Dubai, May 10: Saddam Hussein has urged Iraqis to transform mosques into centres of resistance, a newspaper reported today quoting a message purported to have been written by the ousted president. Al-Qods al-Arabi daily said it believed Saddam had written and signed a six-page letter dated May 7 which it had received by fax.
"I call on you, children of Iraq, to turn the mosques into centres of resistance and to ensure the triumph of religion, Islam and the homeland, and to make the enemy understand, through facts, that you hate him," it said.
"Save the homeland," the message said. "Enroll in the resistance. Do not give up your petrol and your wealth. Fight against the occupier and his agents, boycott them. It is a religious and patriotic duty."
The letter bitterly attacked all Iraq's neighbours.
It accused "the Syrian regime of welcoming the opposition, traitors, who it allowed to contact the CIA and Britain while refusing to allow militants to stay a few days" in Syria.
"The Saudi regime allowed the invaders to sully the soil of the prophet" Mohammed," while Kuwait was branded "a liar and a traitor."
Iran was charged with "hypocrisy and plotting against Arabs and Islam."
Jordan was accused of "making propaganda for the Zionist regime" and Turkey of "allowing American and British planes to kill Iraqis" by hosting the aircraft which patrolled a "no-fly" zone over northern Iraq. Bureau Report