Quotes from Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

.....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party.

God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.

These mercenaries, I swear by God, those who are still in Washington, they have sent their troops to be burned.

God willing, we will throw them into the sea.

As our leader Saddam Hussein said, 'God is grilling their stomachs in hell.'

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.

There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.

We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.

They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place

We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.