Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Military Quotations

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river.

Our initial assessment is that they will all die.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

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

We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force was crushed

Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.

Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?

The Iraqi troops and the Iraqi fighters are in control of all the places, as we have witnessed, no big change in that. We are fighting against them.

Hit them. Fight them. They are cursed; they are evil

Whoever dies will be rewarded by heaven.

Let's go and do jihad

We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

...over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places.

They are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing

Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat.

They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion

Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport

The criminals will be humiliated... To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks.

We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot.

Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass

They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.

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

I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps

What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.

How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches

Everyone could face something that hurts him. But I don't expect that I will be hurt

A difficult situation, not for one individual, but for everybody

It was unworthy of our military sources that they were the first to weaken.

It did suffer and it became very weak, while the reporters from Iraqi radio and television stations were more active and had more accurate information.

The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart

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

The information was correct, but the interpretation was not

During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters

.....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.

No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets.

We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.

Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it

They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be

They are again in the dirt in the desert

They try to engage the world as much as they can and we will continue until they leave our land.

Americans are now in disarray

Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.

It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation

Up till now, they are only on dock No. 10, not in Umm Qasr, not in the city

The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed.

They think we are retarded. They are retarded.

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.

Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.

Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.

They are most welcome. We will butcher them.

Let the American infidels bask in their illusion.

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!

Authentic sources - many authentic sources.

I blame Al-Jazeera. They are marketing for the Americans.

The Americans, they always depend on a method what I call ... stupid, silly. All I ask is check yourself. Do not in fact repeat their lies.

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

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget

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

They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport.

The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes.

One hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.

There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.

Don't repeat the lies of the liars.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

Their casualties and bodies are many. Their equipment and vehicles, several were destroyed

The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfeld deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.

The insane little dwarf, Bush.

We will slaughter them; Bush Junior, and his international gang of bastards!

These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.

With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.

These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.

We will get them stuck in the mud and we will certainly defeat them.

God willing, we will throw them into the sea.

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.

We counted 19 missiles that landed in a small area of Baghdad.

I think that the Iraqi ground defenses shot down dozens of missiles. We are in the process of counting all these missiles quickly

I speak better English than this villain, Bush.

One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.

Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.