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Iraq: U.S. forces 'will face something not traditional'
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf warned that U.S. forces will face something unconventional Friday night, but pledged that Iraq would not use weapons of mass destruction against advancing coalition troops. "Tonight we will carry out something that is not traditional against them," Sahaf told reporters during his daily press briefing. "We will do something to them that will be a great example to those mercenaries. I'm not revealing a secret, because working in the dark is useful with these mercenaries." Sahaf later added that he didn't "think there is any chance" U.S.-led coalition forces "will survive." When asked directly by reporters if Iraq would use weapons of mass destruction, Sahaf replied, "No, not at all, but we will conduct a type of martyrdom operations." The Iraqi information minister told reporters that coalition troops at Baghdad's international airport were isolated, surrounded by Iraqi forces. Sahaf said coalition forces were completely immobilized and "nailed down" at the airport. Airport to become 'graveyard'He said that if the Americans and British did not surrender, the airport would become a "graveyard" for the "American villains." Sahaf said reports that U.S.-led coalition forces had secured the airport were not true, and compared those reports to the movie "Wag the Dog," in which Hollywood filmmakers faked battle scenes in a studio that were then shown as television news reports. "Most of you saw the American move, 'Wag the Dog.' ... [M]ost of what they did yesterday and today at dawn has some scenes that resemble that movie." Sahaf lashed out at the coalition forces talking about a postwar Iraq. He said that U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is talking about "how to share and divide Iraq as loot after the war." Sahaf said postwar Iraq would continue to stay under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, and the coalition forces would be gone. "We will chase them and go after them as war criminals," he said, adding that the "United States will no longer be a super power and its demise will be very quick" after the invasion of Iraq fails. Sahaf warned that the war would bring nothing "except humiliation and defeat" to the coalition forces. "Iraq will stay. Its civilization is 10,000 years old and it will not change by villains like those British and American villains," he said.
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