Seeing pictures of Saddam being beaten with shoes, Yemenis change attitude

Kuwait News Agency ^ | April 11, 2003 | Yahia Al-Haddi

[HAL9000]

SANAA, April 11 (KUNA) -- Some Yemenis who had sentiments of admiration for the deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, now have different feelings toward the man, whose statues were downed and his posters were beaten with shoes in public places in the Iraqi war-stricken capital Baghdad.

Saeed Abdullah, 40, who manages a popular cafe in the heart of the Yemeni capital, said the sudden disappearance of Saddam has become the main topic of daily debates among his customers, and protested that these discussions often heat up and turn into quarrels.

Hamdi Ahmad, a government employee, said, "our sentiments toward him turned into hatred after we saw the Iraqis smashing his posters and statues in Baghdad .. Now we realise that the Iraqis know him better than us."

Tewfic Al-Sabri, 25, a student, said the shift in the public feelings toward Saddam was normal and expected. Saddam, he added, had become popular in Yemen when he had vowed to liberate Palestine and fought Iran. "But it was established that his war on Iran was senselss and pledges were mere empty slogans."

A university professsor, who asked not to mention his name, affirmed that the pictures, broadcast live by television satellite stations worldwide on Wednesday of Iraqis smashing the pictures and statues of Saddam changed the Yemenis' sentiments of admiration toward the man to feelings of hatrede.

[?]urs being glued in front of the television, listening to flat lies of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Al-Sahaf, pledging victory and cursing the coalition forces.

"I was not aware of the fact that the Iraqi people were yearning to get rid of the tyrrant," he said.

Ahmad Al-Wasabi, who runs a store for electronic appliances, has just removed a large photo of Saddam that had decorated his shop. "I no longer view such a dictator with admiration ... We have been baffled and I believe that he is the cause of the crises in the region."

Naef Hassan, political editor of the opposition newspaper, Al-Wadawi, said the general sentiments toward the deposed regime was being transformed in the country as a result of the lies made by the leaders of this defunct regime.

"Many people in Yemen changed their attitude toward Saddam's regime after seeing photos of the man being beaten with shoes on streets of Baghdad." Fathi Abul Nasr, a poet, said he was pleased with the downfall of the regime of Saddam. "The educated elite hates Saddam .. no poet in the world loves Saddam .. poets can't stand dictators."

Abul Nasr said he received e-mails from an Iraqi friend, who has been living in London since nine years ago because Saddam executed many members of her family. She recalled hearing groaning voices of inmates at pain while visiting her imprisoned father, brothers and relatives at an Iraqi prison. Nabil Sabaa, a well-known writer, said the fall of Saddam symbolizes end of Arab leaders known of empty rhetoric and slogans. "Any leader like Saddam will evaporate and forgotten." (end)

[justshutupandtakeit]

Yeah, wait till we hear from Poets for Saddam.

Didn't some guy write poetry in his blood far Saddam or some crap like the Koran?

[justshutupandtakeit]

LoL.

I hear the sound of Lightbulbs going off all over the world but all is silent at DNC headquarters.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Tears too much bump. Finish later.

God I hate the RATS who would sacrifice these people rather than work with Bush.

[Spruce]

Sorry, friend. Here comes the other barrel...

Over 50% of Iraqis are under the age of 20

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A local Iraqi girl shows her enthusiasm for the US being in Iraq with a homemade sign.

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Tracy Wright of the 308th Civil Affairs Brigade speaks to a civil engineer in Ramatha, Iraq, on April 9, 2003. Lt. Col. Wright is gathering information that will help aide the Iraqi people improve its water efficiency and distribution. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineer and various Civil Affairs units are deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kyran V. Adams)

Iraqis share a laugh with a U.S. Army Specialist Michael Toro during an effort to distribute food and water to Iraqi citizens in need. (U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson)

Iraqi children, one holding a white flag, smile at passing by journalists on the main highway leading to Baghdad from the western border with Jordan, in the outskirts of Baghdad on Friday April 11, 2003.

Spc. Donald Dennis from Task Force 2-69 Armor, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning Georgia, waves at children running beside his M1A1 Abrams tank in Baghdad on Friday, April 11, 2003.

United States Marines Lance Cpl. Josh Carbajal takes a sip of some tea offered to him by Iraqi civilians while setting up a defensive perimeter during a patrol of a neighborhood in Baghdad Friday, April 11, 2003.

An Iraqi boy offers some water to a United States Marine of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, while he was out on patrol Friday, April 11, 2003 in a neighborhood near central Baghdad.

United States Marines of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines sign their autographs for some Iraqi children who approached them while on patrol through a neighborhood of Baghdad Friday, April 11, 2003.

Tank Commander Staff Sgt. Terry Brake from Somerset, KY., listens patiently as college student Sama Samira, 21, says that U.S. troops have hurt Iraq by invading it and creating chaos in the streets. She said she supported Saddam Hussein and refused to accept that his government had been toppled.

