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AMMAN, Jordan, April 14 (UPI) -- A Jordanian journalist said Monday that Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf threatened to cut off his hands over a report on the advance of U.S. forces on Baghdad.Majed Abdel Hadi, a correspondent for the Qatari al-Jazeera television, told United Press International that al-Sahhaf, who has vanished since American troops entered Baghdad last week, stormed the channel's offices in Baghdad and threatened to cut off his hands and dump him in the desert if he kept on reporting that the U.S. forces were approaching the Iraqi capital.Abdel Hadi said al-Sahhaf "accused me of being...

Senior intelligence officials have told Tony Blair's War Cabinet that Saddam Hussein's family have been threatening people with death to stop the regime from collapsing in its final hours. A Cabinet minister told The Telegraph last night that CIA reports showed that "maniacs" in Saddam's family were desperately trying to fight off the final defeat by threatening to shoot anyone who was prepared to surrender. "We have been totally taken aback by the ineptness of the regime. I think people have now given up, but there is nobody in authority to authorise the surrender," the minister said. "There are maniacs...

Chemical Warfare or more brain farts from Beret Boy?

Saddam 'could send human tide against Allies' The leader of British forces in the Gulf has warned the Iraqi regime could employ human shields, forcing civilians to march on the airport taken by Allied troops. His comments follow a statement from Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf that a non-conventional act would be carried out against coalition forces. Responding to the threat in an interview with BBC 2's Newsnight Air Marshal Brian Burridge suggested the regime might try to use civilians as human shields in an attempt to re-take the airport. He told the programme: "It's quite difficult to judge....

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 4 (UPI) -- Iraq threatened coalition soldiers occupying Saddam International Airport near Baghdad Friday with "non-conventional action" in the coming hours. Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said Iraqis were preparing "non-conventional action...," Friday night and Saturday morning and said "I believe it will be something very beautiful for those mercenaries." Al-Sahhaf later said he was referring to suicide-type attacks. "Most probably, none of them will emerge alive unless they surrender quickly. They are completely surrounded," he told reporters in Baghdad. When asked what he meant with "non-conventional action," he said: "We will not use non-conventional weapons but...

'Unless the Coalition forces (at Baghdad Interational Airport) surrender quickly, I don't think there is any chance that they will survive, (tonight's attack) Baghdad Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf said.

Saddam vows to defend Baghdad in statement read on TV BAGHDAD, April 4 (Reuters) - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told his people Baghdad would be defended, in a message read out on state television on Friday by one of his ministers. "The enemy is trying to enter Baghdad," Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said, quoting a statement he said was from Saddam. "Let every family in Baghdad be assured...our faithful men will confront the enemy." Most of Baghdad, without power, was probably not able to watch the short broadcast but it was likely to be repeated on radio.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said on Monday Iraq would turn the desert into a grave for invading U.S. and British forces if they did not retreat or surrender. He also said the number of volunteers from other Arab countries had risen to 5,000 from 4,000 a day earlier. "We will turn this desert into a big grave for the Americans and British," Sabri told a news conference in Baghdad. "They will not emerge from our land safely." Urging the advancing troops to retreat or surrender, he said: "With the passing of every day, they are sinking deeper...

There will be more suicide attacks on US-led forces seeking to topple the regime of President Saddam Hussein, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told the US television network ABC.In an interview from Baghdad, Aziz told ABC News that people who are being threatened by an invasion have "the right to fight by all means" to defend themselves."This is one of the means to defend Iraq against the invaders," he said. "So it is welcome."When you fight an invader by whatever means available to you, you are not a terrorist, you are a hero," he told ABC News, describing them...

AUSTRALIAN SAS troops will be targets of suicide bombers as Arab and Muslim anger is directed at Australia, a Middle East expert has warned. Amin Saikal, a professor of Middle East politics at the Australian National University, said Arabs and Muslims were out to target Australia for its perceived defence of Israel. He said it had been well publicised throughout the Middle East that Australia's SAS troops were operating in western Iraq. "If it is true that a number of ... suicide bombers have moved into Iraq you can expect these volunteers to focus very much on the forces which...

