Iraq Says 'Graves' Waiting for 'Aggressors' in Baghdad

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Iraq Says 'Graves' Waiting for 'Aggressors' in Baghdad

Iraq on Thursday vowed to deal a heavy blow to coalition forces, saying its capital Baghdad would be "graves" for the "aggressors."

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Iraq on Thursday vowed to deal a heavy blow to coalition forces, saying its capital Baghdad would be "graves" for the "aggressors."

"They (the Americans) would try to come close to Baghdad outskirts where their graves lie," Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahaf said in an interview with the Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV network.

"The Americans had suffered an ignoble defeat in Nasiriya in southern Iraq and Najaf in central Iraq," he said, referring to stiff resistance from Iraqi combatants against the US and British troops, who have managed to move northward to break into the capital to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Describing as a "failure" the drop of 1,000 US paratroopers in northern Iraq, Sahaf said the US forces were in northern Iraq, but Iraqi troops will eventually evict them out of Iraq.

"We will beat them on their heads, till they completely leave our country", he said.

Defying international opposition, the United States and Britain launched a war against Iraq last Thursday under the pretext of toppling Saddam to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction.

Iraq has denounced the US and British invaders as "criminals" and "villains," while urging the international community to stop the "aggression" unconditionally.

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