- Iraq Calls for the Formation of Suicide Squads to Strike
American Targets and Interests
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- An editorial in the Iraqi weekly Al-Iqtisadi [The Economist],
which is owned by Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday, called for the formation
of suicide [fidaiyoon] squads to launch broad-based sabotage operations
against the United States, its friends, and interests.(1)
- As an introduction, the weekly highlighted the growing
Arab, regional, and international opposition to American threats against
Arab and Muslim countries, and Iraq, in particular. The following are excerpts
from the article:
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- "...The United States practices international terrorism
against the whole world. By doing so, it turns peoples and governments
into hostages, thereby causing the suspension of international activities
and generating fears and instability in the international domain. This
conduct has similarities with Hitler and Nazism which led the world to
a world war."
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- "...It is unlikely that the United Nations will
establish an international tribunal to prosecute the U.S., but it is not
difficult for any country to indict it [the U.S.] internationally and to
mobilize other countries to do so despite the ridiculous international
decision that protects American forces from their crimes against others..."
- "...The confrontation with the aggressors should
transcend the means of condemnation and rejection, particularly in the
Arab and Muslim street. They should use all means-and they are numerous-against
the aggressors, including boycott, closing air and sea ports to civilian
ships and airplanes that belong to the U.S. and its allies, striking their
economic interests and establishments, and considering everything American
as a military target, including embassies, installations, and American
companies, and to create suicide/martyr [fidaiyoon] squads to attack American
military and naval bases inside and outside the region, and mine the waterways
to prevent the movement of war ships..."(2)
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- Endnotes:
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- (1) Al-Iqtisadi, September 5, 2002. The editorial was
signed by Munthir 'Aref. It should be recalled that the leadership of
the Ba'ath Socialist Party [the ruling party in Iraq] as far back as last
April called to "hit" American interests in the Arab homeland,
Al-Hayat, April 8, 2002.
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- (2) This report is excerpted from MEMRI's Iraq News Wire
No. 9. For more on Iraq, visit: www.memri.org/iraq.html.
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