[A-List] Iraqi Resistance Report XI - May 14, 2003

[Bob Enoch <bobenoch@xxxxxxx>]

Iraqi Resistance Report XI - May 14, 2003

(Your Voice in a World where Money, Steel, and Fire have
turned Justice Mute)



Iraqi Resistance Report XI - May 14, 2003
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In this issue of FAV's Iraqi resistance report, we present several news
items
reportedly coming from Iraq:

- 2 bulletins from the Leadership of the Resistance and Liberation of Iraq,
and
- 2 messages, reportedly handwritten by Saddam Hussein.

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Al-Quds al-Arabi, London, Wednesday 7 May 2003.

The Leadership of the Resistance and Liberation of
Iraq:  Saddam Hussein to deliver two messages: one to
Iraq, the other to the Arab Nation and Islamic world.

London: al-Quds al-Arabi:  A press release from the
Leadership of the Resistance and Liberation of Iraq
has stated that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
is to deliver two handwritten messages shortly.  The
first is to be addressed to the people of Iraq, and
the second to the sons and daughters of the Arab
Nation and Islamic World Community.  The press
release, a copy of which was sent to "al-Quds
al-Arabi", stated that a message from Saddam would
contain a warning to foreign diplomats in Iraq that
they were going to be treated like invaders.  The
press release indicated that both letters would be
published very shortly.

A letter attributed to Saddam Hussein that al-Quds
al-Arabi published last week stated that treason had
brought about the fall of Baghdad and the defeat of
the Iraqis.

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Al-Quds al-Arabi, London, Wednesday 7 May 2003.


The Leadership of the Resistance and Liberation of
Iraq declares the start of a war of attrition in Iraq.

London: al-Quds al-Arabi:  The Leadership of the
Resistance and Liberation of Iraq has declared the
start of a war of attrition against the American
occupation forces.

It told of the following operations.

1. The shooting down of a CH-53 airplane near the
al-Baghdadi region in the province of al-Anbar, after
a rapid reconnaissance group fired a portable missile
at the aircraft.  It was observed to be on fire and
all aboard the airplane were killed.

2. The Lightning Mission Youth Group carried out four
strikes in the City of Baghdad, in which more than 12
American criminals were killed and a larger number
wounded in the al-Karradah district in Baghdad.

3. Our special units launched a quick operation in the
City of Tikrit, destroying two tanks, killing and
wounding those aboard.

4. Our forces have arrested a Kuwaiti criminal who was
providing support services to the American enemy.  He
is to be tried shortly in accordance with Islamic law.

5. Our forces carried out a missile strike against a
British personnel carrier burning it totally and
killing or wounding those aboard.

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Al-Quds al-Arabi, London, Saturday, 10 May 2003.


The following is the text of the second handwritten
letter attributed to former President Saddam Hussein,
which al-Quds al-Arabi received yesterday.



In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving.

"And they both said, Our Lord, we are afraid that he
will crack down upon us or tyrannize.  He said, fear
not, for I am with you both.  I hear and I see."
[al-Qur'an, 20:45-46].

>From Saddam Hussein to the people of great Iraq.

Iraq. 6 Rabi' al-Awwal 1424 H., 7 May 2003.

Rise to jihad!  Rise to jihad!  Rise to jihad!

Peace be upon you and the mercy of God and His
blessings!

To the people of great Iraq,

Your brothers jihad has begun every day to inflict
continuous losses on the American and British criminal
enemy.  Be with your brethren, for God is with them.

"Cling firmly together to Gods rope, and do not
separate.  Remember God's favor towards you when you
were enemies; He united your hearts so you became
brothers because of His favor.  You were on the brink
of a fiery pit, and He saved you from it!  Thus God
explains His signs to you, so that you may be guided."
[al-Qur'an, 3:103]

You see the cowardly occupier killing some of your
brothers, sisters, and children every day with his
hateful bullets, without his crimes being condemned by
those who conceal themselves under human rights, nor
even by those to whom they apply.

In your time, the time of greatness, of the united
homeland, and of security, there was no one who would
open the door to rob your country.

I say that the American and British invaders have
stolen from your wealth in antiquities and your oil,
indeed they have stolen from the banks more money than
they are declaring.  Let everyone know that your banks
were full of money in various currencies, belonging to
depositors and to the state.  The invaders, who will
steal your oil and your wealth, have taken the money
too.  It is not a new thing about Bush or Blair that
they are thieves, and they are murderers.

