ABOUT BAGHDAD

  A strong, believing and healthy Iraq was born. But the birth, as all other births which came before it in the horizon of humanity and in our nation, was not able to render ineffectual the croak of ravens, nor the hissing of snakes or the crossing of far crocodiles from the seas of their family in order to help the beasts of earth in their attack against the sun, in a desperate hope to obscure its light which radiated from Baghdad or to shed the blood of its people in a fake hope and out of an imagination that the generous blood shed on the soil of Baghdad and on the soil of Iraq could hinder the plants and trees from becoming green, from blossoming and from carrying with its fragrance pollens which might tempt the appetite of butterflies, and thus be able to carry with the news of new faith and resolution, with the dew and tears, a pollen to every tree whose branches and leaves become dry or ceased to give fruits now that the water ceased to reach its roots and was confident that no one could take care of its fruits and guard its plants, trees and growth.

  A visitor could tell that he was in Baghdad even though his eyes were shut, in an attempt that a traveler could hardly recognize his feet on the map… Was there a place much better than Baghdad, where religions and racial tolerance together with constructive views being born, on the side and direction of every constructive thing of other views….

  After the Revolution, Baghdad and life have become as they now despite the conspiracies of the forces of evil which cameone after one with extraordinary actions to suppress the new will that proceeded with building, renewing the role after its rise again, developing the wealth after its creation, enhancing the trust by truthfulness and capability after being built on a solid foundation that does not spoil the consciences and ardor by inactivity and evil example.

  Against this background of the past, we see that some well-known quarters in Iran still hesitate to visit Baghdad and Kerbela', now that such a visit has been made possible to those who want to make it peacefully, as the people of Baghdad and Kerbela' have accepted that with their own free will.

  All that has been inflicted on the Arabs and Muslims by America and the West, didn't push Muslims to become racists and harass the Westerners who walk in the streets of Baghdad, Damascus, Tunis, Cairo and other Arab capitals, even when the Westerners, and especially Americans insulted the holy sites of Muslim and Arabs by what is almost an occupation of Saudi Arabia in order to launch their evil fires against Baghdad, and when the American carriers roam the Arab Gulf, and their fighters daily roam the sky to throw tons of bombs and missiles over Iraq, so that about two hundred thousand tons of bombs have been used against Iraq , in addition to using depleted uranium!.

  All this took place when the ruler's traits either did not exist or interact with the people, and indeed when history discontinued or was inoperative in the best terms of description, as if its final episode prior to the fall of the Ottoman rule were identical, again in the best terms of description, to the one that had by a single day anteceded the Ottoman domination of Baghdad and by corollary all the Islamic states in general.

  Although some eyes and minds in our nation and humanity are still incapable of seeing or perceiving the pros and cons in the nation and humanity, the people and rulers of Baghdad have resolved to compel the Mongols of this age to commit suicide on its walls and make the confrontation, in terms of meaning and sacrifice, to rise to a level which could lead other eyes and minds to be wide open of what is going around it and get elevated to its role, and make the force which it possesses after or before anyone may take this risk and is deceived by its Satan to trespass the walls of Baghdad, to be effective in the human milieu, capable of converting it into an ascent force in the milieu of constructive competition and not a brute force based on brutal devastating instinct.

  And as the Mongols and Tatars had burned books of science and knowledge, murdered the scientists in Baghdad and wasted the Nation's opportunity for a long time, some of the backward too pushed by their destructive force and backsided by their evil intents have thought that they are capable of killing men of knowledge and tokens of pen, wisdom, sword and banner in Baghdad, which is rising higher and for the better.

  And because the people of Baghdad, I mean the rulers in it, were not quite prepared when the Mongols and Tatars invaded the territory of China, India, Persia and the surroundings, their invasion of Baghdad was in agreement of what history had described, and which later include Syria and the parts connected to it.

  As the birth of Baghdad was now healthy and proper, blessed by heaven by order of its God, and that its guard were putting their hands on their rifles during the dawn prayer on the day of birth, with great confidence in their breasts, on the night of 16/17 January 1991 and afterwards, Baghdad, in the name of Iraq, kept defending itself along with every faithful valiant and noble woman in defense of the command which God has so decided to their new birth.

  As the crown rolled, the chair of the king began to shake with every passing day, taking stances of arrogance and evil against Baghdad. :: 980117

  Babylon, Baghdad, Assur, Nineveh, Hatra and Ur were not neutral, in a middle distance between the foot of the mountain and the summit.

  Baghdad has never been traitorous.

  Baghdad in its known history , had played the role of the Arabs' and Muslims' pure eye.

