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| Iraq | |
| Saddam: ’Fight Them With Your Hands’ | |
| 2003-04-03 | |
| With U.S. ground forces closing in fast, Saddam Hussein exhorted the Iraqi people to "fight them with your hands," according to a statement read Thursday on Iraqi satellite television. From what it sounds like, that's about all they got left. The statement, addressed to the people of the region southeast of Baghdad, was read by Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. Saddam hasn't delivered a speech on TV since March 24, and it is unclear when that address was recorded. Mo, if I was you, I'd start making my travel plans. "Fight them with your hands, God will disgrace them. God is great," Thursday's statement said. At a news conference, Sahhaf disputed coalition claims of battle successes. "All this is to cover their disappointment and inability," he said. ...he said, as a round whistled by his head. "They are not even 100 miles (away from Baghdad). They are not anywhere. They are like a snake moving in the desert. They have no foothold in Iraq. ... They do not even control Umm Qasr," the information minister said, referring to the southern port city held by British forces. Pay no attention to the ceiling collapsing around me... Hoping to counter reports that allied forces had taken Saddam International Airport — U.S. Central Command said its units were "in the vicinity" of the airport — Iraqi officials took reporters to the facility Thursday afternoon. The airport was deserted save for employees and armed guards. Three Iraqi Airways planes sat on the tarmac. The departure lounge was covered with a yellow coat of dust, left over from last week's two-day sandstorm. On the nine-mile road to the airport from central Baghdad, a six-story purple-hued building thought to belong to one of Iraq's security agencies was severely damaged. A complex of low buildings along the road was almost completely destroyed. It was not clear who had occupied those buildings.
Like the saying goes, it ain't just a river in Egypt. The U.S. military reported only three Marines wounded in the fighting at Kut and said its forces were advancing into the outskirts of Baghdad unhindered by the Republican Guard. Meanwhile, the air assault on Baghdad continued. The site of Baghdad's old airport was struck overnight by coalition aircraft. The target appeared to be a row of tin shelters which stretch for about a mile where the Trade Ministry stores hundreds of imported cars. Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh accused coalition forces of breaking into Iraqi warehouses and stealing children's milk and supplies. Wait a second, I thought we bombed those? When asked where Saddam is and why he has not been seen on television, Saleh laughed. "I think you have seen his picture," Saleh said, referring to silent footage that aired Wednesday of a smiling Saddam chairing a Cabinet meeting. "He is very calm, confident." ...so calm you'd almost swear he wasn't alive. | |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #8 Fight them with your hands ........... this is in reference to the 72 Virgins that they're about to encounter. |
| Posted by: Nam Vet 2003-04-03 19:02:16 |
| #7 I get the impression that those Iraqis who can are voting with their feet. |
| Posted by: Hiryu 2003-04-03 17:59:26 |
| #6 ;-) wills, I still think most marines would take their chances..even against a skinny bitch lol like ralph macchio |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-04-03 17:57:20 |
| #5 I sure hope this fight them with your hands thing doesnt take hold, i just watched the karate kid part 2 last night, and even a skinny bitch like ralph macchio can be kind of scrappy.... |
| Posted by: Wills 2003-04-03 16:30:00 |
| #4 Dreadnought, Good stuff. If this Iraq thing doesn't work out, he's got a future with North Korea. He can fill in when the Army-based guy has a day off. What? Did I miss something? Has he announced that Iraq's new "army-based policy" will sweep the Imperial dogs into years of lamentations? |
| Posted by: Hodadenon 2003-04-03 15:50:22 |
| #3 Yaaar! Fight 'em with yer hands! Yaaar! Gnaw them with yer teeth! Yaaar! Good stuff. If this Iraq thing doesn't work out, he's got a future with North Korea. He can fill in when the Army-based guy has a day off. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2003-04-03 14:50:24 |
| #2 I'm really starting to enjoy Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf.... This guy just won't quit... he's hilarious... Next thing you know, he'll tell us "The Merkins aren't even Iraq!..." |
| Posted by: -----------<<<<- 2003-04-03 13:44:48 |
| #1 Someone needs to get the casting call date to Sammy for "Weekend at Bernie's II". |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2003-04-03 12:56:19 |