I am not revealing a secret now when I say that the
amount of money that the states around Iraq have spent
since 1968 and until now in order to harm Iraq because
of its noble Arab nationalist positions and to prevent
its rising, if that amount had been spent on the
liberation of Palestine and its reconstruction, that
task would have been accomplished.  Indeed it would
have been enough to liberate all the occupied Arab
lands from Israel and from others.

And while the Syrian regime embraced the
oppositionists, and they are traitors, and permitted
them to share information with the CIA and Britain, it
did not permit resistance fighters to remain even for
a matter of days.  The same thing has been done by the
Jordanian regime, which has been promoting the Zionist
program since it signed the shameful Wadi Araba
Agreement.  As to the Saudi regime, which permitted
the invaders to pollute the land of the Prophet (may
God's peace and blessings be upon him), it alone spent
against Muslim, Arab nationalist Iraq more than the
mind can envisage, in service to the Zionist enemy and
America.

At one time they said "the Americans are here to
protect us from Israel", but it became clear that the
intention was to facilitate aggression against Arab
Muslim Iraq.

As to the debauched, lying, traitorous, Kuwaiti regime
that has sold out its honor, its land, and its
dignity, we say that they are 'Alqamis [Ibn al-'Alqam
was a prime minister who negotiated the surrender of
Baghdad to the Mongol hordes in 1258] against the Arab
Nation, just as there was an 'Alqami in Baghdad among
the filthy traitors.  The ruling group in Iran
practiced hypocrisy and plotted against the Arabs and
Islam making use of all its viciousness.  It embraced
America's spies against Iraq.  It helped the blockade
of Iraq.  And in addition to that, they are the only
ones who benefit from what is going on. They took part
in the plot against the Taliban and they acted the
same with Iraq.  Now they will never have a role in
plotting except in favor of the regimes that are
opposed to American imperialism.  Over the course of
many years Turkey has permitted American and British
airplanes to kill your brothers and sisters and the
children of your country as have the cowardly traitors
of the Saudi ruling family.

We have suffered a great deal.  Now our brothers in
Syria will discover that they have done wrong against
us when they took part in the war against us in 1991,
and as Iraq was subjected to wars and blockade lasting
13 years, as well as during the continuous air raids
that allowed the aggressors to enter the country.
What happened to Iraq has afflicted everyone who wants
to live in dignity  whether they be regimes, parties
or even information media  with fear.  Those who have
submitted have submitted, and they have been compelled
even to find substitutes for such vocabulary words as
"jihad" and religion".

People of great Iraq!

There are many secrets that, if we told them, would
transform the "facts" and people's convictions about
certain persons and events.  But the reality now that
we must act upon is resistance to the occupation,
kicking them out and crushing them.  I ask, what has
Jordan gained by providing information against Iraq
and its leaders to the invaders?  What has the land of
Nejd and al-Hijaz gained by supporting the occupation
forces until now with instruments, tanks, airplanes,
food, and drink?  They lie and try to conceal their
crimes when they say "we are providing humanitarian
assistance".  As for the Iranian regime, beware!  They
are racists who have no connection with the Islamic
struggle.

People of great Iraq!

Only those who are resisting the occupation are
thinking in terms of a unified Iraq.  Whoever extends
his hand to the invaders is not thinking about a
unified Iraq.  Unite!  Respect one another!   And
cooperate!  Do not evict the person who possesses
rented property, and do not attack one another.  The
money of any one of you is a trust in the care of his
brother, or his neighbor, or of the whole of Iraq.
Remember that you, Arabs, Kurds, Turkomans, and other
citizens, are brothers and sisters in religion and the
homeland; and that you, Sunnis, and Shi'is are Muslims
and brothers and sisters in the homeland.

I wish to tell you that whoever says that they are
victims of the regime, do not believe them.  Some of
those with weak souls wish to find a place with the
occupier.  Still others came along with the occupier
in the first place.

As to the Iraqis abroad, I ask them to help their
brothers and sisters immediately and with advice.
Encourage them to resist the occupier.  Whoever is
able to help his brother, let him do so.

Everyone preserve the homeland.  Everyone mount
resistance.  Do not!  Do not!  Do not let them at your
oil and your wealth!  Resist!  Resist!  Resist!  And
boycott the occupier and his supporters.  This is a
religious and patriotic obligation.

In the Battle of the Airport, there took place a
battle of such enormity and ferocity, with your
brothers the sons of Iraq in the army and the people,
that the American criminal losses totaled more than
two thousand killed and a greater number injured,
their equipment destroyed, damaged, or captured.  If
the photographers had been allowed to take pictures at
the airport they would say that these were pictures of
a holocaust that was visited upon them in that battle.

