Wednesday, December 03, 2003

" C'est ça la démocratie de Bush ? Il est venu en Irak pendant deux heures seulement, comme un voleur ", says an Iraqi. (Is this the democracy of Bush? He came to Iraq for two hours only, just like a burglar.) The French newspaper L'humanite has the most revealing account of what happened in Samarra'. An insider tells the paper that it was a small group of Islamic fundamentalists (and they were not supporters of Saddam or even former army people who are resented for not defending the capital), and that they were not after the money. There also were no Fida'iyyi Saddam, he adds.