- In the name of God, the Merciful, the
Compassionate
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- From: Saddam Hussein
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- To: Christopher J. Love CLove @escint.com
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- Dear brother in the family of mankind,
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- I read your e-mail message of October 2nd carefully and
I have well pondered over your emotions regarding the victims of the two
towers.
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- All I can say is presenting my condolences to you, and
to reiterate the Muslims linguistic formula on occasion, like this: (God
has created us, and to him we return. May God give you long life )
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- In a letter of reply like this, there may be no room
to say all I want, not to acquaint you with Saddam Hussein's and his
comrades
in the leadership way of thinking, or of how Iraqis think through them,
and of the kind of principles they believe in.
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- Nevertheless, as you have come to me to know about
things,
as I understood >from your message: the way my people, the Arabs and
Muslims, for whom the Arabs are a model, think. You wanted an answer to
these questions by addressing yourself to an official in the leadership
of this people, and this religion, as well as to someone from the region,
you call the Middle-East.
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- I may give you an explanation to what happened to the
two towers, and made America mourn, and inflicted pain and sorrow on
others,
because such an event has been inflicted on other people in the past,
including
Arabs and Muslims, in many cases.
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- I began this letter, by addressing you by the word
"brother",
although you are neither Iraqi or Arab, nor a Muslim, as can be seen by
your name.
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- Christopher, do you know why I called you brother?
Because
I never forget, that all mankind come from Adam and Eve. They are all
brothers,
although they later became different nations and adherent to different
religions. Hence, to our understanding,, we are one family within the
peoples
of our earth.
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- In this family, there is vice and virtue, good and bad
people. As long as a man safeguards his rights and duties, within himself,
and with humanity, avoids transgressing other peoples' rights, greed, and
harming others, and tries to be useful to others, only if they ask for
his help, he becomes their brother. But, when any member of this family
of mankind oppresses, exploits, unjustly wages wars on them, or lies and
deceives others, he would be acting like a devil in the form of man.
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- We, Arabs, have learned this, brother Christopher, before
any nation on earth. We have taught it to you, and to all the adherents
of divine religions in the Universe, because God the Almighty, had created
Adam and Eve on our land.There is no other chronicle or religion, that
pretends, or can prove the contrary. Abraham, the friend of God and the
father of all prophets, is one of us, as are all the other prophets.
Whenever,
God made a revelation, the Arabs were the people to undertake the mission
of spreading it to other non Arab nations, after believing in it
themselves.
Again, I say that this the fundamental basis of the humanitarian viewpoint
of, not only Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi people with him, but also of
all Arabs, in all their great homeland, which was divided by British and
French colonialism, and which the US is trying to halt its people's unity,
and forbid them from enjoying their rights which God bestowed on them on
their proper land.
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- Once again I say, that the basic general rule is that,
he who wants to avoid the harm of others, must not harm them. He who wants
to enjoy the fruits of his crops must not damage the corps of others. In
Iraq, and in the Arab rural regions, and that could be true in different
degrees, all over the world, people would fight each other, and some of
them maybe killed, but no one ever burns the corps of others. If a criminal
ever did so, he would be considered an outcast, and his blood would be
shed. Why is such an act so severely judged, although, in comparison, the
killing of a man is much more a serious act than the burning of
crops?
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- This customary law in the Iraqi countryside, and maybe
in the Arab and world also, is based on two reasons: First: a man, can
think, hide, and confront others, while crops cannot run, hide, or draw
a gun on who wants to harm them. Second: a man cannot live without crops,
and for this reason, burning his crops is equal to depriving him from his
right to live, and also, because more than one family may have a share
in these crops. The damage would be inflicted, not only on the share of
the person who is meant to be harmed. It would include the shares of the
entire family: women, children, old people, or even young men, who can
carry weapons. It is for this reason, that our religion prohibits the
killing
of woman, children and old men, as well as the uprooting of trees, when
a war is fought, by necessity, between two armies.
