. military's deck of cards, which featured Saddam as the ace of spades
A new humiliation for Arabs
— Jeune Indépendant, an Algerian newspaper
American official: Saddam Hussein co-operates and surrenders
— Al-Taakhi, a pro-coalition Iraqi newspaper
Saddam's confession after his arrest
- Al-Messa, Cairo
Arabic newspapers expressed their views on Saddam's capture in editorials, as well
"It is deplorable and painful that the announcement of Saddam Hussein's fall comes from the mouth of Bremer, the representative of the American occupier… a fact which causes bitterness."
— Galal Duweidar, editor-in-chief of Al-Akhbar, an Egyptian government newspaper
"The image that former president Saddam Hussein gave during his arrest by American occupation forces is a painful and shocking image… Many Arabs and Iraqis hoped that Iraqis themselves would end his reign."
— Ibrahim Nafie, editor-in-chief of Al Ahram, an Egyptian government newspaper
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