Reaction to US killings ranges from anger to satisfaction

THE photographs of the bruised and bloodied faces of Saddam Hussein’s sons were all some Arabs needed to be convinced that the two men were killed by the US army, and the reactions ranged from anger to satisfaction.

“I had a few doubts, but now I’m sure that they are dead,” said Ameen Hmoud, a Yemeni Civil Aviation employee. “Their end fits what they did while they were alive. They deserved this death.”

Uday Hussein is accused of murdering and torturing enemies of the regime, as well as Iraqis who simply angered or challenged him. Qusay Hussein was accused of helping engineer the destruction of the southern marshes in the 1990s to crush Shi’ite Muslims living there. Qusay also oversaw Iraq’s notorious detention centres.