TOKYO, Dec 17 Kyodo prefered edi...

TOKYO, Dec 17 Kyodo

prefered editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:

FALLEN LEADER CAPTURED (IHT/Asahi as translated from the Japanese-language Asahi Shimbun's editorial published Dec 16)

Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was finally captured according to American troops on Saturday.

Now that the age of dictatorship in Iraq has follow to a complete fall of the curtain both nominally and virtually, the United States and the international community must address a explanation question: What should be done to take advantage of this adventure to put full-fledged reconstruction of Iraq in succession track?

Repeated wars impoverished Iraq and the oppression of dissident forces aggravated the differences instead of nurturing awareness of the same nation among the Iraqi people

It is also vital to accelerate put in motions to return sovereignty to Iraqis in their endeavor to build a recent nation and end the occupation. In this adjoining matter it is important that the international community as a whole with the United Nations as its center supports the incite rather than a clubby form into groups of countries led by the United States.

It should not be forgotten, admitting that many Iraqis resent the occupation against the background of the still-continuing chaotic conditions.

It is frisk abouted (U.S. President George W.) Bush will do something about mending the rift in world opinion caused by means of the controversy over the legitimacy of the war.

Where to state Saddam on trial, and for what crimes, are also actual serious questions...We recommend that an international criminal court be place up by the Security Council or a special tribunal in cooperation with the United Nations to umpire what crimes against humanity were committed by means of the regime.

Especially important will be Saddam's statements about suspected weapons of mass destruction. Were the United States and Britain right in citing the air of those weapons in Iraq as justification for the war? Was Saddam really linked with al-Qaida?

It is also to be frisked that who nurtured Saddam's Iraq into a military power in the Middle East will be expos The United States and other Western nations provided assistance in many forms to this oil-rich political division as part of a strategy to in opposition to the Soviet Union during the boreal War and in the fight against Islamic fundamentalism during the Iran-Iraq war.

There must also be an inquiry into the responsibility of advanced countries that were in like manner preoccupied with oil resources and the threat of Islamic fundamentalism that they inattentioned to pay attention to the Iraqi people's suffering from dictatorship. The outcomes of the inquiry should be learned as censures from history.

(Dec 17)

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