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Friends, Following is the full transcript of an audio tape allegedly from Saddam Hussein sent to an Australian newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald. The newspaper also has the audio recording, and it does sound very much like Saddam Hussein in accent and context. HZ ----------------------------------------------------- http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/07/1051987718936.html Full transcript of the Saddam tape May 7 2003 "In the name of God most gracious most merciful we praise our messen gers and their followers in life. In the next life they will have justice. Iraqi people, great Iraqi people, women and men, and the Iraqi armed forces and all people who want to change their attitude about their enemies, peace be upon you all. I don't want to talk in details about the occupation and why and how, and I am going to focus on how to face these invaders and kick them out from Iraq, coughs, I addressed some messages before, many messages before. Some of them were by my voice and some were addressed to the mass media, but we know and you know very well the mass media in the whole world is controlled by the Zionists, and especially by its headquarters in the White House. Therefore we have tried hard to address our messages by many many ways, and some of them reached you people in the Iraqi governates, and some will reach them sooner. In any case, it sounds as if we have to go back to the secret style of struggle that we began our life with. Through this secret means I am talking to you from inside Great Iraq and I say to you, the main task for you, Arab and Kurd, Shia and Sunni, Muslim and Christian and the whole Iraqi people of all religions, your main task is to kick the enemy out from our country. You have to believe that he who is working with the foreigners is working against you. He is not only a servant for foreigners, he is an enemy of God and an enemy of the people as well. Reject these people and reject anything that will divide you, Iraqi people. Be united all under your flag, under the Iraqi flag, under the slogan Allahu Akhbar, all in one trench. The Iraqi people must keep their own civilisation in which they are one country, one people, as they are now. Your enemy came to Iraq and they thought that the Iraqi people would receive them with flowers but they were surprised. Some people now are changing their minds about the Americans and the occupation. We have no option but to struggle and satisfy God and high principles and ourselves as well. Now, some poeple who supported the Americans and the occupiers are now changing their minds, step by step. Now everyone is going to change their minds, and they know what is best for them and their family. Their familiy is Iraq. But they will not understand everything unless they know the whole truth about themselves. The Iraqi people challenged the whole world by celebrating the 28th of April (Saddam's birthday) and asserted that this festivity was not forced on them by Saddam Hussein or by the authorities, It was an Iraqi decision, because they consider Saddam Hussein as a brother or as a father to them. And this is just to express of their free will that nobody forced them to do it or to live in any way against their will. It is their true attitude towards Saddam Hussein. The Iraqis want to challenge the occupation and say to all humanity, yes, the occupiers could occupy Iraq, but they will never be able to change the Iraqi heart's love for Saddam Hussein and their country. Some of these people admired the west and described it as the free world, but it is not. And genuine people would never care about the western media, because it is controlled by Zionists. Especially the two administrations in Washington and London, which are controlled by the Zioinist media. They tell many, many lies, and you Iraqi people have won your moral battle because the Americans destroyed Iraq and stole Iraq's ancient archaeology by destroying the Iraqi National Museum. This time we are standing against America, a tryant power that rules the world. You Iraqi people will shame the Americans as the Palestinians shame the Zionists. The Zionists are baffled how to fight the Palestiniain people and you the Iraqi people, men and women, stand together against the invasion and show your stance as much as you can by writing on walls, or making positive demonstrations or not selling them anything or buying anything from them, or by shooting them with your rifles and trying to destroy their cannons and tanks. The most import ant thing is that each Iraqi man or woman has his own duty, child or older person, which he must do, and if they miss anything they have to make up for it the next day, and if they miss a week they have to make up for it the following week. Don't let the Americans settle in Iraq. Each day and every day you must express how you resist the occupation, and the eye of God will be on you and on all people who take a stand against the occu pation. And god will honour his people, and god will love the people who redeem themselves, and we must not be sad and helpless, and God will love he who works for victory. Victory is coming, God willing, and you have to satisfy your God before yourself. Then victory will come from the love of god. And of course God will ease our task because there is no victory without the support of God. Work hard, work hard through this to win paradise and then victory will be visible. Work hard for God, Iraqi people, Iraqi women, Iraqi men, and we are with you. We are working with you. Victory is coming, God will ing. They want to extinguish the light of God by their tongues but God will complete his victory. Allahu akbhar, Allah is the greatest, and shame on the American government and a curse on them until judgement day." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk