MORE NEWS FROM IRAQ:

THE new 25-member Iraqi Governing Council savaged the Arab media today for romanticising deposed dictator Saddam Hussein and turning a blind eye to the atrocities he committed against his own people.

“I say this to the Arab media: stop advising the Iraqis to fight the Americans,” Nasseer al-Shadershi, the Sunni Muslim head of the Iraqi Democratic Current, told reporters to a roar of applause. . . .

He scolded the media for ignoring the crimes of Saddam, invoking the 1988 gassing of the Kurds and the brutal supression of the Shi’ite and Kurdish uprising at the conclusion of the 1991 Gulf War.

“Come see the mass graves,” he said, to a furious round of applause.

(Via On The Third Hand).