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Article: Iraqi parliament speaker: Americans to suffer casualties "beyond their imagination" if they invade Iraq
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- February 3, 2003
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Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq
Iraq will inflict massive casualties on American troops if the United
States launches an invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, a senior Iraqi
legislator predicted Monday.
Iraqi parliament speaker Saadoon Hammadi told a group of legislators
from the European Parliament that Iraq "will not turn the other cheek"
should the United States us force to make Saddam's regime give up
banned weapons programs.
"American aggression will end up in a catastrophe for them," Hammadi
said. "They will incur casualties beyond their imagination."
U.N. resolutions passed since Iraq's defeat by a U.S.-led coalition
in the 1991 Gulf War ...