[Travis McGee]

"I swear in the name of Allah", he says, "we don't care about death or life, we're going to heaven. Death is welcome."

Give them what they want.

And pray for Thomas Hamil and the other hostages....

[Squantos]

Sounds like the rant from the Prince last night ?

[Destro]

(End audio excerpt recorded on scene) We reported the fate of the American hostage but there was no immediate move to mount a rescue. (Audio of crowd chanting) Several more kilometres down the road and tens of thousands have gathered chanting "Jihad", or "holy war" in the huge Sunni mosque Saddam built on the western edge of Baghdad. (Audio of speaker yelling through loudspeaker) The speaker says, "we will say no with one voice. You Americans will not pass through here. There is no legitimacy in the new Iraq, except for those who fight." This is Peter Cave in Baghdad, for Saturday AM.

Why is the Saddam Mosque still standing?