During the battles last night and at dawn, they [ Ba'th Socialist Party fighters] had destroyed three American helicopters

Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it.

What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.

I 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.

I blame al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!

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

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.