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BAGHDAD, April 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein on
Sunday vowed to defend his regime against
possible military attacks
from the United States, the state-run Iraq TV
reported.
"We will fight against them (the enemy) with
missiles, planes,
stones ... and all what we have and we will defeat
them," Saddam
was quoted ed as saying.
Saddam made the
remarks at a meeting with his younger son Qusay,
who heads the elite
Republican Guard and the military bureau of the
ruling Arab Baath
Socialist Party, and senior military officials
including Minister of
Military Industrialization Abdul Tawab Mulla
Howeish and Defense
Minister Sultan Hashem Ahmed.
"If half of your air
defense capabilities are destroyed, you
will fight with the other
half. If the other half is also
destroyed, you will fight by using
daggers," Saddam said.
U.S. President George W. Bush, at
a joint press conference with
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on
Saturday, reiterated that the
U.S. policy was to topple the Saddam
regime and said all options
were on the table.
Bush
has branded Iraq as part of an "axis of evil" and strongly
warned that
Iraq may become the next target of the U.S.-led war on
terror after
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