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.
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafWe 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.
Mohammed Saeed al-SahafI 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.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf