BAGHDAD : Muslims in their thousands, both inside and outside war-torn Iraq, lashed out on Monday at the country's Shiite leaders as well as the United States for executing Saddam Hussein during one of Islam's holiest periods.
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Timing of Saddam execution risks Arab backlash: analysts
31 December 2006
CAIRO : Images of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein being led to the gallows on one of Islam's most important feast days risk further alienating public opinion in an Arab world already bristling at perceived Western insensitivity, analysts warned.
Even the West's leading Middle East allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, publicly spoke out against the choice of the first day of the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice to put Saddam to death.
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Sofia. A journalist is reported to have been kidnapped by masked gunmen in the Gaza Strip, Deutsche Welle informs. Palestinian security sources said a photographer working for the French news agency Agence France Presse or AFP was apparently abducted by five armed men outside Gaza City offices.
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n102530
Same incident, different source info:
Photographer kidnapped in Gaza
Jaime Razuri was kidnapped as he entered his office in Gaza City [AFP] A photographer from a French news agency has been kidnapped in Gaza, according to witnesses. Agence France-Presse photographer, Jaime Razuri, a 50-year-old Peruvian national, was seized in Gaza on Monday by unknown armed men as he entered the agency's offices in Gaza City, AFP reported two witnesses as saying.
Hamman Al Faghawi, a translator with AFP, said: "We got out of the jeep. I heard the noise of weapons. I turned around and I saw two unmasked men. They pointed their weapons at Jaime and at me." "They told me to shut up and took him away in a Subaru car," he said.
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