Reply #59: Actually he wasn't ecstatic, you just fell for propoganda

[pschoeb]

The quote "operation of the century" was not made by Saddam, it was supposedly made at a Baghdad TV station by Sa'd Yasin Yusuf, as reported by translation from Israel intelligence analysts, who also simultaneously made the link to Iraq probably being involved, this was on Sept 12 2001. I actually question the complete accuracy of this possible Baghdad TV quote, I'm sure it's meaning and interpretation were skewed, for example "terrorist operation of the century" is perfectly sensible, the rest of the quote from that TV station is hard to get and we get much selective quoting with many ellipses, but largely seems that this Iraq commentator was making a blowback analysis as the cause of the attacks.

Some other quotes were given out on the 12th about Saddam, for example this quote is supposedly from IRNA but I would question the complete accuracy of the translation and of course the ellipses which probably removes Saddam's sentiments of revulsion at the attacks, I'm not sure the source of this translation. Again his analysis seems to be sober blowback, not ecstatic.

"Regardless of...human feelings on what happened yesterday, America is reaping thorns sown by its rulers in the world,"