Amin’s Neighbors Remember the Man They Knew Salah Fareed • Special to Arab News JEDDAH, 19 August 2003 — While reactions to the death of Uganda’s former dictator Idi Amin were mixed in Uganda, residents of the Al-Safa district here responded with sadness to the passing of a popular neighbor whom they remember as a good man. Amin, who died in Jeddah where he sought exile after his government was ousted in 1979, was perhaps the most famous resident of the neighborhood. Saad Al-Harthy had been living next door to the former strongman for the last five years. “He was...