Posted on 07/19/2006 2:21:13 PM PDT by Tassadar
Amman - Toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has issued a warning to the Syrian leadership 'not to go too far in its alliance with Iran,' blaming Tehran for the current flare-up of violence in the Middle East, the head of Saddam's defence team claimed Tuesday.
Iraqi lawyer Khalil Duleimi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that he and another member of the defence panel, Ziyad Najdawi, met with the former Iraqi president at his place of custody in Baghdad on Monday for three and a half hours.
'The president told us that the Syrian leadership should not go too far in its alliance with Iran, because the Persians harbour bad intentions for all Arabs and aspire to see them vanquished,' he said.
'The Israeli aggression on Lebanon and the Palestinians is a natural result for what happened to Iraq with Iranian backing,' Saddam reportedly said, alluding to the US-led invasion of Iraq that resulted in the ouster of his regime in April 2003.
'Therefore, I do not exclude other Arab countries becoming the victim of US-backed Israeli attacks that serve Iranian objectives in the region,' he added.
Syria, which belonged to a rival wing of the Arab Baathist Party then ruling in Baghdad, supported Persian Iran against Arab Iraq in the 1980-88 war.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week warned that 'heavy casualties' would be inflicted on Israel if Syria was attacked.
'I am convinced that the Iranian and US agendas have met in Iraq and elsewhere in the Arab world and Arabs are now placed between the US-Israeli hammer and the Iranian anvil,' Duleimi quoted Saddam as saying
Truly nuts. The US and Iran in a conspiracy to subjugate Arabs? Just nuts.
Now what does that bird say when it comes out of the clock? Is he going for the insanity defence?
Taking this sub-human piece of excrement alive, was one of the truly big mistakes of the Iraq invasion.
Dogs and cats sleeping together, mass hysteria!
You know... real end of the world stuff
Whatever....they're all nuts.
My guess is that the hammer is too heavy for the anvil.
How is he in a position to issue anything except a duece into the commode every morning?
I truly wish the US soldier (marine?) that almost tossed a grenade into the spider hole before checking it out had done so. It would have saved a lot of problems. But then, perhaps there is some other reason for this scum to be alive awhile longer.
Obviously, Saddam doesn't want Israel to attack Syria and find all the weapons relocated to Syria before the U.S. attacked Iraq.
If that service man had throw that granade the Dems would have demanded he be put on trial for war crimes. Leave well enough alone.
It took them 3 days to capture, try and execute by firing squad their "beloved" communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. The execution was broadcast on National T.V. Christmas Day 1989
get on with it already Iraq
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