The Top 50 Quotes from the Iraqi Information Minister - Mohammed
Saeed al-Sahaf
These are all true quotes from the Iraqi Information Minister,
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. Only in the sense that he actually
said them.
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- "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."
- "They're coming to surrender or be burned in their
tanks."
- "No I am not scared, and neither should you be!"
- "Be assured. Baghdad is safe, protected"
- "Who are in control, they are not in control of anything
- they don't even control themselves!"
- "We are not afraid of the Americans. Allah has condemned
them. They are stupid. They are stupid" (dramatic pause)
"and they are condemned."
- "The Americans, they always depend on a method what
I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do
not in fact repeat their lies."
- "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."
- "I can assure you that those villains will recognize,
will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid
they are and how they are pretending things which have never
taken place."
- "We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters
and their shovels - We have driven them back."
- "The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning
to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils
because they are booby traps," he said, adding that the
British and American forces were "immoral mercenaries"
and "war criminals" for such behavior. I am not
talking about the American people and the British people,"
he said. "I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They
have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils,
they are booby traps to kill the children."
- "We have them surrounded in their tanks"
- "The American press is all about lies! All they tell
is lies, lies and more lies!"
- "Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein
will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great
honor and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely
of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts."
- "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. But at the end we are the
people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who
are besieging us."
- "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."
- "They are trying to fool you. They are showing any
old pictures of buildings. They even went into the VIP section
of the airport, just because Saddam Hussein may have sat in
such and such a chair or slept in such and such a bed"
- "We went into the airport and crushed them, we cleaned
the WHOOOLE place out, they were slaughtered"
- "Yes, the american troops have advanced further. This
will only make it easier for us to defeat them"
- "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."
- "They (the U.S.) are deceiving their soldiers and their
officers that aggressing against Iraq and invading Iraq will
be like a picnic. This is a very stupid lie they are telling
their soldiers, what they are facing is a definite death."
- "Listen, this explosion does not frighten us any langer.
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."
- "We will slaughter them, Bush Jr. and his international
gang of bastards!"
- "The forces of American colonialism began to drop containers
that produce a sound explosion, a very huge sound. I remind
you that they said that their strategy is based on shock and
awe. Those failed ones manufactured a type of container that
has an explosive substance, which they drop. They cause a
very huge explosion in terms of sound, as if the universe
was shaken. After a while, you go out and you don't find anything.
You find some nails, screws, pieces of metal, but the important
thing here is the sound. Those failed ones think that through
the huge sound explosion, people would be shocked and consequently
would collapse and be defeated. What happened? The contrary.
The fighters..., the masses..., and the heroic sons of the
Iraqi tribes discovered this game. They will turn it against
the American louts so as to shock them. Wait for surprises,
God willing, to see how the US game will fail."
- "The shock has backfired on them. They are shocked
because of what they have seen. No one received them with
roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets. Now,
the game has been exposed. Awe will backfire on them. This
is the boa snake. We will extend it further and cut it the
appropriate way."
- "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."
- "As for the mercenaries who advanced to the perimeters
of Saddam International Airport, I would like to remind you
of something. I will mention something that will make the
picture clear for you and help you to understand what took
place at Saddam International Airport. Most of you probably
saw the American movie "Wag the Dog". I hope you
remember it. Some of their acts that took place at dawn yesterday
and today are similar to what happened in "Wag the Dog".
If we succeed in keeping them isolated on that island, and
we are determined to do so, we might let them taste a second
mini Dien Bien Phu tonight. The European journalists remember
it well. Our estimates are that none of them will come out
alive unless they surrender to us quickly. They are completely
surrounded now. This morning, the number of armoured personnel
carriers that were destroyed, along with their occupants,
is eight. The number of the tanks destroyed is 11."
- "Tonight, we will do something unconventional against
them. This means: not by the military. We will do something
that I believe will become a pretty example for those mercenaries.
I would not be giving out a secret when I say that action
in the dark against such mercenaries is effective, not through
the action of armies. I say that dropping down those mercenaries
in a surprise fashion at Saddam Airport without accurate calculations
is largely meant for showing things. It's a showy operation.
It is a kind of surprise muscle flexing to the world to show
it that the shock and awe operation is indeed successful.
May they be accursed. Through this operation [shock and awe],
they sent a number of their villains and mercenaries to be
butchered. Again, and according to my early estimates, unless
the remaining part of their soldiers surrender, the chance
for their survival is very slim. The surprising thing is that
after they threw their soldiers into a place where they are
not aware of the real results, the villainous Americans, like
Powell and the others, sat in Europe to discuss how to divide
Iraq as spoils after the war [laughing]. This means what's
post-war. The post-war [Iraq] will be the same current Iraq
under the leadership of President Saddam Husayn."
- "We will pursue them as war criminals. We will work
with all the free people in the world, and they are many,
who want someone to bell the cat [i.e.; to do a daring deed],
and now we are belling the cat, according to the famous [Arabic]
saying so as to rid the UN of those villains. After Iraq aborts
the invasion that is being carried out by the American and
British villains, the USA will no longer be a superpower.
Its deterioration will be rapid. I say to those villains who
are meeting in Europe, thinking of launching psychological
war and brainwashing: wait. Do not be hasty because your disappointment
will be huge. You will reap nothing from this aggressive war,
which you launched on Iraq, except for disgrace and defeat.
Iraq will continue to exist. Its civilization is 10,000 years
old. It will not be changed by villains like the US and British
villains."
- "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."
- "We have destroyed 50 tanks today. That 5-ohhh tanks"
[while holding up his fingers]
- "They are superpower of villains. They are superpower
of Al Capone."
- "Don't believe anything! We will chase the rascals
back to London!"
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