Posted on 08/21/2005 6:10:30 PM PDT by rface
“My soul and my existence is to be sacrificed for our precious Palestine and our beloved, patient and suffering Iraq,”
AMMAN: Awaiting trial on charges of massacre of fellow Muslims, Saddam Hussein in a letter published on Sunday vowed to sacrifice himself for the cause of Palestine and Iraq, and urged Arabs to follow his path.
“My soul and my existence is to be sacrificed for our precious Palestine and our beloved, patient and suffering Iraq,” the letter said. The letter, published in two Jordanian newspapers, was delivered through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to a friend living in Jordan. Those who made the letter public said the man refused to be identified. It was believed to have been the first letter - since Saddam was captured in December 2003 - sent to someone other than a family member.
Tayseer Homsi, secretary general of the Jordanian Arab Ba’ath Socialist Party, said the missive had been delivered through the ICRC to an “independent Jordanian political figure who wished to remain anonymous.”
Rana Sidani, a spokeswoman for the ICRC’s Iraq delegation in Amman, confirmed the authenticity of the published letter. “The ICRC collected the message,” she said “It was censored by the detaining authorities before being handed over to the ICRC for distribution.”
A friend of Saddam’s family, speaking on condition of anonymity, verified the letter’s handwriting as “100 percent Saddam’s.”
Saddam was expected to stand trial in Iraq this fall on charges that could incur the death penalty. His letter appeared to include his musings on that possible fate.
“Life is meaningless without the considerations of faith, love and inherited history in our nation,” the letter said “It is not much for a man to support his nation with his soul and all he commands because it deserves it, since it has given us life in the name of God and allowed us to inherit the best,” he wrote in a what appeared a clear call to Arabs to follow in his footsteps. “My brother, love your people, love Palestine, love your nation, long live Palestine,” the document concluded. The Jordanian Ba’ath party, which publicised the letter and espouses ideology similar to Saddam’s now-defunct Ba’ath party, has no links to Iraq. Homsi said the letter’s recipient gave his party a copy of the letter two days ago.
The letter becomes public as Iraq gears up for a series of trials, the first beginning this fall, which involves Saddam’s alleged role in the 1982 massacre of an estimated 150 Shiites in Dujail, north of Baghdad, in retaliation for an assassination attempt on him. ap
If he really wants to go meet the 72 virgins or whatever ist is, you can rest assure that we, the United States, can surely arrange the meeting.
That's true, I didn't think...Saddam paid $25K for each exploding Palestinian. They blow up so fast, don't they?
I didn't see any mention is made though that he was found in a hole and gave up without a fight.
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