Actual
Quotes From the Iraqi Information Minister
(aka 'Baghdad Bob')
"There are no American infidels in
Baghdad. Never!"
"My feelings - as usual -
we will slaughter them all"
"Our initial assessment is
that they will all die"
"I blame Al-Jazeera - they
are marketing for the Americans!"
"God will roast their
stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis."
'We have destroyed 2
tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters and their shovels - We have driven
them back."
"Surrender or be burned in
their tanks."
"No I am not scared and
neither should you be!"
"We have them surrounded
in their tanks"
Britain "is not worth an
old shoe."
Of U.S. troops: "They are
most welcome. We will butcher them."
"We will welcome them with
bullets and shoes."
"Washington has thrown
their soldiers on the fire"
"These cowards have no
morals. They have no shame about lying"
"They're not even [within]
100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in
Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others an
illusion."
"They do not even have
control over themselves! Do not believe them!"
"Faltering forces of
infidels cannot just enter a country of 26 million people and lay
besiege to them! They are the ones who will find themselves under siege.
Therefore, in reality whatever this miserable Rumsfeld has been saying,
he was talking about his own forces. Now even the American command is
under siege."
"They tried to bring a
small number of tanks and personnel carriers in through al-Durah but
they were surrounded and most of their infidels had their throats cut."
"We made them drink poison
last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the
Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."
"On this occasion, I am not going to mention the number of the infidels
who were killed and the number of destroyed vehicles. The operation
continues"
"We're giving them a real
lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties
we have inflicted."
"I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have
started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage
them to commit more suicides quickly."
"Their infidels are
committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad. Be assured,
Baghdad is safe, protected."
"NO", snapped Mr al-Sahaf,
"We have retaken the airport. There are NO Americans there. I will take
you there and show you. IN ONE HOUR!"
"We defeated them yesterday. God willing, I will provide you with more
information. I swear by God, I swear by God, those who are staying in
Washington and London have thrown these mercenaries in a crematorium."
"Please, please! The
Americans are relying on what I called yesterday a desperate and stupid
method."
"They will be burnt. We
are going to tackle them"
"We blocked them inside
the city. Their rear is blocked"
"Desperate Americans"
"Today we slaughtered them
in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport. The force
that was in the airport, this force was destroyed."
"Their casualties and
bodies are many."
[On surrenders] "Those are
not Iraqi soldiers at all. Where did they bring them from?"
"Just look carefully, I
only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not
become like them. Once again, I blame Al-Jazeera before it ascertains
what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such
a role."
"Search for the truth. I
tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you
yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport."
"You can go and visit
those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi
checkpoints. Everything is okay."
"This boa, the American
columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west,
south and west of Basra....Now even the American command is under siege.
We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them
here and they chase us there."
"By God, I think this is
rather very unlikely. This is merely a prattle. The fact is that as soon
as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter
them....Wherever they go they will find themselves encircled."
"Listen, this explosion
does not frighten us any longer. The cruise missiles do not frighten
anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over
the past two days we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit
their target."
"Blair...is accusing us of
executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not
executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get
killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get
captured."
"They fled. The American
louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the
Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the
cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this."
"The louts of
colonialism."
"It has been rumored that
we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we
do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into
Kuwait."
"W. Bush, this man is a
war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial"
"I think the British
nation has never been faced with a tragedy like this fellow [Blair]."
"The United
Nations....[is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans."
"They are sick in their
minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you
this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind."
"They are superpower of
villains. They are superpower of Al Capone."
"Iraqi fighters in Umm
Qasr are giving the hordes of American and Brtish mercenaries the taste
of definite death. We have drawn them into a quagmire and they will
never get out of it."
"What they say about a
breakthrough [in Najaf] is completely an illusion. They are sending
their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these
sacred places . . . they are trying to crack the buildings by flying low
over them."
"Their forces committed
suicide by the hundreds. ... The battle is very fierce and God made us
victorious. The fighting continues."
"Yesterday, we slaughtered
them and we will continue to slaughter them."
"We will push those
crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp"
"When we were making the
law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the
grandfathers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves"
About Bush: "the leader of
the international criminal gang of bastards."
About Bush and Rumsfeld:
"Those only deserve to be hit with shoes."
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