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.

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

We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.

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

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

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… 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.

The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.