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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5407)	4/4/2003 8:45:31 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 15987

Iraq's chilling threat Apr 5 2003 icwales.icnetwork.co.uk Nick Allen * At Central Command, Qatar, The Western Mail - The National Newspaper Of Wales We will commit a non-conventional act on them, not necessarily military. It will be an example to them. It is difficult for the US forces that are surrounded in Saddam airport to come out alive. There are very, very new ways which we are going to carry it out THE Iraqi regime last night issued a chilling warning of "non-conventional" attacks against Allied forces and offered the strongest evidence yet that Saddam Hussein was still alive. The warning came after United States forces seized Saddam International Airport 10 miles south of the Iraqi capital and renamed it Baghdad International Airport. Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf told a press conference in Baghdad, "We will commit a non-conventional act on them, not necessarily military. It will be an example to them. "It is difficult for the US forces that are surrounded in Saddam Airport to come out alive. I mean some kind of martyrdom, and there are very, very new ways which we are going to carry it out." Military sources said the regime could be planning to launch a wave of suicide bombings or chemical and biological weapons. A source at Allied Central Command in Qatar said, "If they resort to chemical weapons we, and the world, will consider all bets are off and we would have to take actions to stop them doing that again." Fears of chemical attacks were also raised as US troops found thousands of boxes of white powder at an industrial complex at Latifiyah, 25 miles south of Baghdad. Each box contained three vials of white powder along with Arabic instructions on the use of chemicals in war. Soldiers also found atropine, which is used to treat nerve-agent victims. The complex was visited by UN weapons inspectors less than three months ago. Saddam Hussein was shown on Iraqi television yesterday, apparently walking through cheering crowds in an attempt to rally support and show the world he was still alive and in control. The unverified footage showed a smiling Saddam, or one of his many lookalikes, in military uniform surrounded by people chanting his praise. Earlier footage showed Saddam apparently talking about the downing of a US Apache helicopter. He said, "Perhaps you remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon." The description matched claims that the Apache downed on March 24 was brought down by a farmer. The two US pilots were later paraded on television. Last night US officials were studying the footage but said they were not convinced it was Saddam or that it was not pre-recorded. They also stressed that the campaign was "against the regime, not just one man". The Iraqi call for "martyrs" came as three US special forces soldiers and a pregnant woman were killed by a suicide bomber at a checkpoint north-west of Baghdad. A US official said, "The woman, who was pregnant, ran from the car screaming in fear. Either she had been forced into the car or realised at the last minute what was happening and ran for her life. Then the car exploded and the driver, the woman and three soldiers were killed. It's horrible." The driver appeared to be the bomber but officials did not rule out that he, too, could have been forced to drive the vehicle and that the bomb was activated by remote control.