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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (7560)	4/4/2003 10:26:18 AM
From: Techplayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

thanks for the link. The defense minister is out with this today: 10:14 AM EST/7:14 PM Iraq: Iraq Information Minister Issues Chilling Warning of "non-conventional" actions The headline is Sky's, but I watched it and it was pretty chilling, mostly because the Information Minister had this weird smirky smile on his face the whole time as he was saying it. The reporters kept asking what it would be and he said, "I won't give away the secret." Here is the story on the Sky site: Iraq has warned it will take non-conventional action against US troops at Baghdad International Airport tonight. Saddam Hussein's information minister said: "Tonight we will carry out something that is non-conventional against them, not military. It will be a great example to them." It was not clear what Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf meant by "non-conventional". Asked if Iraq would use weapons of mass destruction, he said: "No, not at all. But we will conduct kind of martyrdom operations." US-led forces have been on alert for possible Iraqi use of biological or chemical weapons, which Baghdad denies it possesses. Iraq's main spokesman warned that US forces are isolated at Baghdad International Airport. "Unless they surrender quickly, I don't think there's any chance that they will survive," he said. "We consider it an isolated island. They are completely surrounded