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

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

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

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.

There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!

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

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.