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Iraqi Group Vows Anti-U.S. Attacks, Denies Saddam Links
Four masked men identifying themselves as Iraqi resistance group warned Sunday, August 10, of more anti-U.S. resistance operations in Iraq, while denying any link with Saddam Hussein's ousted regime.
| More really, really tough guys with rags over their faces... |
"This increasing resistance has no link with what remains of the former regime," said one of the four men pictured in a videotape broadcast by Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite news channel. "Because they have neither values nor principles, the ousted regime are not capable of taking part in anti-U.S. resistance and could not sacrifice their sons and wives; otherwise Baghdad would not have fallen with such easiness."
| "My wife? Go ahead. Bump her off. I got another one." |
"We are members of the Iraqi resistance. We will fight the occupier to defend our religion, our faith, our homeland and our people,â said the spokesman, cradling a Kalashnikov assault rifle, while his three companions wielded two more AK-47s and two rocket-propelled grenade launchers. "Resistance has become an insurmountable hurdle" for the U.S. forces of occupation, the spokesman said, warning: "We will turn Iraq into a cemetery for the invaders and colonizers." The group, which dated the tape on August 3, also took aim at the U.S. military for trying to blame the almost daily attacks on its soldiers on loyalists to the former regime. "As it had launched a dirty war against Iraq under the pretext of ending the corruption of the former regime, America is trying to crack down on resistance by linking us to the same former regime," said the voice. "Iraqi resistance is legal and justified by all international laws and resolutions. How come that we should not resist as thousands of Iraqis are being detained, our land occupied and our honor violated."
| "I mean, we stood around with our thumbs up our butts for 30 years with Sammy and we voted for him 100.00 percent, so we know what we're talkin' about when it comes to having our honor violated!" |
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-08-11 |