Sgt. Javier Vila, from Miami, FLa., right, and fellow soldiers cry as they pay their respects at a memorial service for Cpl. Henry Brown in Baghdad Friday, April 11, 2003.

Gen. Tommy Franks talks with Sgt. Lucas Goddard and Sgt. James Ward of the 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, before giving them Bronze Stars for valor in combat. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Joshua Hutcheson

Iraqis cheer the arrival of U.S. Army forces to their neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, April 9, 2003.

Iraqi boys in a village near the city of Najaf in Central Iraq appear glad to be back in school April 4, for the first time since the war started. U.S. Army soldiers from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion helped clean up the school that was damaged by artillery fire. The soldiers also took money out of their own pockets to pay the teacher several months salary in advance. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell

A soldier from the 422nd Civil Affairs Battalion speaks with a boy while bags of rice and wheat are delivered to a village near the city of Najaf in central Iraq on April 4. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell

An Iraqi girl attends to her lessons April 4 in a village school near the city of Najaf. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin P. Bell

An Iraqi boy offers a flower to a British solider during patrols in Basra, April 8, 2003. Photo by Mark Richards, Pool/Reuters

Young girls hold hands as they walk with their father down a street on the outskirts of the town of Al Hillah south of Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

A smiling Iraqi woman holds her baby as a column of U.S. vehicles from the 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor passes through the town of Kerbala south west of Baghdad, April 7, 2003.

A member of 21 Squadron in Britain's 3 Regular Army Air Corps, 16 Air Assault Brigade, walks beside an Iraqi boy near the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.

Iraqi women and children dance with joy as they see soldiers from Britain's 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment enter their village, north of the city of Basra in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003

British Soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade throw chocolate bars from their ration packs to Iraqi children, in the village of Qaryat Nasr north of of the city of Basra, in southern Iraq, April 7, 2003.

Baby W!

Regimental Combat Team 1 gives medical attention to Iraqi civilians who led the Marines to a weapons cache in Aziz, Iraq

An Iraqi boy flashes a victory sign as he walks with U.S. soldiers shortly after they entered central Baghdad, April 9, 2003.

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No captions for these next photos. But they are My Favorites!

[justshutupandtakeit]

No apology those made me laugh.

[lilylangtree]

". . . we realise that the Iraqis know him better than us."

Well, duh!

[Gamecock]

No Blood for Oil, uh, I mean Give Peace a Chance, uh, no, I mean No Racist War, wait: Can't process, must go to DU....</gloating>

[ellery]

bump

[gaucho]

After seeing all these pictures the past couple of days of Iraqi's hitting Saddam's portraits with shoes, I think I'm going to start hitting pictures of Clinton(s), baghdaschle, Chiraq, Putin and others with my shoes!

I have a feeling that is going to become the new way of showing you don't like somebody.

[denydenydeny]

Indexing.

[mvpel]

Those little Iraqi girls are real cuties, just adorable dolls!

[Spruce]

[EaglesUpForever]

"our sentiments toward him turned into hatred after we saw the Iraqis smashing his posters and statues in Baghdad .. Now we realise that the Iraqis know him better than us."

Gives some idea of the responsibility of CNN, Al-Jazeera, etc., who have clearly kissed Saddam's butt throughout their entire existence. The only reason they showed this at all was that it caught them by surprise as they'd believed their own propaganda.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Great picture. Should get some sort of prize.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Marvelous work!

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[Free ThinkerNY]

Great bunch of pictures. Those pictures should be shoved down the throats of every Anti-War Demontraitor.

[piasa]

Truly Amazing. Have these people - including their "university professors" been living UNDER A ROCK or a pile of sand somewhere??????

Not so amazing- until recently many of our people, and particularly our university professors- have lived and in many cases are still living under rocks. I expect our professors to continue doing so for a while, and our peope will gradually slip back too as they forget.

[truth_seeker]

""I was not aware of the fact that the Iraqi people were yearning to get rid of the tyrrant," he said."

If the entire region had free media (papers, TV) people could regularly see both sides of issues. TV is powerful, because about 60 percent can't read.

As it has been, the only side of issues was the "arab-muslims" against the Israel-supporting infidels. I wonder how effective the Voice of America is, could be?

Pictures and words on TV would be a nice technical improvement, perhaps based in Free Iraq. The US credibility has gone way up.

[SkyPilot]

"I was not aware of the fact that the Iraqi people were yearning to get rid of the tyrrant," he said.

Baloney. People like this think they will negotiate with the Almighty upon their death: "Gee God, I didn't know that was wrong!"

God wrote the truth in our hearts, so we have no excuse

[homeschool mama]

**I think we would do well to send a huge batch of shoes to the Middle East. **

My daughter wants to donate her used track spikes. :o)