IRAQ: U.S. ADMINISTRATION SAYS ATTACKS ON U.S.-LED FORCES AND IRAQI ECONOMIC TARGETS WERE A MARK OF INCREASED DESPERATION ON PART OF DIE-HARD SADDAM HUSSEIN LOYALISTS

Record ID: 355130

  • Title: IRAQ: U.S. ADMINISTRATION SAYS ATTACKS ON U.S.-LED FORCES AND IRAQI ECONOMIC TARGETS WERE A MARK OF INCREASED DESPERATION ON PART OF DIE-HARD SADDAM HUSSEIN LOYALISTS
  • Date: 2nd July 2003
  • Summary: (EU) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 1, 2003) (REUTERS) MV /SLV UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATOR IN IRAQ PAUL BREMER ENTERING ROOM; MV REPORTER SEATED (3 SHOTS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) BREMER SAYING "Day by day conditions in Iraq continue to improve, freedom becomes more and more entrenched and the dark days of the Baathist regime are further and further back in memories. So those few remai
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVABR9RN6HGCFZ8HK20XOZUVBCAG
  • Story Text: The U.S. administrator in Iraq has said that attacks on U.S.-led forces and Iraqi economic targets were a mark of increased desperation on the part of die-hard Saddam Hussein loyalists who would be defeated.
    The U.S. administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer said on Tuesday (July 1, 2003) that attacks on U.S.-led forces and Iraqi economic targets were a mark of increasing desperation on the part of die-hard Saddam Hussein loyalists who would be defeated.
    Speaking after a further six U.S. soldiers were wounded in three attacks, Paul Bremer told a news conference in Baghdad that most Iraqis were enjoying the freedom from former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime that the U.S.
    invasion had brought.
    "Those few remaining individuals who have refused to fit into the new Iraq are becoming more and more desperate," he said.
    "First of all we are going to do our best to capture or kill these people before they can attack the infrastructure and to capture or kill them after they make those attacks,"
    Bremer added.
    Recruiting for a new Iraqi army would start within days, Bremer said, with the first troops being inducted around July
    He said an interim administration composed of Iraqis was also on track to be formed by the middle of the month.
    Bremer warned opponents of the United States that "when you make an enemy of the United States you'd better watch out sooner or later we'll get you."
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