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Iraq's Saddam: 'America reaps thorns sown by its rulers'
Wed Sep 12 2001 16:00:04 ET
Baghdad - Iraq's President Saddam Hussein said Wednesday that the terror attacks in the United
States were ``the result of the thorns sown by its leaders in the world''.
``Notwithstanding the conflicting human feelings about what happened in America yesterday,
America is reaping the thorns sown by its rulers in the world,'' Saddam said in statements
distributed by the official Iraqi News Agency.
``Those thorns have not only bloodied the feet and the hearts of many, but also the eyes of
people shedding tears on their dead whose souls have been reaped by America,'' he went on.
``There is no place that does not have a symbolic monument that shows America's criminal acts
against these victims, whether in Japan that was the first to be seared by the nuclear
destruction weapons boasted by America, or Vietnam, Iraq, the nuclear Russian submarine or the
criminal acts the US is now perpetrating by supporting the criminal racist Zionism against our
heroic Palestinian people -women, men, young men, old men and children''.
In the statements, which the agency said Saddam made while receiving Deputy Prime Minister and
Military Production Minister Abdul Tawab al-Malla Haweish, the Iraqi leader said the question
now was whether the United States ``would deliver itself and the world from the evils and
terrorist crimes of its rulers against the world, or whether those rulers who have become a
dummy in the hands of international Zionism ... will divert the feelings of the Americans into
new terrorist designs against the world that satiate the Jewish Zionist greed for evil money
and innocent blood?''
He said that ``the American peoples should remember that no one throughout history had crossed
the Atlantic carrying arms against them, but it was they who crossed over carrying with them
death, destruction and terrible exploitation to the whole world.''
He added: ``those who do not want to reap evil should not sow evil, and those who consider the
lives of their people dear and precious must also remember that the souls of people elsewhere
in the world are dear and precious to their kin.''
Saddam said America was ``exporting evil not only wherever its armies but also where its motion
pictures go. If the American people remember all this, they will salvage their security and the
security of the world from their rulers. On the other hand, if what happened in the US was an
internal matter (the work of American nationals) then the house dwellers know best where their
malady resides''.