Baath threatens attacks if Saddam executed
Iraqs disbanded Baath party threatened to attack the heavily-protected Green Zone in Baghdad if the death sentence is carried out against its leader Saddam Hussein, in an Internet statement posted on Tuesday. If president Saddam Hussein is executed ... the party will reinforce its siege against the Green Zone, which houses Iraqi government offices and the US embassy, said the partys command on its official site. It vowed to use all possible means to destroy embassies, as well as the headquarters of intelligence and treacherous organisations.
America and Iran, its ally, have detonated a bomb whose shrapnel will hit all the plotters and their agents in Iraq and outside. | America and Iran, its ally, have detonated a bomb whose shrapnel will hit all the plotters and their agents in Iraq and outside, said the party statement, referring to Sundays death sentence against the ousted president.
Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein called on all Iraqis to forgive, reconcile and shake hands as he appeared in court Tuesday to face genocide charges after being condemned to death in a separate trial. I call on all Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, to forgive, reconcile and shake hands, Saddam said in the court after he questioned the days third witness who testified against him in the genocide trial. Saddam brushed aside a Kurdish villagers account on Tuesday of an alleged massacre, saying there was no proof.
Posted by: Fred 2006-11-08 |