Saddam prepares for guerrilla warfare with 40,000 fighters.

05/08/03: (FAV) Paris 

Muhit An intelligence report received by the American Central 
Intelligence Agency has disclosed on the authority of their secret 
sources that the deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is still alive 
and has formed a new secret leadership in preparation for waging a 
Vietnam-style guerrilla war against American forces to be launched next 
17 July with 40,000 fighters. The force is to be led by the Defense 
Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad.  

The magazine al-Watan al-'Arabi in its issue coming out tomorrow said 
that the date for the beginning of the guerrilla war coincides with the 
anniversary of the Baathist revolution and seizure of power, and the 
anniversary of Saddam Hussein's ascension to the Iraqi presidency in 
1979 as the successor of Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr. Until now, no one has 
conclusive proof as to the fate of Saddam Hussein and his two sons. It 
is said that he was killed during an air raid on a place where he was 
meeting with his commanders in the Baghdad district of al-Mansour. 
But there were sightings of him after that, in the A'zamiyyah district 
of the Iraqi capital on the same day that American forces entered Baghdad 
airport. Rumors have circulated that he attended Friday congregational 
prayer in the Mosque of Abu Hanifa an-Nu'man, and that he promised 
the worshippers there a surprise. There are also rumors that he had 
appeared elsewhere too, but there is no proof of the truth of any of 
these rumors.  

Intelligence sources confirm information that Saddam Hussein and his 
two sons are still alive, still in Iraq, and that the forces that are 
still loyal to Saddam Hussein number 40,000 fighters. They are deployed 
throughout various regions of the country. The President, who is still 
in hiding, still has power and specific means at his command, and he 
has kept secret hiding places where he can disappear in a number of 
provinces. In addition he controls secret hiding places that contain 
weapons and ammunition, military supplies, foodstuffs, and other 
necessities. The contents of these secret storehouses is sufficient 
for waging a long and bitter war.  

The great surprise that the message disclosed is that Saddam Hussein 
and his group of supporters who represent a secret leadership not 
composed of the familiar military and Baath Party personalities, are 
busily engaged in putting the finishing touches on a plan for a great 
confrontation with the Anglo-American forces deployed on Iraqi territory. 
The UAE newspaper "al-Bayan" reported on the authority of information 
that has reached "al- Watan al-'Arabi" that Saddam Hussein has designated 
17 July of this year as the date on which the great jihad will begin. 

In addition to the symbolic significance of this date, preparations 
should be completed by that time. In addition, Iraqi citizens will have 
come to understand the what the presence of foreign forces on their soil 
means. They will have come to understand the extent of changes that 
will take place in their way of life, contrary to their social, cultural, 
and religious heritage. Some of the considerations that justify putting 
off the date by about three months until July are likelihood that ethnic 
and sectarian fighting might erupt in the country by then, and the 
struggles of the different aspirants for power should have risen to the 
surface. This is likely to create an unbalanced situation in Iraq, keeping 
the occupation forces busy, and giving the forces loyal to Saddam Hussein 
an opportunity to score major breakthroughs in enemy security by 
waging Vietnam-style guerrilla warfare with "hit-and-run" tactics.  

The leaked information also discloses the make-up of the group that 
has gathered around Saddam Hussein and his two sons. It is composed 
of 'Abd Hammoud and 'Ali Hasan al-Majid who succeeded in escaping 
from Basra and disappearing, of Taha Yasin Ramadan, of the Defence 
Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad, and Latif Nasif Jasem. Izzat Ibrahim 
ad-Douri, who headed the northern sector, has disappeared, as has 
the commander of the Middle Euphrates sector Mazban Khidr Hadi. 
The group surrounding Saddam now comprises elements from Tikrit, 
Samarra, and Mosul.  

The intelligence report does not exclude the possibility that the 
new group around Saddam Hussein was the source of the leaked information 
that led to the arrest or surrender of certain former officials, because 
their roles had come to an end and there was no place for them in the 
new plan, and in order to keep the Americans occupied with 
interrogating them about events in the past, diverting the 
Americans' attention from planning for what is to happen in 
the near future.  

The information suggests that Saddam Hussein still has bases located 
in the cities, towns, and villages of Iraq, where the fighters look 
like ordinary citizens, but are waiting to carry out the orders that 
they will be given, and are meanwhile carrying out reconnaissance and 
observation of the enemy and bringing information and intelligence 
from the leadership to the base.  

The intelligence information also confirms that the locations where 
Saddam and his new aides are located are very well protected and 
surrounded in total secrecy which no spying or detection devices, 
however advanced, can penetrate. Also noteworthy is the presence of 
retired Russian experts in some of these locations, men practiced 
in guerrilla warfare with great expertise in this field.  

