Following 9/11, “Mainstream media and governments all over the world condemned the attacks. Middle Eastern countries, including Iran and Libya, were among them. Iraq, however, did not denounce the terrorists’ actions. In a barbed reaction [on September 12, 2001], the official newspaper, Al-Iraq, described the attacks as ‘a lesson for all tyrants, oppressors and criminals.’ ”
– Deepak Tripathi, Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan, Page 33