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- Do you know, brother Christopher, that your
administration,
in its war against the people of Iraq, has been burning not only the
cereals
in silos, but even the harvest by throwing flares in order to make Iraqi
people starve?
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- Do you know what does this mean? It means collective
death. Your successive administrations have killed one million and a half
Iraqis in eleven years as a result of the blockade it has imposed on Iraq,
according to statistics published international organizations, including
American humanitarian organization. You can ask them for details, by
Internet.
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- Food is important and holy to people, because it is
related
to man's right to live. In the same way medicine has the same sanctity.
This is something we have learned from our history and civilization which
are thousands of years old, Hence I remind you of the Crusades in 1096-1291
by which the western aggressors came to occupy the land of Arabs, under
the pretext of saving Al-Quads from the infidel Muslims as confirmed by
documents issued by the west itself. Notice the motto, dear Christopher:
"Saving Al-Quads >from the infidel Muslims"! So, the Muslims
are infidels, not in the eyes of the church, but in the eyes of the Western
leaders who mobilized the nations of the West to come as invaders to the
holy land of Al-Quads, which is the land on which landed Prophet Mohammed
"Peace be upon him" in his divine nocturnal journey.
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- An individual person in a nation, may be fanatic because
of a wrong reasoning, or awareness, but could leaders be so too?
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- You may say that this is something that happened a very
long time ago. But what made me mention it in my letter to you, is what
I saw, and heard of some leaders, not ordinary Western citizens. It seems
that as if those leaders have recalled all this inventory of fanaticism
and hatred of the times of the Crusades, in which the Western leaders
considered
the Arabs, who are the people of the country and the owners of the land,
as infidels who must be expelled from their land by force.
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- They have, now, planted the Zionist entity in our land
to replace that hatred. They have revived the memory of the old Crusades
wars by a new war of Crusades, called for by the highest ranking rulers
in your country, and in other countries of the west.
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- Isn't it a paradox, and double standards, to accuse a
citizen of fanaticism, to denounce his fanatic attitude and than to
mobilize
armies against him, and against the country in which he is living, on the
basis of nothing but suspicions, while waging an outrageous campaign of
hatred and fanaticism to the maximum, which even includes calling for,
and the recalling the old Crusades wars against Arab and Muslims, as we
mentioned ? !
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- Nevertheless it is well-known, that when the Arabs and
Muslims leader Salahdin Al-Ayoubi, was told that the leader of Crusades,
Richard, who was called the (Heart of Lion), was ill, he sent him a doctor,
and that when his horse was killed in a battle, he refused to fight anyone
before mounting another horse.
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- But do you know that your administration has, one way
or the other, deprived the people of Iraq from food and medicine?
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- Do you know the meaning of the death of one million and
a half human beings, in addition to those who are killed by bombs and
missiles?
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- Maybe, you and the majority of the peoples of America,
do not know that American bombardmen, and death harvest caused by fighter
jets, and missiles, are ongoing in Iraq for the last eleven years, and
have not stopped until the moment of writing this letter? Do you know why
you don't know?! Because the media in your country which is controlled
by Zionism, do not want you to known. And because your administration,
which says that it is necessary for the peoples of the world to know, does
not want you to know. You should ask your administration, why doesn't it
speak to you about facts ? Why doesn't present you any information except
its devilish fancies ?
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- As for me, I can tell you why Zionism doesn't want you
to know the harm inflicted on the people of Iraq. The Zionist and the
American
administration believe that it is necessary that Iraqis die. The Jewish
Albright, the former US Secretary of State, spoke in this way, or in a
similar case, when she said that the objectives of the US foreign policy,
justify the death of Iraqi children. The reason is that the Iraqis refused
the Zionist usurpation of Arab and Palestinian territories. They refuse
to accept the crimes of occupying Palestine, the Golan, and the Lebanese
territories, and refuse do accept the Zionists confiscation of the holy
places of the believers in God, including Muslims there.
