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| Saddam Hussein's son warns of US plan to strike Iraq, break up region |
| 2002-07-07 |
| President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday warned of a US plan to launch a military strike on Iraq and break up the region's countries, including Saudi Arabia. "The US administration has drawn up a plan aimed at striking Iraq and breaking up the countries of the region," Uday alleged in a long article that covered the front and back pages of his Babel newspaper. Sounds like a good idea, Uday. Pray, tell on... The plan envisaged making "Jordan an alternative country for the Palestinians, dividing Saudi Arabia into three parts, and scrapping Bahrain's identity and re-attaching it to Persia," he said in the article which carried one of his pseudonyms, Abu Hatem. The United Arab Emirates will remain united only as long as Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan remains head of state, Uday added, warning that the country "will be divided up eventually." Parts of that sound like a pretty good plan, others either not so hot or indifferent. I doubt if Jordan would really want to take the Paleostinians, since with their climate they can increase their production of nuts at any time. They had Yasser and his gang before, which is how Lebanon got to be such a nice place. Bahrain's always seemed fairly nice, so why would we want to give it to the Iranians? They'd just make faces at us and call us names, without so much as a "thank you." And the UAE will split apart on its own accord eventually — or not. Who cares? Now, splitting Soddy Arabia into many pieces, that doesn't seem like a bad idea... "Iraq is ready to come to the rescue of Saudi Arabia if the country is threatened. A single telephone call, a simple sign to Baghdad, and they (the Saudis) will see Iraq launch all its forces to support the kingdom against those seeking to break it up," Uday said. And won't that be impressive? "Support will be given, whether by unarmed men or men armed to the teeth, by tanks placed at the border for Saudis to use or tanks manned by Iraqis." Somehow I can't see the Soddies doing something unusual like defending their own country, not even with Iraqi tanks. Some of those old clunkers don't even have air conditioning, for goodness' sake! But he added that the US plan would not succeed while the Palestinian intifada against Israel continued. "When the embargo imposed on Iraq (for invading Kuwait in 1990) is lifted, (Baghdad) will enter directly the Arab-Zionist conflict, which, from a US standpoint, will cause an imbalance in forces in the region and world," he warned. Sounds like a good reason for either keeping the embargo or for killing Sammy and both his sons and most of the Republican Guard... Saddam Hussein has announced that 6.5 million Iraqis have been mobilised to "liberate Palestine" — and are waiting for Arab states bordering Israel to open their frontiers. Something over a third of the population, you say? Mobilized already, itchin' and rarin' to go? Perhaps we should thump them. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |