Times Online - Saddam: ‘Make me a martyr’

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Times Online - Saddam ready for ’sacrifice’ as Baathists vow revenge

“I sacrifice myself. If God wills it, he will place me among the true men and martyrs,” he wrote. “O faithful people, I bid you farewell as my soul goes to God the compassionate…Long live Iraq. Long Live Iraq. Long live Palestine. Long live jihad and the Mujahidin. God is great

Gracious, I thought Iraq had nothing to do with the War on Terror?