Posted on 04/01/2003 9:32:11 AM PST by ConservativeVoice
Saddam Urges Iraqis in TV Message to Hit Invaders 7 minutes ago Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo!
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) said in a message to the Iraqi people Tuesday that jihad (holy war) was a religious duty and he urged them to fight invading U.S. and British troops wherever they found them.
"Jihad is a duty. Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven ... This is what God requested of you," said Saddam's message, read out on state television by Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf.
"Hit them, fight them ... Fight them everywhere," the message sa
How 'bout a very vertically oriented saddam reviewing the troops holding todays paper?
Or, he has already left the country and is laughing at all the idiots who are dying for him.
And it makes sense that the Baathists would try to cover up, since the threat of Saddam staying in power is all that's keeping them from being torn to shreds by their own people.
One problem with that analogy is that Tariq Aziz is a Christian, who has no possibility of any power base in Iraq -- that's why Saddam picked him to be his #2. I doubt Aziz would be hanging around if his patron were dead. Here's what Aziz told ABC News on Sunday:
ENGEL: What evidence — we never see Saddam Hussein; we’ve only seen some cassettes —AZIZ: Saddam Hussein is seen by the people who should see him. The leadership and those who are fighting the enemy. Saddam Hussein is the president. I was with him yesterday we appeared on television. But he is not going to go to places where he could be attacked by the Americans and the British, he is intelligent enough to know that this is one of the traps which are being made to catch a leader, you see. Saddam Hussein is an experienced commander in chief, he was a leader of Iraq and leader of the Iraqi armed air force during eight years of war with Iran. When he was personally targeted by the Iranians and he was also targeted in 1991 so he knows how to behave.
ENGEL: So ... so he was targeted at the first day of the war? By the Americans?
AZIZ: They say that. He was not in that place; he was not in that place. They are bluffing and they are actually — what astonishes me is that maybe in times of war people would make some lies, make some deceptions in order to discourage the enemy for grander reasons, for psychological reasons. But what is happening now, and I tell you, I don’t want to be rude — when I listen to what they say I laugh. Because they are cheating themselves, they are deceiving themselves.
We probably had a pretty good idea that Saddam would go to ground once the bombs started falling, based on his behavior during the Gulf War, and we are wringing every bit of value out of that we can. Why not? Ambiguity has been maintained, so there's isn't much of a downside.
And he should get a better translator. Like babblefish. I'm pretty sure he never meant to say "the eye of my apple of my eye".
Then again, maybe the loons on LF are right when they claim this is a "war for Iraq's extraterrestrial heritage" :)).
I'm not sure of the number, but the area code is 666.
War News Seen Giving Stocks a Lift
...Saddam Hussein said in a message to the Iraqi people that jihad (holy war) was a religious duty. But Saddam's message was read out on state television by Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, prompting some investors to buy on bets that the Iraqi president was not around.
Just found this hilarious article when I was doing a search for another thread:
BAGHDAD -- Widespread rumors that Iraqi madman Saddam Hussein has signed a sinister pact with the Devil appear to have been confirmed -- when a photograph surfaced showing the brutal dictator shaking hands with a horned figure with flaming-red skin!
While Iraq's scientists have been working overtime to develop nuclear warheads and chemical weapons, Saddam's corps of demonologists has labored just as feverishly to raise evil spirits, the CIA analyst reveals.
"Over the summer they claim to have summoned up dozens of the ancient Mesopotamian demons, including Huwawa and Lamastu," he says. "According to some accounts we've received, the rituals involved in raising these demonic spirits were stomach-turning. We know of at least 114 captured Kurdish rebels who were used in human sacrifices. "It would have been surprising if Saddam didn't try to raise Satan." Lt. Col. Mazhar claims the Iraqis did just that on October 31, using a sophisticated version of a Ouija board. The defector says the macabre figure "materialized" in the presidential palace and asked to see Saddam.
ROTFLMAO!
Thank you all tonight for tuning in to this LIVE broadcast to watch ME your ruler Saddam. Praise be to Allah, but you can see that news of my death have been greatly exaggerated! To prove it to you, today is April first but this is not April fool! I don`t allow such foolish American traditions in Iraq! praise be to Allah! George Bush the evil, has started rumors of my death to upset my subjects, but here I am for all you to see that I am very much alive! ALIVE! To prove it to you some more, my good friend Peter Arnett and I talked yesterday and I was very angry that he was fired for supporting my regime! There is your proof! How would I know such things if I were dead? Hmmmm?? Praise be to Allah!
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