[A-List] Fw: Iraq Struggle Against Anglo-American Forces Could Last Years: Envoy

["Christopher Black" <bar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Iraq Struggle Against Anglo-American Forces Could Last Years: Envoy


> http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_231154,001300180029.htm
>
> The Hindustan Times
> April 10, 2003
>
> Iraq's struggle could last years: Baghdad's ambassador
> in Hanoi
> Agence France-Presse
> Hanoi, April 10
>
> -"If we lose Baghdad, we will keep fighting in other
> cities. It could last one month, one year, ten years."
> -"The US forces do not want the press to say what is
> really happening. Why do they send tanks to the hotel?
> There is nothing to occupy there. They only allow
> journalists to cover the areas they control."
>
>
>
>
> The Iraqi people will keep fighting against the
> Anglo-American coalition despite the fact that they
> have entered Baghdad, Iraq's ambassador in Hanoi said
> on Thursday.
>
> "Fighting is still going on in Baghdad. The battle of
> the capital has not ended yet," Salah Elmukhtar,
> Iraq's ambassador in Hanoi said.
>
> Iraq's UN ambassador Mohamed al-Douri said on
> Wednesday, "The game is over", after US-led forces
> took control of Baghdad with Saddam Hussein nowhere to
> be found.
>
> But Salah Elmukhtar disagreed: "Iraqi people are all
> against the foreign invasion," he said, saying scenes
> of jubilation were organized by "Iraqi mercenaries
> trained outside of Iraq by US forces."
>
> "If we lose Baghdad, we will keep fighting in other
> cities. It could last one month, one year, ten years."
>
> "We haven't had any direct contacts recently with
> Baghdad because all our telephone lines have been
> destroyed. But we have some primitive ways of
> communicating. We know what to do in such
> circumstances," he said.
>
> The envoy believed the international press coverage
> could not be accurate.
>
> "There is no coverage of what is happening because all
> the TVs and radios have left after the Americans
> occupied the Palestine Hotel," he added.
>
> Two cameramen, one from the Reuters news agency and
> the other working for Spanish television station
> Telecinco, were killed after a US tank fired Tuesday
> on the Palestine Hotel where most foreign journalists
> are based.
>
> "The US forces do not want the press to say what is
> really happening. Why do they send tanks to the hotel?
> There is nothing to occupy there. They only allow
> journalists to cover the areas they control", the
> Iraqi envoy added.
>
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>
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