Saddam Defies US Threats of Military Attacks

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Saddam Defies US Threats of Military Attacks

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Sunday vowed to defend his regime against possible military attacks from the United States. "If half of your air defense capabilities are destroyed, you will fight with the other half. If the other half is also destroyed, you will fight by using daggers," Saddam told his younger son.

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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Sunday vowed to defend his regime against possible military attacks from the United States, the state-run Iraq TV reported.

"We will fight against them (the enemy) with missiles, planes, stones ... and all what we have and we will defeat them," Saddam was quoted as saying.

Saddam made the remarks at a meeting with his younger son Qusay, who heads the elite Republican Guard and the military bureau of the ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party, and senior military officials including Minister of Military Industrialization Abdul Tawab Mulla Howeish and Defense Minister Sultan Hashem Ahmed.

"If half of your air defense capabilities are destroyed, you will fight with the other half. If the other half is also destroyed, you will fight by using daggers," Saddam said.

U.S. President George W. Bush, at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Saturday, reiterated that the U.S. policy was to topple the Saddam regime and said all options were on the table.

Bush has branded Iraq as part of an "axis of evil" and strongly warned that Iraq may become the next target of the U.S.-led war on terror after Afghanistan.

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