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Saddam Urges Iraqis To Fight "Enemies": Paper
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"Your
main task is to kick the enemy out from our country," said
the alleged voice of Saddam
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SYDNEY,
May 7 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - An Australian newspaper
reported Wednesday, May 7, that its correspondent in Baghdad had
obtained an audiotape allegedly recorded on Monday, April 28, by
deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
The
Sydney Morning Herald said two men gave the tape to its
correspondent after failing to deliver it to correspondents for the
Arab TV station al-Jazeera, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.
In
the 15-minute recording, Saddam calls on the Iraq people to unite in
an underground war against the U.S.-led occupation forces.
"We
have to go back to the secret style of struggle that we began our life
with ... your main task is to kick the enemy out from our
country," the Herald quoted the "tired-sounding"
voice as saying.
"Through
this secret means, I am talking to you from inside Great Iraq and I
say to you, the main task for you, Arabs and Kurds, Shiites and
Sunnis, Muslims and Christians and the whole Iraqi people of all
religions, your main task is to kick the enemy out from our
country," the audio said.
"You
have to believe that he who is working with the foreigners is working
against you. He is not only a servant for foreigners, he is an enemy
of God and an enemy of the people as well.
"Reject
these people and reject anything that will divide you, Iraqi people.
"Be
united all under your flag, under the Iraqi flag, under the slogan
Allahu Akhbar, all in one trench. The Iraqi people must keep their own
civilization in which they are one country, one people, as they are
now.
The
speaker made several references to the occupation of the country and
accused U.S. forces of carrying out looting
of antiquities at the Iraqi National Museum.
Identical
The
Australian daily said it had played the tape to 13 Iraqis from all
walks of life, including a former acquaintance of Saddam and people
from his hometown of Tikrit, and "the overwhelming opinion was
that the voice and rhetoric were very similar, or identical, to those
of Saddam".
"Certainly
it's him," a judge from a Baghdad criminal court, who asked not
to be named, told The Sydney Morning Herald.
"I
am 100 per cent certain. I deal with physical evidence all the
time," he said.
Talib
al Shar'aa, a law professor at Baghdad University, said the tape
"sounded very realistically like Saddam Hussein".
"This
is the first time he has admitted the reality of the occupation,"
he told the Herald.
"He
focuses on the word occupation, and he admits to being in hiding and
working by secret means. And it sounds to me like this speech is new
because he mentioned the Iraqi people celebrating his birthday on
April 28, 2003," he said.
The
newspaper said two men speaking with the accent of the Tikrit region
approached its correspondent's car -- clearly marked "press"
– on Monday, April 28, outside the Palestine Hotel which houses much
of the international media in Baghdad.
One
man asked for directions to the offices of the al-Jazeera or
al-Arabiya television stations, but when told they were inside the
hotel he balked at entering the building which was guarded by U.S.
troops.
He
then handed the tape to the Australians, saying it had been recorded
that morning by Saddam.
On
April 30, the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily frontpaged
what it described as a letter
handwritten by Saddam, urging his people to rise against the
Anglo-American occupation forces.
The
letter was dated April 28, the 66th birthday of Saddam whose
whereabouts remain a mystery, the paper chief editor Abdul Bari Atwan
said at the time.
Saddam
had appeared in a number of videotaped messages during the war which
were authenticated by U.S. intelligence services.
Abu
Dhabi TV channel broadcast, April 18, a footage
showing Saddam in Al-A’zamiya residential neighborhood in
Baghdad on April 9, the same day U.S. tanks rolled into the Iraqi
capital.
Transcript
Following
is the transcript of the alleged audiotape as translated by the
Australian newspaper:
"In
the name of God most gracious, most merciful we praise (your)
messengers and their followers in life. In the next life they will
have justice.
"Iraqi
people, great Iraqi people, women and men, and the Iraqi armed forces
and all people who want to change their attitude about their enemies,
peace be upon you all.
"I
don't want to talk in detail about the occupation and why and how, and
I am going to focus on how to face these invaders and kick them out
from Iraq.
"I
addressed some messages before, many messages before. 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 its headquarters in the
White House.
"Therefore
we have tried hard to address our messages by many, many ways and some
of them reached ours people in the Iraqi governorates, and some will
reach them sooner.
"In
any case, 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, Arabs and Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis,
Muslims and Christians and the whole Iraqi people of all religions,
your main task is to kick the enemy out from our country.
"You
have to believe that he who is working with the foreigners is working
against you. He is not only a servant for foreigners, he is an enemy
of God and an enemy of the people as well.
"Reject
these people and reject anything that will divide you, Iraqi people.
"Be
united all under your flag, under the Iraqi flag, under the slogan
Allahu Akhbar, all in one trench. The Iraqi people must keep their own
civilization in which they are one country, one people, as they are
now.
"Your
enemy came to Iraq and they thought that the Iraqi people would
receive them with flowers but they were surprised.
"Some
people now are changing their minds about the Americans and the
occupation. We have no option but to struggle and satisfy God and high
principles and ourselves as well.
"Now,
some people who supported the Americans and the occupiers are now
changing their minds, step by step. Now everyone is going to change
their minds, and they know what is best for them and their family.
Their family is Iraq.
"But
they will not understand everything unless they know the whole truth
about themselves.
"The
Iraqi people challenged the whole world by celebrating the 28th of
April (Saddam's birthday) and asserted that this festivity was not
forced on them by Saddam Hussein or by the authorities.
"It
was an Iraqi decision, because they consider Saddam Hussein as a
brother or as a father to them.
"And
this is just to express of their free will that nobody forced them to
do it or to live in any way against their will. It is their true
attitude towards Saddam Hussein.
"The
Iraqis want to challenge the occupation and say to all humanity, yes,
the occupiers could occupy Iraq, but they will never be able to change
the Iraqi heart's love for Saddam Hussein and their country.
"Some
of these people admired the West and described it as the free world,
but it is not. And indigenous people would never care about the
Western media, because it is controlled by Zionists.
"Especially
the two administrations in Washington and London, which are controlled
by the Zionist media.
"They
tell many, many lies, and you Iraqi people have won your moral battle
because the Americans destroyed Iraq and stole Iraq's ancient
archaeology by destroying the Iraqi National Museum.
"This
time we are standing against America, a tyrant power that rules the
world. You Iraqi people will shame the Americans as the Palestinians
shame the Zionists.
"The
Zionists are baffled how to fight the Palestinian people and you the
Iraqi people, men and women, stand together against the invasion and
show your stance as much as you can by writing on walls, or making
positive demonstrations or not selling them anything or buying
anything from them, or by shooting them with your rifles and trying to
destroy their cannons and tanks.
"The
most important thing is that each Iraqi man or woman has his own duty,
child or older person, which he must do, and if they miss anything
they have to make up for it the next day, and if they miss a week they
have to make up for it the following week. Don't let the Americans
settle in Iraq.
"Each
day and every day you must express how you resist the occupation, and
the eye of God will be on you and on all people who take a stand
against the occupation.
"And
God will honor his people, and God will love the people who redeem
themselves, and we must not be sad and helpless, and God will love he
who works for victory. Victory is coming, God willing, and you have to
satisfy your God before yourself.
"Then
victory will come from the love of God. And of course God will ease
our task because there is no victory without the support of God.
"Work
hard, work hard through this to win paradise and then victory will be
visible. Work hard for God, Iraqi people, Iraqi women, Iraqi men, and
we are with you. We are working with you.
"Victory
is coming, God willing. They want to extinguish the light of God by
their tongues but God will complete his victory. Allahu akbar, Allah
is the greatest, and shame on the American government and a curse on
them until the Judgment Day."
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