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Mon Nov 6 -

REACTIONS TO
THE SADDAM VERDICT -

Baghdad has been relatively peaceful. There was an early morning mortar barrage in the Dora neighborhood and some rocket and mortar attacks on the primarily Sunni Azamiyah neighborhood:

"Nobody dares to go out. Even inside, we stay in the cellar," said one resident, reached by telephone, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals from Shia militiamen known to target Sunni civilians.

Al Jazeera reported some gunfire in the Sunni Adhimiyah neighborhood soon after the verdict was announced and several mortarshells landing near the Sunni Abu Hanifa mosque there.
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- The UK Times' Ned Parker in Baghdad sent in this dispatch which describe a mixed reception to the verdict.

- And AFP's Jean-Marc Mojon collected mixed reactions to the Saddam verdict from around the Mideast. Not much surprising here.
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Some of the Iraqi Bloggers, especially the younger Sunnis, are having a rough time sorting out their feelings about the whole affair.

# Nibras Kazimi reflects on the Saddam verdict and quotes from a period song evoking the fallen regime.

# In light of the verdict, ToB shares some of his personal memories of growing up under Saddam's regime.

# Riverbend seems to think that hanging a cruel tyrant is just a gimmick. She'll get
over it.

# Richard Engel describes his previous contact with Saddam and compares the deposed dictator then and now.
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