How will the map of the region change if Iraq is attacked?
Of course I don t know the details of how Iraq will be divided. But what one can say is that Iraq will not be the only Arab country to be fragmented. One way of resisting America s scheme is to continue the Intifada in Palestine. Another is to support Syria in its campaign of diplomatic action to mobilize the Arabs. We have to use all the means available to confront the US plan. Better to die on our feet than to live in humiliation. We mustn t think Saddam Hussein is America s only target. Overthowing him is just the means to other ends. And what are these? One is to seize Iraq s oil fields. Another is to complete the encirclement of Iran and Syria, the bastions of resistance to Israel in the region. The Americans believe they can treat Iraq as they treated Afghanistan. They forget that Iraq is a country of great resources, not only mineral but human. It has a reserve of highly-trained manpower which is capable of taking effective steps to resist an invasion. It also has a resolute lea
