Moroccan press highlights humanitarian tragedy and lingering of the conflict
Morocco-Iraq, Politics, 3/29/2003

Warns over "the humanitarian tragedy" that may result from the American-British war on Iraq and the lingering of the conflict represented the main headlines of the Moroccan press on Friday.

Maroc Hebdo International argues that American GIs "may further get stuck in the Iraqi quagmire even if Saddam Hussein is no longer in power," and "Baghdad will have managed to hold back such a dangerous and arrogant hegemony."

The same idea was upheld by Aujourd'hui le Maroc in a story headlined "Bush gets bogged down in Iraq and calls for reinforcements." The daily deems that the American president "has already lost his clean war and that the American army hides the number of civilian victims from its public opinion."

Hailing the Iraqi resistance, Liberation stressed that "if Iraqis, many Iraqis, do not particularly like their political regime, they feel the same, if not more, deep-seated hatred for the American administration's arrogance."

"An invasion army cannot establish a legitimate democracy in Iraq," says, on its part, La Vie Eco, underlining that war has just begun and it will definitely not be a picnic for coalition forces.

Moroccan newspapers also dealt with the humanitarian conditions, underlining that "there are growing fears about an impending humanitarian tragedy," said Le Matin du Sahara et du Maghreb.

For Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki, blood baths in several Iraqi cities show that the aggression, after it faced a stiff resistance from Iraqi people, is now targeting civilians.

Echoing the same view, Assahara Al Maghribia comments that "by attacking civilians, the coalition is retaliating against all Iraqis whether military or civilians."

The daily further deplores how the American administration is muzzling American channels to avoid the impact the footages of the terrifying massacres on the American-British public opinion, and to make people believe it is leading a clean war and that its weapons are infallibly accurate.

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