Iraqis must decide
2003-12-14 17:58
Cairo - Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said on Sunday the capture of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was an "important event" and that the Iraqi people should decide his fate.
"One must let the Iraqi people have its word on this important event which amounts to the old regime's definitive outcome," Mussa told reporters shortly after the news broke from Baghdad.
"It's the Iraqi people who must decide the fate of the old regime and its old leaders," especially "after the unacceptable and serious developments discovered after the fall of the regime," Mussa added.
He was referring to the discovery of mass graves.
The Arab League chief added that the Cairo-based organisation would make contact with the interim Iraqi Governing Council "to determine what are their demands and what they want."
- AFP