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Mullah Fudlullah warns US over Iraq war
âBritish and US troops are discovering they are not welcome in Iraq,â Senior Shiite cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah said Wednesday, after coalition forces faced fierce resistance in the south. âThe people continue to view these soldiers and their presence in Iraq as an occupation force,â said Fadlallah in a statement sent to AFP. âThe Americans and the British are shocked by the significant resistance of the Iraqi people after they thought the road to Baghdad would be strewn with flowers.âFadlallah said the suffering of the Iraqi people under President Saddam Hussein will not make them forget who brought him to power in the first place, and supplied him with weapons, alluding to western support for the Iraqi leader during his war with Iran in the 1980s. Separately, Fadlallah said Wednesday that âeverybody is in a stalemate,â adding that âWashington has started to read the message of the Iraqi people accurately and it will not be welcomed by them in the future as it is not welcome now.â In a TV interview Tuesday, Fadlallah said that the area of Najaf, a holy city for Shiite Muslims, would not accept occupation even if it suffered. Fadlallah also called on residents there to âsupport freedom.â He said Israel will not stage any military attack against Lebanon because the US does not want to open new fronts, neither here nor in Syria. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-03-27 |
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