Strangely, the intelligence report discloses the precise details, known 
to the American intelligence agencies in Baghdad, of a meeting ostensibly 
held by Saddam Hussein with his aides on 7 April, the day that 
American forces entered the environs of Baghdad. The details of the 
meeting include the fact that Saddam Hussein confirmed at the opening 
of the meeting, which was held in a secret and protected location, that 
a great betrayal had taken place in the Republican Guard and Special 
Forces. He spoke of a high-ranking military personality with deep 
hatred, and said that this person had known all the secrets, the 
methods of issuing orders, and their secret codes. This person was the 
one who led the act of treachery and issued the orders for the forces 
to withdraw, as if they had come from Saddam Hussein personally. It was 
in this way that immediate and sudden withdrawals took place from all 
positions at one stroke, their weapons being taken away. The 
withdrawal covered the Republican Guard, the Special Forces, and all 
the regular and semi-regular forces, leaving no one to defend Baghdad 
except a few hundred Arab volunteers who were not included in those 
orders and who were not integrated into the leadership's chain of 
command.  

The intelligence report indicated that Saddam said that those persons 
think that they will occupy important positions under the American 
administration of Iraq. The message that they used said that Saddam 
Hussein had been killed with his commanders and that there was no 
longer any hope of resistance. The person who stands at the head of 
the betrayal knew the secret password and was thus able to issue the 
orders to retire from the battle.  

The sources reported Saddam as saying during the meeting that the 
date 9 April is the day of treachery and treason in Baghdad, (which 
confirms that the meeting took place after that date), the date of 
shame and humiliation for those traitors who sold out Arabism, and 
sold out Baghdad for some derisory sum. It was a great betrayal in 
which high-ranking officers of an Arab army were involved, an army 
that we had thought had regained its senses and returned to its Arab 
Nationalist position, that we had considered a loyal friend that had 
opened the door to jihad together with us. But it stabbed us in the back. 
Saddam added: "we have done our sums, and we still have great potential. 
We are accustomed to the most difficult conditions. We have experience 
in secret resistance from before the revolutions of 1963 and 1968, and we 
have the ability to wage battle and we are prepared for the confrontation 
and have the wherewithal to carry on for years."  

After that, according to the intelligence information, Saddam Hussein 
returned to the topic of the betrayal and treachery and spoke with 
bitterness of the husband of his youngest daughter Halla, Jamal 
Mustafa al-'Umar, who surrendered to American forces, a fact 
indicating his involvement in the treason.  

Saddam added, "We had prepared for a great battle against the 
Americans in Baghdad. Our planning was excellent. We had prepared a 
pincer attack. What sadness I have for those youth. What sadness I 
have for those traitorous scoundrels who forsook Iraq, and Arabism, 
and Islam. They did not forsake Saddam Hussein. And now we have 
become the survivors. We are the elite of the Iraqi people, and the 
historical responsibility for liberating our people has fallen on us. 
You will discover that the way is open before us, We will make America pay 
the price, God willing, albeit belatedly. We have grown used to struggle. 
We have lived it, and will continue to do so. The reports you have heard 
about chaos in the streets of Iraq today will mark the important 
beginning of the revolution." He continued saying: "Our date is in July. 
That is a historic date that has its own aims, significance, and 
associations that we will use in the fight. You need to be aware that 
the members of the Bedouin tribes and federations have not been 
treacherous. They have not turned traitor. When I determined what 
those contemptible officers had done, I wrote to the tribes to tell 
them to be calm and await the appointed day. And I asked some of them 
to go along with the American invader for the sake of our noble goal."  

Saddam Hussein said, "And to those who talk about the Shi'a, I say 
that the Shi'a will prove to everyone in our coming battle that they 
are the noble vanguard, and the battles of liberation will be waged 
in an-Najaf, and Karbala and the queen of cities Umm Qasr."  

Saddam Hussein, had called on the Iraqi people to rise up in intifada 
against the American occupation forces, saying that it is the foreign 
occupation and not Sunni or Shi'i that is the "only issue that your great 
Iraq is living through," as he put it. This call came in a hand-written 
letter from Saddam to the Iraqi people and the sons and daughters of 
the Arab Nation and the Islamic world community, and to honorable people 
everywhere. Dated 28 April, his birthday, the message was obtained by 
the London-based al-Quds al-'Arabi newspaper. Sources close to 
Saddam confirmed the authenticity of the handwriting and the signature, 
pointing out that the conditions of his underground existence do not 
currently permit anything more than sending hand-written letters, due 
to security considerations.  

The Leadership of the Resistance and Liberation of Iraq had stressed 
the day before yesterday in an exclusive letter sent to al-Quds 
al-'Arabi that Saddam Hussein had survived the bombing and that he 
would deliver an address to Iraqis and the Arab Nation within 72 hours. 
In the letter, Saddam accused the countries surrounding Iraq of working 
against the resistance and said that the traitors had allowed themselves 
to speak out loud about their treachery, despite its being a disgrace, 
in a reference taken to refer to Kuwait. Saddam said that treason lay 
behind the fall of Baghdad, saying "the enemy was not victorious over 
you, you who reject occupation and humiliation, you who have Arabism 
and Islam in your hearts and minds, it was not victorious over you  
except by means of treason."

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Source: Information Clearinghouse
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3276.htm


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