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Saddam's last message: ‘Do not hate'
9 B6 s* F+ z5 p0 wCHRISTOPHER TORCHIA , Associated Press, 27/12/06 globeandmail.com * ? v" ?; f7 `0 {
. R, M! Z% n! N0 i萨达姆在他最后的信中号召伊拉克人民不要仇恨由美国率领的2003年入侵军队。这封信是在appeals court驳会了他的上诉,命令萨达姆一个月内被处绞刑后一天在一个web Site发表的。
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3 W1 X0 _' k) ~ m信中说,“我号召你们不要仇恨,因为仇恨就会没有公正,仇恨会使人是非不清,不加思考“5 A7 L2 h( j$ Q h0 _/ X9 Y, O
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis not to hate the U.S.-led forces that invaded Iraq in 2003 in a farewell letter posted on a Web site Wednesday, a day after an appeals court upheld the former dictator's death sentence and ordered him to be hanged within one month.
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1 N+ E; ] s( o+ Y/ v# {1 }3 zOne of Mr. Hussein's, Issam Ghazzawi, confirmed to The Associated Press in Jordan that the letter was authentic, saying it was written by Mr. Hussein on Nov. 5 — the day he was convicted by an Iraqi tribunal for ordering the killings of scores of Shiite Muslims in the city of Dujail in 1982.7 t3 F& }" k' C$ g) f# p, ]1 c
7 _6 q) r# g2 p& X) R' C# \. V! _“I call on you not to hate because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking,” the letter said.6 X+ H! h! H' z6 m% T
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Mr. Ghazzawi said the letter was released on Tuesday and published on Mr. Hussein's former Baath Party's Web site on Wednesday. |
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