  Baghdad of the Arabs and Islam, which is full of zeal for the principles, lofty ideals and love for its nation's sons, does not accept for itself to be a cause, cover or an obstacle that impede the holding of a serious meeting of the Arabs on the level of summit to take decisions that put the nation in a better situation towards itself, its lovers and enemies. :: 980717

  Baghdad Summit 1978. Despite the horrible shock inflicted upon the Arab masses, an Arab summit was held in Baghdad in 1978, which Egypt did not attend and some first officials of the Arab states did not attend too. :: 980717

  Baghdad Summit 1990. In 1990, the Arabs gathered in an Arab summit held in Baghdad. Syria did not attend that summit although its officials were invited. Some Arab states did not attend on the level of the first officials. Nevertheless, its decision had a thunderous impact on the Zionist entity and on the makers or followers of its aggressive policies. :: 980717

  Baghdad was not in a position to defend itself properly, and therefore the eyes of Hulago's army were not gouged out on its walls nor was it extinguished in its face the venture of trespassing it, or even to deny it the chance of going ahead to others from the nation to attack them as it attacked Baghdad, till Hulago's eyes were gouged out at the hands of the Mameluke dynasty in Egypt at the famous battle of ( Ain Jalut ),after they were able to get prepared for it and learnt lessons from the war before them and after Hulago's intent and methods were revealed… History tells us that western peoples and circles had played, for their own reasons, a role in directing Hulago to the east, indeed to the Arab world in particular.

  Baghdad, with all that it bears of the glorious history of the Nation and a great cultural role, was almost a large abandoned village, in terms of formation and services, rather than a city of these historical meanings, living in the 20th century.

  By the will of God, glory be to Him, Baghdad shall remain, just as it has always been, inaccessible to the enemies and guarded by pride and by heedful might, true to humane principles.

  Everyone in whose body the Hulago' intent and action has settled down will commit suicide at the walls of Baghdad and Iraq towns, as was the case with those who died at the walls of Jenin and Palestinian towns.

  From the above and from the qualitative level of the sublime morals warehoused in Baghdad and the capability of being insightful on certain, familiar conditions, we can expound how the sun had not shone on the people of Baghdad and others during the reign of the State run by the Ottomans in the name of Islam when Baghdad faded and how now light shines on the foreheads of many sons of the Islamic community and all Arab sons, people of the sword, pen, banner and great principles when the rays of light are beamed from Baghdad, the city of great history and glory.

  Here in Baghdad and in the battlefield, across Iraq, the fervor of faith and steadfastness intensified fearless of the confrontation of the despot. :: 980117

  Hulago's army has now come at this age to confront Baghdad after it has born anew with the sunrise, to record, with its new youth, a level of ascent which suits it well after it has abandoned its leading role for about seven hundred years.

  In all this Baghdad expresses the genius of the Nation and People under the protection of the message of the faithful nationalism and immortal humanity.

  Is it clear for those who are responsible for that summit held in Cairo without the meanings that Baghdad represents now in the Arab's position and history? And when discussing Arab issues, did the conference give serious consideration to the Arabs' aspirations and attitudes?. :: 980717

  It does not matter, if your dispensing with Baghdad's capabilities and their effectiveness is not an avoidance or ignorance of them but a mere gesture of warriors so that Baghdad may take some rest after its long march of Jihad when there is that who can fill its post on the honorable front of Jihad, although this, even according to this condition and its motivations, does not satisfy Baghdad, its people, lovers and the great people of Iraq who never remain indifferent or accept the warrior's rest on the margins of the battlefields when fighting is fierce or there is a need for deliberation and consultation. :: 980717

  It is the same account behind the Iranian rulers who, when the great principles of True Islam were absent or absented, sought to destroy Baghdad in 1980 and to occupy Iraq, just as Krosch had destroyed Babylon in collaboration with the Jews in 539 B. C.

  It was a posture, on one of its two sides there were those who attacked Baghdad with their missiles.

  It was the day when 28 armies led by the American tyranny acting on behalf of more than 30 states that had allied themselves for aggression, unleashed the shells of malice, hatred, evil and whim at Baghdad, the city of virtue, great history, glory, and of distinctive mark in attitude, and characteristics in the entire Arab Nation of glory and virtue. :: 980117

  Its faith, which God has given it and which the situation and banner was perfumed by generous blood from its sons, has been deepened by a scarifies which God has accepted in compensation for the negligence which took over those who ruled Baghdad, and therefore the foreigners with the horny feet of their horses, found their way towards it.

  No wonder then some have dogfought against Baghdad with hatred and envy and have employed forces, some of which are backward for destruction while others have used their accumulation of malice and narrow, greedy interests to portray to the backward of their kind that their destructive approach is right.

  O Iraqis, you have indeed brought the sun back to Baghdad, and have shined in it at the time the city has been illuminated by you.

  On the basis of their well-known cover or covers of illusion and aversion, they formulated part of them in the shape of slogans for Iranian warriors, when they misled them into believing that (a pilgrimage to Kerbela' can only be made through the occupation of Baghdad and then Kerbela'), and not through establishing proper relations with Baghdad to reach Kerbela'.

