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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired December 16, 2003 - 05:46   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Saddam Hussein is dominating headlines all over the world. But what do the papers have to say today?
Liz George live in London joins us for our 'Euro Edition.'

Good morning -- Liz.

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning there, yes.

I'm actually going to slip back very briefly to yesterday. This is in the papers today, but it's a quick look at the pages from the front pages of all the newspapers right across Britain and Europe yesterday. It's being featured in "The Independent." And you can see that every single one of them, very briefly there, you can see that they have all got pretty much exactly the same photograph. There was only one story yesterday, and that just goes and proves that one story. And that's "The Independent" today.

And again, one story across all of Europe's newspapers. Once again, effectively, they are now looking, though, at the place that he was actually found in. The hole in the ground, the "Daily Mirror" is saying, his last palace.

"The Sun," again, absolutely this same photograph there saying satan's grotto there. So all sorts of plays on the headlines, but that's essentially the photograph that we have got across the front pages in Europe today.

And with the story moving on slightly, again, the headlines are moving on a little bit. What next is the big question?

"The Daily Telegraph," good riddance, Saddam. The world is better without you. A look at Bush there and Saddam Hussein after he has actually been shaved.

And again, the editorials really now looking at what are we going to do next, how is he going to be tried and lots of advice there. The Americans must answer serious misgivings about the tribunal there in Iraq by helping them out and giving them a decent amount of advice. That's the sort of tone of the editorials that we are seeing across Europe.

Here we are, "The Independent," Saddam, what happens next? That's the tenor, the tone of all the papers across Europe at the moment. And a lot of them have also got sort of recollections from journalists, as well, who have been in Iraq for a long time, reporting in Iraq for a long time. Robert Fisk, one of them, writes for "The Independent," very well respected and well known, is saying was this really the man with whom I shook hands almost a quarter of a century ago. I spent 24 hours looking again and again at those videotapes. The more I look, the more Saddam turns into a wild animal. Lots of recollections of Saddam, interviews with Saddam pre this and now looking at him, again, after he has been captured. That was Robert Fisk in "The Independent."

And here we are, we've got the "Daily Express" as well, one of their editorials looking at what should happen next. And should Saddam hang, yes or no? Those are the options. Obviously the arguments for and against in some of our newspapers here in the U.K.

Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: And, Liz, what's the general feeling on what should happen to Saddam Hussein in Britain?

GEORGE: Well, the general feeling in Britain essentially is that no, you know, we don't agree with the death penalty, we don't agree with that sort of penalty for anybody, so no he shouldn't. And we have got effectively sort of lots of comments about how he should actually be sent to trial and who should conduct this trial and worries about what will happen if he is actually put on the stand. And sort of comparisons with what's actually happening in The Hague, at the moment, with the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, basically giving him a mouthpiece. To give Saddam such a platform would make a mockery of justice as surely as if Hitler had been brought to the Nuremberg trials. That's actually the editorial in the "Daily Express" -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Interesting. Well I guess it's up to the Iraqis what kind of trial Saddam Hussein will get, at least that's what President Bush is saying.

Liz George, reporting live from London this morning, many thanks.

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Aired December 16, 2003 - 05:46   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 is dominating headlines all over the world. But what do the papers have to say today?
Liz George live in London joins us for our 'Euro Edition.'

Good morning -- Liz.

LIZ GEORGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning there, yes.

I'm actually going to slip back very briefly to yesterday. This is in the papers today, but it's a quick look at the pages from the front pages of all the newspapers right across Britain and Europe yesterday. It's being featured in "The Independent." And you can see that every single one of them, very briefly there, you can see that they have all got pretty much exactly the same photograph. There was only one story yesterday, and that just goes and proves that one story. And that's "The Independent" today.

And again, one story across all of Europe's newspapers. Once again, effectively, they are now looking, though, at the place that he was actually found in. The hole in the ground, the "Daily Mirror" is saying, his last palace.

"The Sun," again, absolutely this same photograph there saying satan's grotto there. So all sorts of plays on the headlines, but that's essentially the photograph that we have got across the front pages in Europe today.

And with the story moving on slightly, again, the headlines are moving on a little bit. What next is the big question?

"The Daily Telegraph," good riddance, Saddam. The world is better without you. A look at Bush there and Saddam Hussein after he has actually been shaved.

And again, the editorials really now looking at what are we going to do next, how is he going to be tried and lots of advice there. The Americans must answer serious misgivings about the tribunal there in Iraq by helping them out and giving them a decent amount of advice. That's the sort of tone of the editorials that we are seeing across Europe.

Here we are, "The Independent," Saddam, what happens next? That's the tenor, the tone of all the papers across Europe at the moment. And a lot of them have also got sort of recollections from journalists, as well, who have been in Iraq for a long time, reporting in Iraq for a long time. Robert Fisk, one of them, writes for "The Independent," very well respected and well known, is saying was this really the man with whom I shook hands almost a quarter of a century ago. I spent 24 hours looking again and again at those videotapes. The more I look, the more Saddam turns into a wild animal. Lots of recollections of Saddam, interviews with Saddam pre this and now looking at him, again, after he has been captured. That was Robert Fisk in "The Independent."

And here we are, we've got the "Daily Express" as well, one of their editorials looking at what should happen next. And should Saddam hang, yes or no? Those are the options. Obviously the arguments for and against in some of our newspapers here in the U.K.

Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: And, Liz, what's the general feeling on what should happen to Saddam Hussein in Britain?

GEORGE: Well, the general feeling in Britain essentially is that no, you know, we don't agree with the death penalty, we don't agree with that sort of penalty for anybody, so no he shouldn't. And we have got effectively sort of lots of comments about how he should actually be sent to trial and who should conduct this trial and worries about what will happen if he is actually put on the stand. And sort of comparisons with what's actually happening in The Hague, at the moment, with the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, basically giving him a mouthpiece. To give Saddam such a platform would make a mockery of justice as surely as if Hitler had been brought to the Nuremberg trials. That's actually the editorial in the "Daily Express" -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Interesting. Well I guess it's up to the Iraqis what kind of trial Saddam Hussein will get, at least that's what President Bush is saying.

Liz George, reporting live from London this morning, many thanks.

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