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- Hence, whenever Zionism has the upper hand over high
ranking officials in America, it pushes the administration toward a
confrontation
with the Arabs, and reinforces Zionist entity, at the expense of Arab and
Palestinian rights.
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- By the way, please ask for the videotapes to see how
the Jews, in the occupied territories, kill old men, children and women,
in front of the cameras. Do you know that all these crimes have been
perpetrated
since 1935 by using Western weapons, and in fact, American weapons in
particular,
weapons that cost billions of dollars, the administration takes from
American
tax-payers to be granted as an aid to the Zionist entity ?
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- So, the Arabs and Muslims did not cross the Atlantic,
as invaders or aggressors. They did not colonize America. It is America
that brought them all kinds of sufferings. If any of your rulers says
something
different, please discuss it with them. For example, if they say that they
crossed the Atlantic to make sure that you get your oil supplies, tell
them that oil is guaranteed by mutual interests and non-aggression, not
by aggressions, killing, violating other people's rights, and destroying
all sanctities.
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- If your rules say that , they crossed the Atlantic in
the past to fight Communism so that it does not invade the West, tell them
that the ex-Soviet Union has fallen apart, as has the Warsaw Pact, although
I personally don't accept the contradiction between the call for the
freedom
of thinking, and saying that the Western way of thinking is more vital
and modern, as the intellectuals and leaders of the West say, and between
fearing Communism.
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- Do you know, brother Christopher, that the NATO, which
was created under the pretext of confronting Communism, still exists, and
was even enlarged after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact. Decisions of death
are taken in its name, against some peoples of the world sometimes, as
was the case against Yugoslavia, because it is an independent, andSlovak
country, and because the majority of its people are Orthodox, not because
their oppression of Muslims in Bosnia, as was claimed, to fool the Muslims,
and falsely win their support in international forums?
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- If we go on, we can give thousands of examples on the
blind fanaticism exported by the West to the world with American
participation
during the last 50 years. But I don't want to burden you. I only want to
tell you that the people of Iraq are against all kinds of fanaticism,
whether
based on religion, nationality or race. They are against the use of
fanaticism
as a cover for harming people whom God does not accept to harm. They call
for love between the peoples and nations of the world. Nevertheless, we
do not believe in love on one side only.
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- Iraq has been harmed severely by the fanaticism of
others,
including America. It was also severely harmed by terrorism. Maybe you
don't know that many the members of our leadership were victims of
terrorism
and terrorists. Some of them escaped death, by the will of God, after being
injured or missed by the terrorists, in addition to the pain inflicted
to our people.
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- Do you know brother, that your administration's reaction
to that, was one of encouraging it and rejoicing ? Do you know that your
administration has been encouraging terrorism against us for the past
eleven
years, calling to overthrow us by force, allocating special funds to do
so, and boasting about not fearing God, as it publicly announces that on
TV screens, because Iraq does not have the same destructive force and
armament
of America ? The Palestinians, whose right to resist the occupation forces
are guaranteed by the international law, promulgated by America and the
other big powers, are considered terrorists because they resist the Zionist
occupation of their territories, and holy places.
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- Tell me, brother, if the Vatican is occupied by Arabs,
or non-Arab Muslims, wouldn't its people fight the occupying forces?
Wouldn't
the English people fight for the Westminster cathedral? Or wouldn't the
French people, defend Notredame? I say they must fight for them ! Why,
then, are your armies occupying Mecca and the land of our Prophet? Why
are you occupying the regional waters in the Arab Gulf, in addition to
territories in its countries ? Why is your ally, the Zionist entity,
occupying
our holy places, and territories, in Palestine, by using your arms,
andfinancial,
political, media, and moral support? And, why are your administration
killing
people, including children in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in Palestine now,
just as it did, before that, in Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia and Libya, and
the list of Arabs and Muslims to be killed is long ?!
