In a taped message, Hussein urges Iraqis to expel occupation
Iraq, Military, 7/5/2003

The toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has urged the Iraqi people to resist the American and British occupation and expel them from Iraq, just one day after the US allotted a sum of 25 million dollars as a prize for his capture.

Saddam Hussein said in a voice recording broadcast by al-Jazira TV that he is still in Iraq with a group of what he called his "comrades," but he is unable to speak to the Iraqis. He added he left the chair of rule for the sake of his people but never gave up principles and values.

Saddam Hussein noted in his tape to what he described resistance cells on a large scale. He called on the Iraqis to stand with these cells and to hide activities conducted by those who execute operations against the invading forces.

He also called on those who are forced to dealing with the American forces to return back to the right path, and warned them against inflected results. He urged various Iraqi people sects to resort to quiet dialogue among themselves, at the meantime or in the after- liberation phase, according to him.

He also tried to explain the real reasons behind the foreign intervention in Iraq.

This is the first recorded voice for Saddam Hussein since the collapse of Baghdad three months before. The recording started with saying that the date of recording was June 14.

Commenting on the recording, the chairman of the former Iraqi intelligence Wafiq al-Sameraa told al-Jazira that the tape is recorded by Saddam Hussein's voice, stressing what he had said earlier that the toppled Iraqi President is still alive.

However, al-Samaree underplayed the importance of the message addressed by Hussein through the tape to the Iraqi people and described it as non-sense. He said the Iraqi people will not pay attention to it because of the feelings of hatred they have from him.

But the chief editor of the London- Based al-Quds al-Arabi, Abdul Bari Atwan, said that a few group of the Iraqis might not love Saddam, but the majority share feelings that are hostile to the US and the American presence in Iraq.

He said in a telephone interview with al-Jazira that Saddam's partisans are rearranging their lines, in remarks to the escalated attacks against the American forces in Iraq.

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