Baghdad: Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz vowed on April 3 that advancing US-
led forces would not be able to take over Baghdad and promised a "huge and costly"
war.
"Baghdad is well-defended, and it will be a huge, costly war with us, if they
approach Baghdad," Aziz said in an interview in the Iraqi capital with the Italian
television RAI UNO.
"They cannot take over Baghdad, it is not an easy city. It is a very large
city ...very well-armed and very well-defended, very well-prepared for such an
eventuality," he said.
