Hussein’s Photograph Makes Page 1 Again
The Baghdad Observer, the Iraqi government’s English-language daily, Monday changed its new policy on front-page photographs of President Saddam Hussein.
Earlier this month, the editorial staff decided not to carry Hussein’s picture unless the president had done something newsworthy the previous day.
But Monday it ran a photo with a caption reading only “President Saddam Hussein.” The president’s name did not appear anywhere else in the four-page newspaper.
No editorial staff member was available to explain the new policy.
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