December 3, 2003	Wednesday	Shawwal 8, 1424

WASHINGTON, Dec 2: The vast majority of Iraqis are deeply mistrustful of the US-led coalition that is occupying their country, even if they’re happy Saddam Hussein is history, says a major public opinion poll, conducted in Iraq in October, but published in the United States on Tuesday.

Less than one percent of the 3,244 Iraqis interviewed by Oxford Research International, in conjunction with Oxford University’s sociology department, bemoaned the fall of Saddam’s regime after the March invasion.

But 79 percent said they have no confidence in the US-led forces now occupying Iraq, according to a summary of the poll’s findings released on Monday by Oxford Research International, a private research organization.

Similarly, 73 percent had a similar lack of trust in the Coalition Provisional Authority, led by Paul Bremer.