CNN just reported this on their website:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/...eut/index.html
BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) -- President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday has warned the United States of huge losses and a calamity worse than the September 11 attacks if it goes ahead with plans to invade Iraq.
"It is better for them (the Americans) to keep themselves away from us," Uday was quoted as saying on Thursday night by al-Shabab (Youth) television which he owns.
"Because if they come, September 11 which they are crying over and see as a big thing will be a real picnic for them, God willing," Uday said, referring to suicide hijacker attacks in New York and Washington which killed about 3,000 people in 2001.
"They will be hurt and pay a price they will never imagine," he added, repeating similar comments in an editorial in Thursday's Babel daily, which Uday also owns.
Uday said the Americans could get more gains from Iraq without war, saying that Washington would fail in ousting President Saddam Hussein.
"They can get much more from Iraq by dialogue without resorting to the logic of force and war," he said.
The United States believes Saddam is hiding weapons of mass destruction from U.N. arms inspectors and has threatened to disarm him by force if necessary. Iraq denies having such weapons.
President George W. Bush's administration, which is building up a major military force in the Gulf area, has said the release of a U.N. Iraqi weapons inspections report on January 27 will be an "important date" in deciding how to react against Baghdad.
"They (inspectors) will discover that we do not have these things, we are not lying, we are telling the truth, we have no proscribed weapons," Uday said.
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If you don't want to read it all, it basically says Saddam's eldest son said if the American invasion occurs, it will come at a high price for all Americans and make 9/11 look like 'a picnic'.
This leaves me thinking 2 things:
1. First of all why is this guy saying Americans will pay a price higher than the lives lost at 9-11? This really worries me.
2. *How* is America going to 'pay'? Does this mean they do have these weapons? Or??
3. Or is this an example of how they are being misinterpreted by the translators?