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.

It's a small town, it has only a few docks ... now they are in a trap.

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

They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.

When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.

Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.

They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.