Zimbabwe's largest newspaper The Herald on Tuesday carried an analytical article describing the execution of former Iraq president Saddam Hussein as an act of desperation by the United States as the puppet government it imposed on Iraq fails to manage affairs in the country.

Political analysts in Zimbabwe said the execution confirms the long widely viewed opinion that America wanted to bully weaker nations for its selfish gains, the newspaper said.

Godfrey Chikowore of the University of Zimbabwe's Institute of Development Studies said the execution was a defective act committed against a former leader of a developing country.

"It's cruelty against heads of states of the developing world, because instead of execution, there could have been an alternative, " he said.

Political analyst Tafataona Mahoso said both the British and the Americans had nothing to gain from the killing of Saddam, adding that the execution was also a desperate attempt to intimidate third world leaders who want to stand up against imperialism but added such leaders would not be intimidated.

"This execution is an act of desperation because the government put in Iraq by the occupying forces has failed to manage. This execution will incense most third world leaders," he said.

Mahoso said Saddam's execution was a tragedy to Americans who wanted to project a clean image of their country. "The execution is not going to stop anything. The execution images are going to attract the sympathy of the world against the United States and Britain," he said.

The former Iraq leader's execution has been widely condemned in different parts of the world, the newspaper said.

Source: Xinhua