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To: KonKilo who wrote (11317)3/29/2003 1:54:36 PM
From: Bucky Katt  Read Replies (1) of 48461
 
Iraq says officer was suicide bomber, vows more to come



BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq said the suicide bomber who killed US soldiers Saturday was an army officer, as deserters claimed President Saddam Hussein's forces were being ordered to carry out such attacks at gunpoint.




"The whole Iraqi people, including its women, will transform themselves into fedayeen (martyrdom fighters)," Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan told a Baghdad press conference.

"Anybody who carries out a martyrdom operation does not need orders" he said.

State television said Ali Jaafar Musa Hammadi al-Numani was the man who had blown himself up in a taxi at a US army checkpoint near the holy city of Najaf, claiming 11 soldiers had been killed.

US forces said four of its soldiers died in the attack.

Numani wanted to "teach the invaders a lesson in the same manner of our Palestinian martyrdom fighters" who have carried out suicide attacks against Israel, the television said.

"After kissing the holy Koran" he "drove a booby-trapped car toward enemy tanks and armoured personnel at the outskirts of Najaf," the television report said. "This is a blessed start."

Numani was posthumously awarded two medals of honour, it said, including the Decoration of Umm al-Maarek or the Mother of All Battles, as Baghdad calls the 1991 Gulf War.
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