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The Baghdad Bob

The 'war' such as it was, would be as much remembered for the Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf who fondly got to be known as the "Baghdad Bob". Actual quotes.

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The Baghdad Bob
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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 theAmericans!"

"God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands ofIraqis."

'We have destroyed 2 tanks, fighter planes, 2 helicopters andtheir 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 butcherthem."

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"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 aboutlying"

"They're not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They arenot in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others anillusion."

"They do not even have control over themselves! Do notbelieve them!"

"Faltering forces of infidels cannot just enter a countryof 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."

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"They tried to bring a small number of tanks and personnelcarriers 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'ssoldiers 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 ofdestroyed vehicles. The operation continues"

"We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn'taccurately 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 thewalls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly."

"Their infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds onthe gates of Baghdad. Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected."

"NO", snapped Mr al-Sahaf, "We have retaken theairport. 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, Iswear by God, those who are staying in Washington and London have thrown these mercenaries in acrematorium."

"Please, please! The Americans are relying on what I calledyesterday a desperate and stupid method."

"They will be burnt. We are going to tackle them"

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"We blocked them inside the city. Their rear isblocked"

"Desperate Americans"

"Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out ofSaddam 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. Wheredid they bring them from?"

"Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Donot repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame Al-Jazeera before it ascertainswhat takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role."

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"Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always askyou to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam'sairport."

"You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothingat all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay."

"This boa, the American columns, are being besieged betweenBasra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra....Now even the American command is under siege. Weare 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 ismerely a prattle. The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughterthem....Wherever they go they will find themselves encircled."

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"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 overthe past two days we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target."

"Blair...is accusing us of executing British soldiers. Wewant to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killedbecause they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured."

"They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning thefighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is thecowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this."

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"The louts of colonialism."

"It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles intoKuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired intoKuwait."

"W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see thathe is brought to trial"

"I think the British nation has never been faced with atragedy like this fellow [Blair]."

"The United Nations....[is] a place for prostitution underthe feet of Americans."

"They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind."

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"They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of AlCapone."

"Iraqi fighters in Umm Qasr are giving the hordes ofAmerican and Brtish mercenaries the taste of definite death. We have drawn them into a quagmire and they willnever get out of it."

"What they say about a breakthrough [in Najaf] iscompletely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on thesesacred places . . . they are trying to crack the buildings by flying low over them."

"Their forces committed suicide by the hundreds. ... Thebattle is very fierce and God made us victorious. The fighting continues."

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"Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue toslaughter them."

"We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into theswamp"

"When we were making the law, when we were writing theliterature and the mathematics the grandfathers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves"

About Bush: "the leader of the international criminal gangof bastards."

About Bush and Rumsfeld: "Those only deserve to be hit withshoes."

Actual quotes compiled by
WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com

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