Iraqi forces are still in control of the city, and they are engaging in an attrition war with the enemy.
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafThey are achieving nothing, they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafThis boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basraโฆ 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.
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafOne hundred infidels committed suicide as they entered the holy city of Baghdad. Their tanks will become their tombs.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf