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

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

We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted.

You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay.

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

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.

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.