New purported Saddam tape urges uprising

"Rise up my fellow Iraqis and expel the infidels so I can continue to feed you into my shredders while I rape you wives and daughters!"

Sorry, just doesn't have that special "ring" to it.

LINKS OF INTEREST:

FOX NEWS.com: "ANOTHER 'SADDAM' TAPE AIRS, CALLING FOR UPRISING AGAINST U.S." (August 1, 2003) (Read More)

MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Special Report No.19: "ARAB AND MUSLIM JIHAD FIGHTERS IN IRAQ" by Steven Stalinsky (July 27, 2003) (Read More...)

ISLAM ONLINE.net: "SADDAM PAYS TRIBUTE TO KILLED SONS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BAGHDAD, July 29 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - In a new audiotape aired by Al-Arabiya TV channel Tuesday, July 29, ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein paid tribute to his two sons Uday and Qusay who were recently killed by U.S. forces. "We thank Allah for honoring us with thei martyrdom...Beloved Iraqis, your sons and brothers -- Uday, Qusay and Qusay's son Mustafa - practiced an act of faith in the arena of jihad in Mosul, after a valiant battle with the enemy lasting a full six hours," said the voice said to be of the ousted Iraqi president. "I bring you the glad tidings, the honorable news, which is the wish of every sincere citizen struggling for the sake of Allah," he said. The voice warned that "the youth of our nation (Arab world) and Iraq (will follow) Uday, Qusay and Mustafa in the arena of jihad." The tape came exactly a week after Uday and Qusay, Mustafa and a bodyguard were killed in a massive U.S. raid on a villa in the northern city of Mosul. The U.S. decision to allow TV journalists to film the bodies was harshly criticized by law experts, human rights advocates and media specialists."The armies of aggression equipped with all kinds of weapons of land forces could not reach them until aircraft were used (to bomb) the house in which they were present. "Once more I tell our faithful people and our glorious (Arab) nation that (we) sacrifice lives and money for the sake of Allah, Iraq and our nation ... If Saddam Hussein had 100 sons other than Uday and Qusay, Saddam Hussein would have offered them on the same path (of martyrdom)," said the speaker. "I sacrifice my sons, fortune and myself for the sake of Allah Almighty...May Allah bless the youth of Iraq...Allah is Greater and the Paradise is for the martyrs."Long live our nation and long live Palestine and down with the Zionism and the two liars (Bush and Blair) and their agents," the voice concluded. The voice gave the date of the recording as July 2003, without specifying the day.") (July 29, 2003) (Read More...)

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE.com: "SADDAM SENT TRADE MISSION TO NIGER" by Terence P. Jeffrey (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Bottom line: Saddam sent a trade mission to a nation that exports uranium. The IAEA interviewed Saddam’s emissary--who also had been accredited as Saddam's ambassador to Niger--in Iraq in the presence of an Iraqi monitor. ElBaradei went to the Security Council and revealed that the Iraq-Niger documents were forgeries, and that an Iraqi official had gone to Niger in 1999, but he did not say that the Iraqi went to this uranium-exporting nation as (in Ms. Fleming’s words) "part of a trade mission." CIA Director George Tenet in a July 11 statement said an outside investigator the CIA sent to Niger (whom former U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson identified as himself in a New York Times op-ed) talked to a former Niger official who "said that in June 1999 a businessman approached him and insisted that the former official meet with an Iraqi delegation to discuss ‘expanding commercial relations’ between Iraq and Niger. The former official interpreted the overture as an attempt to discuss uranium sales." British Prime Minister Tony Blair said at the White House last week: "[L]et me just say this on the issue to do with Africa and uranium. The British intelligence that we have we believe is genuine." Who struck closer to the truth here, the Brits or the IAEA? The jury's still out, but don't bet against the Brits.") (July 23, 2003) (Read More...)

On The Net...JIHAD ONLINE.net

AS-SAHWAH.com (ISLAMICAWAKENING.com): "JIHAAD" (The Discussion Board)

"The feeling of defeat and bitterness might lead some people to commit treason ... instead of being a gun pointed at the enemy," said the voice, which sounded like Saddam and was broadcast Friday by the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite television station

I think Saddam is not getting the help from the masses he wants.

It's kinda nice to know he is watching his dream, his empire, shrivel to nothing before his eyes.

Sort of like the ending to that old Vincent Price movie "The Fly"....or the Wicked Witch slowly melting away.

I suspect most of his supporters are no longer supporters. I'm also beginning to suspect that a good bit of the trouble going on in Iraq is being caused by Al Quaida that came in from outside the country. Do you remember while the war was going on, there were reports of Islamic extremists from all over the world rushing to Iraq to "defend Islam" or some such thing? I think they're still there.

re post no. 6. I agree with you regarding Al Qaeda. And now, a link of interest...

