An unprecedented interview with the Commander of the Iraqi National Resistance Mr. Izzat al Duri!

In an unprecedented interview with the Commander of the Iraqi National Resistance Mr. Izzat al Duri! *

No! I wasn't surprised by the rumor of my death, for it aims to divert attention from the US impasse in Iraq!

I am thinking seriously to air a recorded document through TV channels to refute the enemies' claims!

Baghdad from Seif Al Juneid

The magazine al Majd is utterly happy to be the only and unique information tribune chosen by the Comrade Mujahid Izzat al Duri, the Commander of the Heroic and Victorious Iraqi Resistance, to make the first press declaration after the tendentious rumors which aimed first and above all at sowing confusion into the ranks of the Resistance and weakening its morale.

But cursed always be the enemies and the stooges, and to hell what they have been hatching and weaving. Here is the Leader (Abu Ahmad) appearing from Al Majd tribune, as strong as ever, healthy, capable and resolute to snatch victory, to defeat the occupier, and to liberate the total soil of the Land of the Two Rivers.

And because this victorious Leader who in charge of the Baath Party as a Deputy Secretary General after the detainment of the President Saddam Hussein, is far much greater than to be introduced or to be presented for his qualities are well known to everyone. Here is the text the al Majd Iraqi correspondent, made with Comrade Abu Ahmad, in amongst the sounds of bombs and shelling, bullets raining, from the battlefield and the raging combat.

* Why there was some confusion about your death rumors, your Excellency is still alive by the grace of the Lord; we would like some explanation about these rumors?.

- We are not at all surprised by such rumors which show the massive impasse the US got trapped into the day it decided to aggress Iraq and to occupy it. That is why the US administration is trying to divert the public opinion to other matters and to distract the world away from the fundamental problem which is in fact the failure of the US project in Iraq and its defeat at the hands of the soldiers of the truth, the heroes of the Iraqi National Resistance, and whatever is undertaken by the enemy propaganda machine aims to mix cards and to give a hazy picture of what is going on in Iraq.


*Why your Excellency doesn't record an audiocassette to be published through TV channels like Al Jazeera, etc. to prove to the world that your Excellency is still running the affairs?

-I agree! This is very important! But you know in the past this hasn't been possible for obvious reasons and we are studying this issue, which will get our full attention in the very next future, God willing!


*What is your opinion, your Excellency, about the Cairo Conference for National Accord, precisely what are your special conditions and those of your companions to negotiate with the Occupation?

- The Party and the Resistance opinion were clear about the so-called Cairo meeting, on this particular question the Party has issued more than a statement. Our position didn't change and our friends and our enemies know that well.


* The citizens and Congress anger and the wrath are growing by the day in the country of the number one occupier, where demands are made to quickly withdraw from Iraq, does your Excellency expect the occupation withdrawal with the beginning of next year?

- We praise the Lord who gave victory to his faithful servants and returned the wickedness against the wicked, themselves. Bush lies and his aggressors and cruel allies' have been exposed. All the people of the world, not only the US, are fed up with the empty arrogance and impertinence of those in the US who call for war and murder. We are dealing here with a moving terrain where every kind of probability could happen any time. We will deal with any of these according to our own interests, to strengthen our victory, God willing, (For if God gives you Victory, no one can triumph upon you) God is trustworthy in his word.


*The government of stooges is asking the occupation forces to stay claiming that will prevent a civil war. Has your Excellency got the full confidence and the national guarantees to prevent such war in between Sunnis and Shias when the occupiers withdraw?

- It has become now a common knowledge that the stooges, the traitors and the spies have linked their fate with our homeland occupier's fate. It is natural that they yell for help and cling to the occupiers to continue their occupation of Iraq. The Occupiers and their stooges, know pretty well that they are living their last moments in our beloved and dearest Iraq. All Iraq problems and complicated conditions are due to the occupation, they will fatefully disappear with the end of the Occupation, because the people of Iraq has always been and will always be a unified people, never to be divided on sectarian grounds, ignorant racism which have been brought by the occupiers and their stooges from outside of our borders.


