Attack on Iraq won’t be ‘a picnic’ warns Saddam

IRAQI President Saddam Hussein, in one of the few interviews he has given since the Gulf War, warned the United States and Britain that attacking Iraq would not be “a picnic” for their invading soldiers.

In the interview published yesterday, in the Egyptian weekly Al-Osboa, Saddam also appealed to his fellow Arabs to defend Iraq, saying that after the United States seized his nation, it also would seek to control Egypt, Syria and non-Arab Iran.

"Iraq is not like Afghanistan. This does not mean that we are stronger than the US, which has fleets and long-range missiles, but we possess faith in God, the country and the Iraqi people and, just as significant, the Arab nation," the Iraqi leader said.