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