A letter purported to be from ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and faxed to an Arabic newspaper warns of attacks on the nations that have troops currently occupying Iraq, Reuters reports.
“We warn all foreign citizens and all those who came with cowardly occupier … of the need to leave Iraq before the 17th of next June,” said the three-page letter, sent to the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi, according to the news service.
An editor at the paper said the letter’s author likely meant to write July 17, the anniversary of Saddam’s Baath party coming to power in Iraq.
“If this period ends without them leaving, it will be our right for us to take our defense to their countries. As they kill the sons of Iraq, we will respond,” said the letter.
According to Reuters, the letter mentioned Poland and Denmark, two countries that have supplied troops to the coalition effort since the fall of Saddam on April 9.
The al-Quds al-Arabi editor told the news service the handwriting and signature were the same as four other letters attributed to the ousted Iraqi leader and faxed to the paper in the weeks after the war.
As WorldNetDaily reported, the Arabic newspaper has published letters purported to be from Saddam in the past, including one he was to have faxed on his birthday, April 28.
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