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Tuesday, July 17, 2001, updated at 22:54(GMT+8)
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Iraq Committed to National Option: President

Iraq has been suffering from aggressions and blockade because of its commitment to national and human options and opposition to colonization and looting of the people's resources, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said on Tuesday.

"All what Iraq has been suffering from has been because it insists on its national and human choice of freedom and dignity," Saddam said in a televised speech to mark the 33rd anniversary of his Arab Baath Socialist Party's coming to power.

He stressed that Iraq would stick to its anti-colonization track, noting that "it's the way to real freedom and dignity."

Saddam spoke highly of his people's resistance to aggressions, pledging that "we are to continue work to rebuild our country to return to its condition before Um Al Ma'rik (Gulf War)" in 1991.

He also called for greater effort to "liberate Palestine" and urged his people to rise to defend the Arab nation against usurpers and their allies and dismiss them from the Arab territories.

Observers noted that Saddam did not attack the United States in his speech as it was always the case in his previous addresses. But he vehemently lashed out at Israel and called on the Arab states to unify to drive the Jews out of Palestine.







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Iraq has been suffering from aggressions and blockade because of its commitment to national and human options and opposition to colonization and looting of the people's resources, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said on Tuesday.

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