BAGHDAD, June 25 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein on Tuesday warned that plots by the United States and
Israel against Iraq will increase, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA)
reported.
����"The U.S.-Israeli plots against you (Iraqis) will increase because
the United States and Israel see that all does not work andsee that you
are united and organized though you are under the embargo, developing and
finding solution for every problem," said Saddam at a cabinet meeting.
����Iraq has been under U.N. embargo since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
����Iraq and the United States have been sworn enemies since the 1991
Gulf War, during which the U.S.-led multinational coalition army defeated
Iraq and evicted its troops out of Kuwait after a seven-month occupation.
����U.S. President George W. Bush has branded Iraq as part of an "axis
of evil" and Saddam as an "evil" person, while strongly warning that the
United States may unleash military onslaught on Iraq again.
����According to a recent Washington Post report, Bush has ordered the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to undertake a comprehensive and covert
program to overthrow Saddam this year.
����Saddam has remained adamant over repeated U.S. threats to
topplehim. Enditem
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