Saturday, April 05, 2003

Late Night with Muhammad

Is anyone else LOVING this guy?

How much fun is HE turning out to be!!!

Information Minister Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf made his regular daily foray to the Palestine Hotel to put things into perspective, Iraqi style. His main point was that the American capture of the airport on Friday had been reversed by an Iraqi counterattack using regular units and "a very innovative way of war" involving suicide bombers.

General Renuart, in Qatar, said today that the Americans remained in firm control of the airport, and that they would continue moving into Baghdad as and when they chose.

But Mr. Sahhaf said, essentially, that the Americans were in the world of make-believe.

"We have defeated them, in fact we have crushed them in the place of Saddam International Airport," he said today. "We have pushed them outside the whole area of the airport."

To drive home this claim of American desperation, he added this account of the battle: "They have done everything crazy, everything crazy, in order to lessen the pressure we have put on their troops."

The Iraqi strategy, Mr. Sahhaf said, was to drive the Americans back to pockets of resistance outside Baghdad. One place mentioned was Abu Ghraib, a town about 15 miles west of the capital, notorious as the site of the grimmest prison in Mr. Hussein's gulag.

Travelers reaching Baghdad in recent days described American troops with tanks at checkpoints on the expressway that passes Abu Ghraib on the way to Jordan. But Mr. Sahhaf said that the American units there, and at two other locations he named as Hadithi and Qadissiyah, were surrounded by Iraqi troops.

"We nailed them down" he said.

Keep this in mind, in case WHAT he's saying isn't amusing enough...those 27 microphones he has taped to his podium? Dead. They are connected to NOTHING. Nada. He is broadcasting to no one. Just Iraq.

I'm loving this guy...

Kansas @ 5:29 PM