Baghdad warned Saturday that a suicide bombing which claimed the lives of four U.S. soldiers is just the start of a new strategy that will strike at British and U.S. interests inside and outside of Iraq. Iraq's vice president identified the bomber as an Iraqi army non-commissioned officer and father. He added that suicide attacks will become "routine" military policy. A report from Iraqi television said that Saddam Hussein had awarded the man two posthumous medals for honour. "We will use any means to kill our enemy in our land and we will follow the enemy into its land," Vice-President...

Saddam's deputy warns that Britain and America are to be targeted by suicide bombers, as US prepares for final assault on Baghdad American forces have been ordered to prepare for a ferocious assault on Baghdad to begin in the next few days, in an operation intended rapidly to encircle the Iraqi capital and isolate and destroy the regime of Saddam Hussein. According to sources with US units deployed along a vast curving front, stretching from just south of Kerbala to the south-west of Baghdad to north of Kut, a full-scale armoured assault against Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard units...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 29 - One of Iraq's top leaders said today that Saddam Hussein's government was ready to meet the overwhelming military superiority of the United States by resorting to widespread suicide attacks against Americans, Britons and all who support them, both inside Iraq and across the Arab world. Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, usually ranked No. 3 in the Iraqi hierarchy, told a news conference that the soldier who killed four Americans in a suicide attack earlier today outside the city of Najaf would be the first of a wave of Iraqis and other Arab volunteers ready...

Tehran, Iran :Iranian Students News Agency WWW-Text in Persian 1937 GMT 20 Mar 03 Tehran ,20 March :Iraq has mobilized thousands of volunteers to carry out suicide attacks in defence of the Saddam regime. According to a report by the Iranian Students' News Agency ,ISNA , Western diplomatic sources and Iraqi opposition groups have said that the volunteers for suicide operations are from Iraq , as well as from a number of other Arab countries and Pakistan . According to the Internet web site, Middle East News Line , a diplomatic source who is monitoring the provision of foreign assistance...

Iran says it may fire on aircraft in its skies By Paul Hughes TEHRAN, March 24 (Reuters) - Iran, which has reported several violations of its airspace by U.S and British jets attacking Iraq, said on Monday it might fire on aircraft which enter its skies. But it played down the significance of apparently errant missiles landing on its territory and said such incidents were the natural consequence of living next door to a war zone. Torn between its enmity for both main protagonists in the war in Iraq, the Islamic Republic has vowed to stay neutral. Deputy Interior Minister...

Saddam Vows to Crush Allied Forces By HAMZA HENDAWI .c The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - With U.S.-led forces closing in on Baghdad, a composed Saddam Hussein tried to rally his people and his troops with a stirring address Monday in which he vowed that allied forces would be crushed and ``victory will be ours soon.'' In Washington, a senior U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity said U.S. intelligence had determined that Saddam's speech was recorded. However, it is unclear when it was taped - hours or weeks before the strikes. The Iraqi president appeared in full military...

March 24, 2003 As Allies Race North, Iraq Warns of a Fierce FightBy JOHN F. BURNS AGHDAD, Iraq, Monday, March 24 — Iraq's defense minister said on Sunday that American forces driving north toward Baghdad had engaged in a pattern of "stops and swerves" around Iraqi defenses in cities and towns along the way, but that they would eventually have to "pay a heavy price in blood" by fighting for Baghdad if they wanted to topple Saddam Hussein. The warning by Gen. Sultan Hashim, delivered at an evening news conference, came only hours before an intensification of American bombing and...

'Iraq will become a quagmire for the Americans. Our troops will not surrender' 24 March 2003 Iraq stunned the Americans and British last night by broadcasting video tape of captured and dead American troops – the nightmare of both George Bush and Tony Blair. The body of one American soldier was seen with a great red gash on his neck, while five US prisoners appeared on screen. One, a black female soldier, had been wounded, while a male serviceman said he had been "only following orders". The film will increase internal support for Saddam Hussein, because it will be...

Reporting that Iraq VP say they will show footage of American POWs. Only problem is that we aren't reporting any missing troops. Will this be where those American uniforms get used that Iraq purchased???

Iraq will pay $14,000 for Americans brought in dead, $28,000 for Americans captured alive.