Posted on 12/04/2001 6:07:32 AM PST by Dallas
NICOSIA For the first time, Iraq has specifically threatened Israel with retaliation for any U.S.-led campaign against the regime of President Saddam Hussein.
A senior Iraqi diplomat said Saddam has seven million combatants called the Quds Army. The diplomat said Iraq would "swallow Israel up" if his country is attacked.
"The Palestinian cause and liberation of Jerusalem as well as campaign against Israel is a fundamental issue for Iraq, just like many other Islamic states," Iraqi charge d'affaires in Teheran Abdul Sattar Izzeddin Rawi said. The warning came hours after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein convened his defense chiefs on late Sunday. The Iraqi News Agency said the meeting focused on Iraqi preparations for any U.S.-led war against Baghdad.
Last week, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri suggested that Iraq would target Israel. But Sabri did not mention Israel by name. On Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said Iraq is prepared for a ground war should the United States attack but did not threaten Israel.
At the same time, Rawi told the official Iranian news agency IRNA that Saddam has sent three messages to the United States and its European allies. The messages warned against any attack on Baghdad.
The diplomat said Kurds in northern Iraq would suffer greatly if they cooperate in any U.S.-led effort to topple Saddam. For a decade, the Kurds have maintained self-rule in the north.
Rawi warned that the United States would not achieve anything in an attack on Iraq. He reiterated Iraq's refusal to allow the return of United Nations weapons inspectors in his country.
Hehehehe, sure they would. And it was the "Mother of a battles" in '91 huh? More like the "Mother of all butt-kickin's". Bush II ain't like his daddy. It's my expectation that President Bush will finish what his daddy failed to do then.
This toad is begging for a thumpin'...And as far as I am concerned, just as soon as we are done with putting bin Laden's head on a pike, he's next.
Yes ma'am. Except in Texas, we use these pointy cowboy boots. Better for targeting them once you have them cornered.(Meant to say "cult of cockroaches" up there in the post, by the way).
LOL! Thanks for the sweet memories, SamAdams you have made my day. Oh we can't forget the Iraq fighters who tried to surrender to the news crew. They sure are brave and couragous fighters indeed. HE HE
Sometime soon we'll find out who's really in charge....Putin, or the military.
Translation: "We'll swallow all of their bombs and missiles"
Well, let it be an Israel vs. Saddam thing then. I'll bet they would send in their secret agents to assisate Saddam.
You got it!
Let me guess, it will be called "The Mother of All Battles".
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
We should carpet-bomb Saddam and arm the resisters in Iraq while at the same time Israel clears out the snakes nest on the West Bank hopefully killing that terrorist ba$tard Arafat. It's Civilization vs Barbarism and a new Islamic Dark Ages, lets get it on!
These must be the sons of the 'mother of all battles'.
I think you're right! I saw on FOX news the other night a tape of one of the Islamic clerics right here in the U.S. pledging to his audience that the U.S. would soon be an Islamic State. These a$$holes are no different from their fascist Nazi counterparts.
it will be called "The Mother of All Battles".
No....it will be the daughter of the mother of all battles. Unless they hire Jesse Jackass as their ambassador of ill-will, then they'll just call it a BigMoFo Battle!
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