But then there was the treachery from certain persons
who attached no importance to their religion, their
homeland, their Arab Nation, and their honor, and in
return for a price which, however large it was, would
still be a paltry sum in comparison with the harm that
they have inflicted upon Iraq and the Arab nation.

We fought with manliness, honor, nobility, and
greatness and we were not defeated so long as faith in
God remained in our souls, so long as the jihad was
our choice, and the resistance our response.

The invaders have created a situation of insecurity in
Iraq.  Theft, murder, rape and looting were among the
things they brought with them.  Dishonor will remain
their lot, and it will not pass without God's
reckoning.

Look how those who call themselves an Iraqi opposition
came offering support to the occupier so that he could
rob them, occupy their homeland, and split them off
from their Arab Nation and recognize the Zionist
entity!  Whether they wore the turbans of religious
leaders or American-style hats makes no difference so
long as they inflict on their people this pain and
occupation.

People of united Iraq!  All those who gathered to
decide the course of how you will be ruled are
traitors who facilitated the aggression and
occupation.  You will not find a single honorable
person among them.

I call on you, Iraqis, to make the mosques a center
for resistance and support for religion, Islam, and
the homeland.  Make the enemy feel that you hate him
in word and deed.

This great Iraq belongs to all of you; not to any
individual.  It is a support for and an integral part
of the Arab Nation and the Muslim world community.

And when there is time and a place to review our
experience, we will do that in democratic spirit that
does not submit to any foreigner or Zionist.

Support your religion and your brethren.  Advise the
rest of the Arabs and Muslims so that the rupture that
you can see does not happen.  Be for your Arab Nation
so that the people of the Nation will be for you.  And
if you see the enemy wants to take Syria or Jordan or
Saudi Arabia or Iran, help those people in resisting
him; for they, despite their regimes, are your
brethren in religion or Arabism.  Help Kuwait and the
rest of the Arabian Gulf states, and Egypt and Jordan
and Turkey, to get rid of the American enemy.

God is greatest!  Rise to jihad!  Rise to jihad!

Long live Iraq, Arab, Muslim, united!

Long live Palestine, Arab and free from the
Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River!

God is greatest!  And may the despicable be despised!

The second handwritten message,

After one handwritten message and one recorded
message.

Saddam Hussein

6 Rabi' al-Awwal 1424.  7 May 2003.

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Al-Quds al-Arabi, London, Monday 12 May 2003.

The following is the text of the third handwritten
message attributed to Saddam Hussein that al-Quds
al-Arabi received yesterday.



In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving.

   And if they turn away, say: 'God is sufficient for me,
   there is no god but Him, in Him I put my trust and he
   is the Lord of the tremendous throne.' [al-Qur'an, 9:129]

>From Saddam Hussein to the Great Arab people and the
people of Iraq, an integral part of this people.

To those who remain fervent on behalf of this Arab
Nation, to all of you, Peace be upon you and the mercy
of God and His blessings!

I send this message of mine to you in the difficult
conditions through which the Arab Nation is passing,
and Iraq is a part of this nation.  I write to you
this evening, in which the night has closed in to
envelop us in its shade, without electricity, making
writing a difficult undertaking in the pitch dark.

But the struggle will never cease. The resistance will
never end.  And night must indeed be followed by day.

Great Arab people!

I have pledged to God to die a martyr and not
surrender to the cowardly and murderous American and
British enemy.  If the first round was dominated by
the treason committed by people who sold out their
religion, their nation, their homeland, and their
honor; the conclusion will be written by none other
than the Believers in God, by those who will expel the
murderous invader thieves.  As I say farewell to young
men and women who go off to carry out missions against
the murderous, cowardly enemy, I remember at every
moment pure Arab, Islamic history.  The future is
built by people like those, just as it will be built
by the children of the mujahid and great Palestinian
people.

The Arab states neighboring Iraq, and also those that
do not neighbor Iraq, are traitors who have unleashed
an opposition against themselves.  When the aggression
began, they were among the aggressor forces.  These
states facilitated the communications and the
movements of those traitors with the CIA, the Mossad,
and British Intelligence.  Iran and Turkey in the same
way facilitated these communications.

