Yemen Recognizes Saddam's Death

San'a, Yemen: It has been well over five years since Saddam's regime was toppled in Baghdad and two years since Saddam himself was hanged to death, yet the government in Yemen categorically denied the events, insisting that this was just a "nightmare" and that the "sword of Arabs" [reference to Saddam] would be back to "march us all toward Jerusalem."

But realizing that that will not happen, in a statement issued by the government and signed by an unknown Yemeni official whose signature did not reveal his identity, Yemen finally came to terms with the events that have been unfolding in Iraq. The statement did not state that Yemen recognizes the new Iraqi government, it merely admitted to the fall of the Saddam government.

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