BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saddam Christmas message: Excerpts (#)

  „It is in this context that the American-Zionist campaign against Iraq is being launched, while the tone of a threatened, large-scale military aggression against our peace-loving people is growing louder, in addition to the aggression already inflicted and the unjust blockade still in place. Inspections 'shock' The aggressors use flimsy pretexts and fabrications, totally alien to the truth, despite the fact that Iraq has co-operated, and continues to co-operate, with the United Nations and the Security Council, and has expressed its firm desire to find common grounds of understanding and action, including our dealing with the bad Security Council Resolution 1441.“

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