JEDDAH, 20 October 2005 — The appearance of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in a Baghdad court yesterday (along with seven co-defendants), which is trying him for a 1982 massacre of 150 Shiites in the village of Dujail, evoked mixed reactions among Saudis who gathered around television sets across the country to watch the trial. Yet they all agreed on one thing: That Saddam deserves the punishment that he will get at the end of the trial.
Others in the region would do well to heed this:
Muhannad Ali, a student, disagreed, saying: “Saddam was a dictator, and all dictators have very bad endings. He should have predicted his own end by reading history. If he looked at people before him, like Hitler and Mussolini, he should have known that he was no different from them and that he would have the same fate they had at the end. At least he will stand and face justice. I think at the end he will receive the death penalty.”
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