It is not strange that those whom Iran had embraced
entered Iraq under the protection of the American and
British forces.  The same was done by Turkey, Syria,
Jordan, and the depraved Saudi ruling family, and by
hose who have sold out their land and honor in the
regime of occupied Kuwait.  I confirm to you that the
first-rank leaders did not surrender or betray.  They
were handed over by traitors or their hand-over was
carried out by the two regimes in Syria and Jordan
along the borders. I am saying this so that you will
know that the entry of the enemy into Baghdad was not
easy even with the existence of treachery.  We fought
while we were under blockade for 13 years, and we now
face more than 500,000 criminal invaders and more than
one intelligence agency has worked against us.  In
fact all the Arab intelligence agencies  those
surrounding Iraq and those further off  would supply
American intelligence with free information under the
heading of showing their devotion.

This is in addition to the equipment and means of
communication that we were being denied.  But in spite
of that, if it had not been for the treason, we would
have been able to stand steadfast for years bleeding
the enemy and not allowing him to enter Baghdad.

After what has happened, I call on those of you who
still retain their fervor for your Arab nation and
your religion, I call on you directly  and I do not
call on your regimes  to act under the banner of
jihad, the banner of 'God is Greatest', each in
accordance with his ability, capability, and the
measure of his or her faith.  This jihad begins for
everyone with the following:

1. Boycotting the American, British, and Zionist
enemy.

2. Refusing to give any concessions to any of their
personnel or institutions, even refusing to transport
them in taxis or to rent out housing to them.

3. Refusing to hold talks with any of them, so long as
the slogan of such talks is not "No to the American,
British, and Israeli occupation!"

4. Boycotting the goods of these states and of all
those who support the aggression.

5. Non-cooperation with any Iraqi individual,
political party, or group if they speak for the
criminal occupier or if they agree with or support the
occupation.

6. Make your governments hear your voices and make
them remember when you are with them that you are all
sons and daughters of one country and one Arab Nation.

7. The real struggle must not threaten public or
private property.  As to those who embark on jihad
with their spirits in the path of God and the Arab
Nation, their behavior and means are known to all of
us.

During the start of the aggression, I used to hear
your voices, great Arab people of ours, and I saw the
very manly and dignified positions that you took.  But
unfortunately, the Arab regimes were not up to your
level of understanding and feeling.

So I did not ask the president of Egypt to fight on my
behalf, but we did ask that he prevent the passage of
the invaders' weapons through the Suez Canal and
through Egyptian airspace. Yet 95 percent of the
forces and equipment that killed your brothers and
sisters in Iraq passed through the Suez Canal. The
feebleness of the Egyptian regime was one of the
reasons for these situations.  Since the passing of
the historic leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, and despite
the differences of opinion in assessing his
experience, he was able, on the basis of his personal
purity and clarity, to commit Egypt with all its
weight to make of it a leader of the Arab people and
of those who love the cause of liberation from
occupation.  I say frankly that the Islamic world
community and Arab Nation have never brought forth
regimes so treacherous as those that we have witnessed
in the regimes of Egypt, the Saudi dynasty, the Sabah
dynasty [in Kuwait], the Jordanian regime, and the
regime of Qatar  which has the duty of washing off
the disgrace of the permission it granted to the
criminals of the aggression to plan their crimes and
their aggression against Iraq.  Nor has the Islamic
Community ever brought forth regimes so treacherous
and contemptible as the regimes in Iran and Turkey.

Our great Arab people!

Let your slogan be "No to the occupation in word and
deed!"  Let that begin with the man in the street and
rise to the communications media.

Expose the aggressor!  Do not spread their lies; all
of them are murderers!

You whose weapon is the word, reject the occupation
and aggression!

Brother and sister Arab intellectuals, writers,
journalists, photographers, artists!  You are called
upon to expose the cowardly occupier and his crimes.
Do not permit those who support the occupier, or who
offer excuses for him, to exist in your midst.  You in
the sports field, reject the occupier!  Boycott him
and his teams and their supporters. Let the boycott
encompass all fields so that all your voices will rise
against the occupation!

You are our hope  not the regimes.  If the leadership
of Iraq has been subjected to all that it has been
subjected to because of its patriotic and Arab
nationalist stances against imperialism and Zionism,
then the path of jihad will continue to be the path of
this leadership as we have chosen our slogan to be
"Martyrs in the path of God, or jihad until victory!"

God is greatest!

Long live the Arab people!

Long live the Iraqi people, who are an inseparable
part of the Arab people!

Long live Palestine, free and Arab, from the
Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River!

And may the despicable be despised!

The third handwritten message.

Saddam Hussein.

8 Rabi' al-Awwal 1424.

9 May 2003.