Arab media coverage of Saddam Hussein's execution has reflected sharp divisions between Arabs opposed to U.S. influence in the region and those allied with Washington. The drama of Saddam's violent end was brought into living rooms across the Arab world with television pictures of masked hangmen tightening the noose around his neck. Al Arabiya satellite channel, which was given immediate access to the images by Iraqi state television, ran endless shots of Saddam at the gallows. Al Jazeera followed once it obtained them. The execution was a sequel to the fall of Baghdad in April 2003 when pan-Arab satellite networks relayed scenes of Saddam's statue being torn down in central Baghdad by U.S. troops and delirious Iraqis. "This is the first execution of an Arab leader. It's a new and surprising image for ordinary Arab citizens," said Khalaf Alharbi, editor of Saudi tabloid Shams. "People are confused. This is the end of a tyrant but also of a prisoner of war who fought the West," he added...
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