Ba'ath Party Leader Describes Fight Against U.S. Forces
Ankit Gupta - All Headline News Staff Writer New York, NY (AHN) - Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party vowed to mobilize the "energy" of the Iraqi people and to expel American forces from the country adding it would not join the political process initiated by the "occupying forces." Former Vice President and senior party leader Izzat al-Douri, who is still at large after the fall of Saddam's regime, says they have no intention of joining the political process that is "manufactured by and serves the occupying force." The Ba'ath Party will continue "to mobilize and bring together the energies of the people for the fight to expel the occupation," al-Douri, the highest-ranking figure in Saddam's regime, tells TIME magazine. Al-Douri is the 'King of Clubs' in the U.S. deck of cards naming the Saddam regime's most wanted figures - is among several Ba'athist leaders believed to be hiding in Syria, under the protection of the president bashar as'sad, the magazine said. The magazine said its questions were sent to al-Douri in May through intermediaries and it's not exactly clear when his written answers delivered in Arabic and authenticated by trusted sources were composed. The fact that they refer in the present tense to the terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi suggest they were written before Zarqawi was killed in June. He praises Zarqawi's "courage, the strength of his faith, and the sacrifices of his fighters," but r |
