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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wraith: [QB] Arab reaction: [URL=http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=105521]Gulf News[/URL] [QUOTE]Most people welcomed the news, and hoped the former Iraqi president's capture would put a stop to the killings in Iraq and bring peace. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Ms Rizvi, a Pakistani manager and consultant in the automobile industry, said: "The capture of Saddam will not benefit anyone except America. They wanted to capture him and this will not help in anyway the international peace or reconstruction in Iraq." [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Ali Al Jallaf, a UAE government official, said: "Capturing Saddam will not change the current situation in Iraq in any way. The question now is: will the American troops withdraw and hand over Iraq to its people or not?" [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Salahuddin Al Kadiki, a Canadian of Libyan origin, said: "Saddam's capture is a happy end of a sad drama. I hope it will be a peaceful start for a bright future." [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] In Abu Dhabi, Abdul Monem Hariri, a Syrian mobile phone dealer, said: "I don't think the capture of Saddam means the end of the Iraqi resistance and the internal problems in Iraq. Saddam is not Iraq and Iraq is not Saddam. The problem is the US occupation." Tawfiq Gaddah, an old Arab truck driver, was still unable to believe the news. "I don't believe it. The one they showed on television is Saddam's lookalike. Saddam cannot be captured and will never be captured." Rafa Khalil, a Syrian expatriate, said: "It is a happy day� now we all take a rest, the Iraqis and Iraq's neighbours do not have to fear anymore". Palestinian expatriate Abu Baker Abu Qatish said: "This was an eventual end for Saddam like death is a natural end for every human being. "He was bound to get caught and I expected it - but I believe that Saddam had a right to fight for his life. If I was in his shoes I would fight till death." [/QUOTE][URL=http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C5AB7236-8A51-44C4-8A69-79EB38FE69EF.htm]Al-Jazeera[/URL] ;) [QUOTE] "It is happy news but we wish it were the Iraqi people who had captured him, not [US] troops, because this will give Bush a boost in the upcoming election," said Bahraini salesman Husayn Jafar as news of Saddam's capture swept through Arab capitals. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] Saddam may have been seen as a dictator who oppressed his people, but many also saw him as the only Arab leader who stood up to the US, which they said rode roughshod through the region. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] "It's a black day in history. I'm saying so not because Saddam is an Arab but because he is the only man who said 'no' to American injustice in the Middle East," said Sadiq Husam, a 33-year-old taxi driver in the West Bank city of Ram Allah. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE] But in Kuwait, occupied by Iraq in 1990-1991, the reaction was one of joy. Some cars honked horns along a seaside road that during the occupation had been lined with Iraqi army positions. "We are so happy they got him," said Kuwaiti Muhammad al-Hudiab, cruising the Arabian Gulf seafront in his jeep. "The people of Iraq have been brainwashed by the Saddam regime. They need another 20 years to realise that the Kuwaitis are not to blame for the Iraqis' plight." [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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