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Special Document: Statement by the Iraqi Branch of the Arab Socialist
Baath Party.


In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving.

The Arab Socialist Baath Party.

"One Arab Nation, With an Everlasting Mission."

"Unity, Freedom, Socialism."


Statement on the imprisonment of our comrade the General Secretary by
the occupation forces in Iraq.

Sons and daughters of the Iraqi people and the Arab Nation!

Baathist Comrades!

In the course of the on-going confrontation between the heroic Iraqi
Resistance led by the Arab Socialist Baath Party and the occupation
forces and their stooges in Iraq, and at a time of intensified
operations by the occupation forces as they desperately attempt to
strike at and stop the escalating armed Resistance, American
occupation forces with the help of mercenary traitors managed to
carry out a combined operation that targeted a number of alternative
points  both real potential locations and decoy locations  in
various parts of Salah ad-Din Province while our comrade General
Secretary was on the move. The operation made use of biologically
effective interventions in order to take our comrade, the General
Secretary and Chief Secretary of the Iraqi Branch of the Party, the
militant Saddam Hussein, prisoner. That event took place before
midnight on Saturday, 13 December 2003.

The heroic armed Resistance, guided by its political and strategic
programs, will never stop. No, it will continue, escalating its
designated line in accordance with tactical demands and the strategic
aim of "expelling the occupation forces, liberating Iraq, and
preserving it as one unified homeland for all Iraqis." That which
has been laid out by the Command of the Political Resistance and that
which has been learned by fighting detachments will continue to be
implemented with lofty zeal, fighting spirit, clear vision, and firm
resolve, embodying the principled and militant characteristics and
virtues of our comrade the General Secretary.

The Baath, the Resistance, and all noble minded Arabs and human
beings are certain that his firmly rooted faith, his strong fighting
spirit, his authentic Arab honor, his iron Iraqi unyileldingness, and
his unique personal potency will inform the great battle of defiance
that our comrade the General Secretary will wage inside the enemy
prison camp, a battle that will add a new and eternal epic chapter to
the life of Saddam Hussein, a man dear to the hearts of Iraqis,
Arabs, and all progressives in the world.

Long live free Iraq! Defeat the occupation!

Long live the heroic Iraqi Resistance!

Long live the Comrade General Secretary and Chief Secretary of the
Iraqi Branch of the Party, the militant Saddam Hussein!

Long live Palestine, beloved of comrade Saddam Hussein, Free and Arab!

God is Greatest! God is Greatest! And may the despicable be
despised!

System of Political Information and Publication,
Arab Socialist Baath Party.
15 December 2003.