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Euro Edition: Morning Papers
Aired December 15, 2003 - 05:48 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Saddam Hussein's capture is the big news overseas this morning, as well as here in the States. So let's head live to London and check in now with Hala Gorani. She has our 'Euro Edition' this morning.
So, what are the headlines reading this morning -- Hala?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're not playing guess the lead this morning, because really it would be just a bit too easy here in the newsroom. Obviously, as you can imagine, on every single front page of every single newspaper from every country in Europe, the face of Saddam Hussein. His picture, unshaved, looking like this, the first few pictures we saw yesterday in astonishment when we were looking at the former Iraqi leader with this grown beard.
The tyrant is now a prisoner. This is the left leaning "Independent" saying, cautioning though, that this does not mean that the capture will stop the insurgency in Iraq. And saying that he left his mark on history as the man who destroyed his own country.
The right leaning "Daily Telegraph," we got him, the words of L. Paul Bremer in Baghdad yesterday, reproduced here on the front page. A good way to judge the pulse of the nation, a barometer of how U.K. public opinion, because this is the best selling right leaning paper in Britain, "The Sun." Ladies and gentlemen, we got him, again, the words of Bremer on the front page.
Left leaning "Daily Mirror" tabloid the "Daily Mirror," ace in the hole and a picture of Saddam Hussein as he was found when he was retrieved from the hole underground there with his grown beard before he was shaved.
Then we have Saddam the prisoner. "The Guardian," another picture there taken from a television screen it looks like. Saddam, the prisoner, Iraqi leader found in tiny underground chamber. Six hundred soldiers used to track him.
And in "The Times," I have to say, this is one of the interesting things I saw, "The Times" obviously has a picture of Saddam Hussein on the cover. But inside when you look, "The Times" of London, there the reproduction of an interview with one of his daughters, his eldest daughter, Raghad. She is 36 and lives in Jordan. I wish I never lived to see this day come. She says she was distraught. She was talking on al-Arabiya television.
But if you remember, she is one of the daughters whose husband was killed by her father when they were lured back to Baghdad in '95. So perhaps surprising words of sorrow from that particular daughter.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Really difficult to understand.
Hala Gorani, many thanks, live from London this morning.
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Aired December 15, 2003 - 05:48 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Saddam Hussein's capture is the big news overseas this morning, as well as here in the States. So let's head live to London and check in now with Hala Gorani. She has our 'Euro Edition' this morning.
So, what are the headlines reading this morning -- Hala?
HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're not playing guess the lead this morning, because really it would be just a bit too easy here in the newsroom. Obviously, as you can imagine, on every single front page of every single newspaper from every country in Europe, the face of Saddam Hussein. His picture, unshaved, looking like this, the first few pictures we saw yesterday in astonishment when we were looking at the former Iraqi leader with this grown beard.
The tyrant is now a prisoner. This is the left leaning "Independent" saying, cautioning though, that this does not mean that the capture will stop the insurgency in Iraq. And saying that he left his mark on history as the man who destroyed his own country.
The right leaning "Daily Telegraph," we got him, the words of L. Paul Bremer in Baghdad yesterday, reproduced here on the front page. A good way to judge the pulse of the nation, a barometer of how U.K. public opinion, because this is the best selling right leaning paper in Britain, "The Sun." Ladies and gentlemen, we got him, again, the words of Bremer on the front page.
Left leaning "Daily Mirror" tabloid the "Daily Mirror," ace in the hole and a picture of Saddam Hussein as he was found when he was retrieved from the hole underground there with his grown beard before he was shaved.
Then we have Saddam the prisoner. "The Guardian," another picture there taken from a television screen it looks like. Saddam, the prisoner, Iraqi leader found in tiny underground chamber. Six hundred soldiers used to track him.
And in "The Times," I have to say, this is one of the interesting things I saw, "The Times" obviously has a picture of Saddam Hussein on the cover. But inside when you look, "The Times" of London, there the reproduction of an interview with one of his daughters, his eldest daughter, Raghad. She is 36 and lives in Jordan. I wish I never lived to see this day come. She says she was distraught. She was talking on al-Arabiya television.
But if you remember, she is one of the daughters whose husband was killed by her father when they were lured back to Baghdad in '95. So perhaps surprising words of sorrow from that particular daughter.
Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Really difficult to understand.
Hala Gorani, many thanks, live from London this morning.
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