Talabani: War ended tyranny
19/03/2008 22:01  - (SA)  

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Baghdad - The US-led war on Iraq ended the brutal era of torture and tyranny under the rule of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Wednesday, the eve of the conflict's fifth anniversary.

"The brutal regime of the dictator fell ... the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny," said Talabani on Wednesday.

During Saddam's iron-fisted rule, the prisons were full of "innocent prisoners," said Talabani, a Kurd.

"These cells were Saddam's theatres for torture and brutal crimes."

On Thursday, Iraq marks the fifth anniversary of the US-led war that toppled Saddam's regime, but also plunged the nation into chaos and bloodshed.

 

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