ISLAM ONLINE.net - Fatwa Application: "ASK THE SCHOLAR" - Question: "SHOULD IRAQIS FIGHT THE INTERNATIONAL FORCES IN IRAQ?" (ARTICLE SNIPPETS: "Scholars agree that it is an individual obligation to use all possible means to defend the homeland against invasion. This means that not only men have to fight, but also excused people, such as women and the old, must participate." ... "Exegetes of the Qur'an explain this verse to mean that disbelievers must never rule over the believers. So the Muslims are entitled to resist invasion by all possible means to defend themselves and their lands. This is one of the urgent cases of jihad in which fighting becomes an individual obligation on all people in the country, men, women, old people and children.") (July 30, 2003) (Read More...)

I agree. Saddam just admitted his support is shrinking and is becoming shrill..

Thanks for telling me about this one.

I thought he would announce his intent to run for the Democratic nomination for President. He fits right in with them. So what if he's not American. Since when did the Democrats care about the law?

Aug. 1, 2003
Text of audiotape purported to be from Saddam Hussein
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Text of remarks purportedly made by deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in an audiotape aired Friday by Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television. The text is translated from the Arabic by The Associated Press. There was no immediate way to confirm the tape's authenticity.

A statement to the great people of Iraq.

In these times, officials (from Saddam's deposed government) desire to salvage what is most valuable. What has happened to our country as a result of the invasion is great. We need to save what can be saved, this is a duty for the us and the people.

The balance has shifted, after the military confrontations (with insurgents) and this has not changed. They (the Americans) will not be able to stop this. I say that this shift in balance has happened because of the great mujahedeen and faithful fighters who have worked and struggled to confront the occupation and throw the invaders outside Iraq so that Iraq can return to its normal state after that.

There is the shift in some people's spirits who felt desperate and defeatist, who give up the nation's riches to the invaders who want to destroy it or take it to serve their malicious purposes, including making it available to their traitorous followers who went along with their tanks.

Making use of the lawlessness, a lot of people out of greed took the properties of the country and the party. Others took it to their homes out of concern and responsibility, either from higher orders or from their own personal initiative to secure them, until he can discern the wishes of the officials.

We feel bitterness about what has happened, but we are insistent on taking the responsibility to save our people and brothers, even those who have betrayed the nation and cooperated with the criminal invaders.

We feel that not handling this case with caution will make those concerned feel guilt and fear the future and commit the crime of treason, God forbid, which is nothing that they want and become an aid to the foreigner as a result of this destructive feeling, instead of being a loaded rifle in the face of the invading foreigner and be a part of the pious struggle and not fear the future.

We have decided to consider all the properties of the party and the government a gift to whoever has it, to use as they see fit, keep it or sell it, without any restrictions, free from any legal constraints, neither now nor in the future.

Those who want to keep these properties in order to return it to the party once things are back to normal in the future, will in the eyes of God and the people be rewarded greatly. Like them who decide (to keep) these properties and donate their value to the mujahedeen or to the party in their area.

In all cases we totally forbid giving these items and properties to the criminal invaders and their traitorous aids and the agencies that they run.

This decision will not benefit the following, the president of the republic, president of the Revolutionary Command Council, his deputy, members of the Revolutionary Command Council, heads of the Baath party, the prime minister and the ministers in all their levels. They only have to keep and benefit from the properties they have at hand and give a detailed report of this to the president of the republic when matters return to normal in the future.

Secondly, dear brothers, in the above decision, we solved one of today's problems. Our faith is great that God will support us, and that one day the occupation army will falter and that victory is possible at any moment in the future as a result of the painful strikes of the mujahedeen and our people's insistence to stop the invaders. We must not let things slip away and our situation become desperate

We ask you to be confident. I ask all those who took part in the looting to be law abiding and not act vengefully. I ask you to respect international law and the teachings of religion in dealing with those who surrender to you from the occupation army.

A greeting to our proud country and those with a clean hand and the martyrs.

Saddam Hussein, July 27, 2003.

I thought he would announce his intent to run for the Democratic nomination for President. He fits right in with them. So what if he's not American. Since when did the Democrats care about the law?

Actually, given that Robert Mugabe is considered "African-American" in some circles, I wouldn't be surprised to find someone calling Saddam an "Arab-American."

"...or to donate their value to the glorious resistance..."

I don't think that taking pot-shots at our guys every once in a while can be described as a "glorious resistance", Saddam.

Releasing the tape before this one (the one where he admits that his hellspawn are dead) was a big mistake. He lost the very last bargaining chip he had: the Iraqis' fears that his sons would resurface and continue his regime.

Breaking news: Tom Daschle caught with sophisticated recording equipment, voice modulators, and several English-to-Iraqi dictionaries...

lol, I wouldn't be half surprise...

It's crackly are hard to make out It's vague, rambling, and non-specific in context It calls for Jihad agaist the Infidel am I close

Almost. He called for supporting Dean for president.

Why doesn't that lilly-liver coward come out from under that rock he's under and fight US like a man. If he wants to meet the 72 virgins, then come to the nearest U.S. military group and let them arrange the meeting. Like all other tyrants (Hitler, Mussolini, Amin, etc.), they issue the orders safe in a bunker. What an example of a leader. I guess he's caught between Iraq and a hard place.