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| Iraq |
| "I’m Still Not Dead Yet! Really!" |
| 2003-05-06 |
| An audiotape has been handed to the Herald in Baghdad, with this tantalising claim: it is the voice of Saddam Hussein only two days ago, Ed O'Loughlin reports. He and bin Laden must have gone to the same DeVry class about making tapes after you're dead. A tired-sounding voice calls on Iraq's people to stand together in a new underground war against the occupying forces. "I don't want to talk in details about the occupation and why and how, and I am going to focus instead on how to face these invaders and kick them out from Iraq," it says, pausing to cough. Kick them out? Cough indeed. "... It sounds as if we have to go back to the secret style of struggle that we began our life with. Through this secret means, I am talking to you from inside Great Iraq and I say to you, the main task for you, Arab and Kurd, Shia and Sunni, Muslim and Christian and the whole Iraqi people of all religions, your main task is to kick the enemy out from our country." But do it in secret, so no one will know they're gone! "Certainly it's him," said a judge from a Baghdad criminal court, who asked not to be named. "I am 100 per cent certain. I deal with physical evidence all the time." Why, I still have the hands of the last robber who stood trial before me! Two men gave the tape to the Herald on Monday, only after they failed to deliver it to correspondents for the Arab TV station Al-Jazeera. Thanks, but no thanks, guys. We've still got this backlog of fake bin Ladens to air. And May issweeps week, ya know. The voice on the tape refers several times to the post-Baath occupation, and accuses US forces of looting the Iraqi National Museum. It also refers to the Iraqi people celebrating Saddam's birthday. "You guys, you should've gotten me some new running shoes this year," he said. The voice on the tape speaks of previous attempts to communicate "I addressed some messages before, many messages before," it says. "Some of them were by my voice and some were addressed to the mass media, but we know and you know very well the mass media in the whole world is controlled by the Zionists, and especially by their headquarters in the White House." Like al-Jazerra and abu Dubai too? Some, however, were sceptical. |
| Posted by:growler |
| #1 I saw one of saddams propaganda pieces in early03 which had him addressing his normal room ful of military types, during this particular call to action saddam extolled the virtus of staying in shpae through swimming in the euphrates river. Perhaps we should be looking along the river because it was clear Saddam would NEVER give up his daily swms. |
| Posted by: AnonymousLy yours 2003-05-06 17:53:43 |