‘Saddam’ tape urges soldiers to rise up

A NEW audiotape purported to be of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein broadcast by an Arab satellite station yesterday, called on former soldiers to rise up against American occupation.

‘Saddam’ tape urges soldiers to rise up

The speaker said the tape was made on July 20, two days before his sons Oday and Qusay were killed in a fierce attack on a villa belonging to a Saddam cousin in the northern city of Mosul.

The voice on the tape urged all of Saddam’s former soldiers to take up arms against the Americans and not to co-operate with the Iraqi army being rebuilt by US occupation forces.

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