Baghdad: Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf insisted on April 5 that
coalition troops had been chased out of Saddam International Airport, which they had
seized the day before.
"The Republican Guard is in full control of Saddam International Airport," Sahhaf
insisted.
"We have defeated them, in fact we have crushed them. We have pushed them outside
the whole area of the airport."
"The whole trend has been changed. The operation is moving in our interests and I
think we are going to finalise soon."
He said suicide attacks had been launched on the American forces, part of
the "unconventional" methods he predicted on April 4.
"We will continue concentrating on those mercenaries until we slaughter them,"
Sahhaf promised.
"Yesterday we nailed them down and since dawn we are attacking them and they are
surrounded."