  On the other side, there were those who were inspired with the glorious ancient past, and heightened the status of the Baghdad of history, virtue and lofty meanings.

  Plants covered the land of Iraq reminding of its past when the land of Iraq was described as the land of the black for the multitude of its plants which disappeared from Baghdad, its countryside and towns, until it appeared as if they did not exist before as one sign of its health.

  Since the bombs and rockets of evil hit Baghdad and Iraq in its entirety, that day became a dawn of additional glory in the history of Baghdad, the capital of AL-Rasheed, AL-Mansour and the great Ba'th and throughout Iraq of jihad too from north to south. :: 980117

  So, by God, the evils will not refrain from targeting Baghdad until it betrays itself and its Nation.

  That was with other supporting roles in other centres in conformity of what had happened in Baghdad or before that time.

  The Americans will retreat and depart, day after day, from the peak which they think they have reached when they dared to attack the glorious city of Baghdad with their bombs and missiles but the city, nevertheless, has proved to be impregnable to foreign aggression. :: 980117

  The Arab masses positively responded to those decisions to the highest and largest degree because they put their confidence in that summit and built their hopes on it as soon as it had been decided to hold the summit. Before announcing what had been announced of its decisions, those decisions, attitude and the nature of the roles and its known positions had a reflective reaction in the plans of the plotters of the black conspiracy preceded August 1990 against Baghdad, its men, attitude, policy, capability. Hence, the unjust thirty-nation aggression took place. :: 980717

  The destroying force found its complex in Baghdad; the abode of civilization and peace, and made it its target for destruction which was rendered feeble because of the weakness of those who did not hold firm to the factors of ascent, its causes and results, and also of the weakness of its rulers and the betrayal of the traitors… Hulago and his troops occupied Baghdad for forty days and destroyed every live thing in it.

  The Jews and their supporters played a remarkably malicious role against Baghdad in the past and this conspiratorial, aggressive and wicked role is today reverting to them, to the Zionist Jews and to the Zionists who are not of Jewish origin, particularly those who are in the US administration and around who stood in opposite front of our nation and Iraq .

  The Mongols succeeded and the sun set down from Baghdad at that time.

  The new birth brought back once again the spirit of Baghdad, and with the birth a stand, a sword, a pen and a banner were born.

  The rulers of Baghdad in the past grew old.

  Thence Baghdad has emitted radiance that conveys the morals and illuminates the way with beams reaching all parts of the world under the care and protection of the Most Compassionate.

  They renounced the role so commanded for them by God and deterred those who were responsible for their subjects from introducing innovations in their life affairs and defence of it when Hulago came to the walls of Baghdad in the year 1258.

  Thus Hulago came with the sunset and the rule passed to him with Baghdad as its capital.

  We can expound the reason when Baghdad's eyes are closed, all Arabs' eyes are closed too, and why when it wakes up once more, the sword would be associated with the pen, both being based on wisdom, yet each forming a flank founded on the great morals of civilization and the eternal heritage of our Nation where giant falcons fly to protect the sky and land of Iraq so that Baghdad should proceed with its course to the summit armed with the principles of construction and advancement, and holding the sword to defend the sublime morals.

  We can say how in every period following destruction and stagnation Baghdad, and indeed the whole Arab and Islamic nation in general with few familiar, relative exceptions, seemed as though it had been as frozen as it were in the previous period in all walks of life and in all domains including socials relations then.

  While the American official was poised there to announce he had become the unrivaled and unopposed King of the World and that all must kneel obediently to him without having the right to reject his crowning or to oppose any stance by Washington, and while false witnesses and slaves were about to place on him the absolute crown on which the names of most world states were inscribed save two or three who tacitly grumbled with discontent, albeit with a faint voice and shaken rejection, and, when the tyrant viewed with contempt everything, a breeze carrying the scent of prophets who were born in dignified Iraq and who bore the meanings of message and the great revelation blew on dignified Iraq to reinforce faith in the chests of the men and women of Baghdad. :: 980117

  Why was Baghdad destroyed in 1258 A.D? Why was Babylon destroyed in 539 B.C? Yet man's spirit in both could not be totally destroyed, nor was the hope for revival anew given up… Why had Baghdad's slumber lasted for eight centuries? Why has Baghdad woken once more, yet has not stooped, twisted, ceased or bargained?.

  Wishing that you will have the opportunity to see the fact as they are , and not as your administration present them, Yours truly, Saddam Hussein, Baghdad, Shabban 2,1422 H., Oct.18, 2001.

  Yet, Baghdad today, brothers, has its eyes pure, its mind and conscious clear of any rust or cover, and are proud of the nation and for it, in the name of God, after they have put their trust in the Owner of Potency and gets prepared to the role.