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- I know that Arabs are far from being fanatic. Do you
know why? Because, God, the Almighty, assigned them with the mission of
delivering the messages of all religions to humanity, and not to Arabs
alone. They have fulfilled their mission, so that all Christians are now
indebted to Arabs for guiding them to Faith, which God wanted them to have
when, He made it possible for them to reach you, or for you to reach them,
so that you know what they believe in, and be affected by it.
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- I know that Arabs, in general, do not adopt fanatic
stances
against any people for religious reasons. But, can anyone guarantee that
one fanaticism does not create another ? Can anyone guarantee that the
death toll and killing, inflicted upon Arabs and Muslims by the American
armies, would not lead to a counter-reaction, whether that reaction is
well guided, or is a random one, that pleases no one except those who carry
it out?
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- These words are general rules and principles, although
I still do not know who is behind what happened to the towers on September
11, 2001. Your government did not help me, or anyone else, by showing,
or communicating the information it possesses, so that we can elaborate
an opinion, if it needed to know the opinion of those whose people it daily
attacks with bombs, starves to death, and deprives from the right to live,
construct, and deploy their creativity.
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- Our law, which is borne of our religion and heritage,
and of our reasoning which is thousands of years deep, stipulates: "
the Plaintiff should present evidence and the defendant should take an
oath." But the plaintiff, which is your administration did not present
any evidence so far. Nevertheless, it accused the people it accused,
without
showing us, or anyone else, any evidence, except for Blair and the ruler
of Pakistan, as they both said. The people accused have not pleaded
guilty.
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- Anyhow, I don't think that your administration deserves
the condolences of Iraqis, except if it presents its condolences to the
Iraqi people for the one million and a half Iraqis it killed, and
apologizes
to them, for the crimes it committed against them. As for the American
people, we have sent them our condolences through Mr. Tareq Aziz's letter
to the Voices in the Wilderness Organization MrRamsi Clark, the former
Attorney General, on Sept. 18,2001.
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- Dear brother,
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- He who does not want his harvest to be burned must not
set fire to the harvest of others. He, who wants to live in security,
should
accept the right of others to live in security, and he who is irritated,
or raged by an aggression, should not aggress others. He who cherishes
the lives of his people, should remember that God created all people equal
at birth, in death, and in their human values, that's why he should
remember
that the lives of others are also cherished by their people. He who strikes
people with remote control missiles should expect, that there would be
someone to seek revenge, for his dignity and the dignity of his people,
and consequently does something harmful, or fatal, by stabbing a dagger
in his body, or taking his life by a sword.
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- He who sees himself as a man, who revenges his dignity,
should not deprive other men from their dignity, and he who calls for the
respect of his people, men and women, should respect the people of other
nations.
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- He who remembers God, must not ignore or forget, that
God the Almighty, is capable of everything, and of providing the weak with
what makes those who underestimate them, make heed of their rights and
respect them.
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- In any case, the security of humanity is, in our view,
a responsibility on the shoulders of all good people. Any irresponsible
action on the part of superpowers may give way to a counter irresponsible
action by the people, even if the smaller nations do not take such a course
of action.
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- Finally there is something in your letter that you asked
to be corrected, if it was wrong about the ex President Bush, is giving
us reason to believe that he was our ally in the issue of Kuwait, but he
was forced to abide with the United-Nations.The Fact, Mr. Christopher,
is that, it was President Bush who adopted the logic of war, right from
the first day of those events. He refused solving the problem politically,
and entering into a dialogue with us. The resolutions of the United Nations
were, in fact, adopted under pressure from Bush and his administration.
He then waged the war against Iraq, in a way that had nothing to do with
the issue of Kuwait. His objective was to destroy all Iraq, and to deprive
its people of the edifice they built, in several decades, and not merely
getting the Iraqi armed forces out of Kuwait. He did that in 1991, and
he later committed similar things, and he and his administration, are still
doing so under different pretexts and justifications.
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- Wishing that you will have the opportunity to see the
facts as they are, and not as your administration present them,
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- Yours truly
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- Saddam Hussein
- Baghdad, Shabban 2,1422 H.
- Oct. 18, 2001
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