*The Kurdish north is about to be an independent state, you can't even see over there the Iraqi flag, and in this region they undertake ethnic cleansing against Arabs. Do you think that the Kurdish region got separated effectively and forever, or is it a temporarily separatism it will end when the occupation will end?

-The most important problem today in Iraq is the occupation. The occupation is the root of the Iraqi very suffering. When the occupation ends every thing which has been set and produced by it will disappear. Concerning our sons and daughters in the self-determination area, which is a truly dear and important part of our people and our Homeland, and we truly care about whatever can answer their legitimate rights within the frame of a unified and free Iraq as a homeland and as a people and as a sovereign state. As every one remembers we never held back anything they asked for! On the contrary the legitimate Iraqi government was the only one in amongst all the regional regimes, which gave the Kurds their rights within the self-determination law. However this law can be developed in whatever way to serve better our people in Erbil, Dohuk, and Sulaimaniyah after the liberation of Iraq soon, God willing.


*Every week we hear a responsible in the government of stooges shouting his mouth off and saying that Syria is supporting the "insurgents" and is opening its borders to the Arab combatants flowing to Iraq. Is there effectively any Syrian support, or are they just hollow pretexts and despicable lies, in order to encircle and then attack Syria?

-The campaigns against our sister Syria must be understood as a US reaction to its failure in Iraq. You have probably noticed and we will notice soon that such rowdy declarations increase whenever the US impasse gets deeper and the US confusion gets greater in Iraq. It is not a question of clandestine combatants or an outside support. They are just mere pretexts and despicable lies against the others. It is a US plan to get absolute hegemony over the whole region. The US campaigns will grow and will not only stop against Syria; they will probably go beyond against other countries. Before the occupation, our national leadership did warn our brothers and our friends about the US plans and we cautioned about the nature of the US colonialist project objectives to control the countries of the region.

That is why giving in to the US will not stop it, rather it will encourage it to get more aggressive, and to impose more conditions and exercise bigger pressure. The only and important thing, which disrupts the US evil plans, is the resolute answer of the Iraqi National Resistance and its defiance against the occupation forces and stooges.


*We often hear about the Iranian interferences against the Sunnis and the Iraqi resistance, and mainly through Badr militias and the Revolutionary Guards and some Hawzas. How can you value the Iranian role in your country?

- The role played by Iran into the aggression against Iraq and the participation into its occupation is a well-known fact today. There is a large coordination between the US administration and the Iranian regime. Both are deeply sunk and up to their necks into committing the most horrible crimes of killing and mass murders against all the sections of our people. The Iranian role will continue as long as there will be an occupation. It will end once the occupation disappears.

* Is Zarqawi a real name on the Iraqi scene? And if Zarqawi really exists how do you value its role? Do you have any contacts with his organization and his activities?

-The US administration and its stooges try to maintain a blackout on the real heroic and honorable role of the Iraqi National Resistance, through spreading lies such as clandestine combatants through the borders, etc. This administration fully knows that the ones who slit its throat in Iraq and the ones who put its nose into the mire are the sons and daughters of Great Iraq. The use of these vocabularies aims at confusing the World and the US opinion in particular, in order to continue fooling them concerning "Al Qaida" organization, and give Bush justifications to go on with his aggressive wars against the peoples of the world and specially his aggression against the people of Iraq and occupy it under the fallacious slogan of "fighting terrorism". In Iraq, we must remember that, before the crime of its occupation, the word terrorism or terrorists were unknown. The ones who are guilty of terror and terrorism are the occupiers and their stooges for they, who target our people through killing, detention and torture. Those who defend Iraq with courage, honor and dignity are the heroes of the Resistance with all its heroic factions.

Notice: We are always at your disposition to answer any question and what ever you want; we are very close to you!


Baghdad on the 30th December 2005

To be published on the site of al Moharer simultaneously with al Majd magazine, published in Jordan.