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Tu Nov 7 -

IRAQI BLOGGERS ON
SADDAM VERDICT -

In Zeyad's entry from yesterday, he quotes from the writing of the popular Iraqi writer Shalash Al-Iraqi which he translates. My favorite line is this:

"We came out of Saddam’s night,
but we fell into a well…
when will we come out?"

Zeyad has compiled some excerpts from the reactions of the Iraqi bloggers to the Saddam verdict.

From Zayad's compilation, the squib that resonates with me is from Sami, who is Kurdish, at An Iraqi's Thoughts:

The irony is I sincerely hoped he would apologise, it may sound childish but I thought maybe somewhere along the line he would say he was sorry for the harm and pain that he inflicted upon the Iraqi people and that if he could go back in time he would do things differently.

Sami says he knows this will never happen. But there is a process that goes with that realization... We wish them well.
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Salam Adil has also compiled some
excerpts which are cross-posted at:
:: Global Voices ::
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+ By the way, Mahmood's Den is back up, but, alas, Mahmood says he is "indisposed." At first, I wasn't sure if it was really Mahmood posting the entry, or a govmt agent who had kidnapped him in the course of conducting some plot. But that only happens in movies... right?
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