Top 125 Quotes & Sayings by Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Iraqi public servant Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He came to worldwide prominence around the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Media and Foreign Affairs Minister under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting as spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Saddam's government. He has also been nicknamed Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali for his colorful television appearances as the Information Minister of Iraq.

The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.
It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.
Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them. — © Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.
Our initial assessment is that they will all die.
They're not even within 100 miles of Baghdad. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion... they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.
The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.
Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.
The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.
We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.
We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.
There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad.
They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone. — © Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
They are superpower of villains. They are superpower of Al Capone.
They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind.
I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that they have started to commit suicide under the walls of Baghdad. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly.
We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards.
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves.
God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.
There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!
We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.
Search for the truth. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport.
Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.
Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.
We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.
We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
They think we are retarded. They are retarded.
These are not ordinary human beings. They are criminals. As a matter of fact, they are criminals, both by nature and by training. By nature, because they are not decent. They are criminals.
Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly.
Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass.
Don't repeat the lies of the liars.
We want to tell him [Blair] that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.
They've not been able to control any Iraqi city. We're waging war against this snake and we will be victorious.
The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it
The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!
This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra… Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.
Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?
We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison. — © Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
We will in fact encourage them to commit more suicides. We have given them death and poison.
We will be victorious, and they will be defeated.
There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.
Bush is a very stupid man. The American people are not stupid, they are very clever. I can't understand how such clever people came to elect such a stupid president.
The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed.
I am not talking about the American people and the British people, I am talking about those mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps to kill the children.
Today we slaughtered them in the airport. They are out of Saddam International Airport
Lying is forbidden in Iraq. President Saddam Hussein will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honour and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts.
The criminals will be humiliated... To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks.
They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.
What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places. — © Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
What they say about a breakthrough is completely an illusion. They are sending their warplanes to fly very low in order to have vibrations on these sacred places.
They are becoming hysterical. This is the result of frustration.
One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
Just look carefully, I only want you to look carefully. Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place. Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role.
Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly.
We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot.
The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.
I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.
These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.
The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.
I speak better English than this villain, Bush.
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