A purported audio tape from ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein broadcast today told Iraqis covert guerrilla attacks were the best way to end the US occupation of Iraq.
Qatar's al Jazeeraand Lebanon's LBC-al-Hayattelevision stations aired the undated and poor quality audio recording, in which the voice urged Iraqis to also combat the US and British presence through trade boycotts and civil disorder.
"Returning to covert attacks is the appropriate means for resistance," said the voice, which sounded like Saddam.
"Your main mission, Iraqis, is to evict the invaders from Iraqi territory," it said. "This is your fundamental mission, you Iraqis, Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, Shi'ites, Sunnis, Muslims and Christians...therefore you must work on unifying your ranks."
The tape was the second such recording in a week purportedly made by Saddam.
On Friday, al Jazeeraaired an audio tape it said was from Saddam in which he said he was alive and still living in Iraq almost three months after the US-led war on his country.
The voice on the latest tape mocked the United States for believing Iraqis would greet their armies as liberators. Twenty nine US soldiers have been killed in what appears to be a concerted guerrilla campaign since Baghdad fell on April 9th.
"The aggressive, invading enemy came laden with foiled hopes, believing Iraqis would receive them as liberators... but the people of Iraq did not and will not receive the invading armies as these losers had hoped for," it said.
