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Iraq papers threaten retaliation on Saudi, Kuwait
BAGHDAD, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The Iraqi press said on Monday that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were partly to blame for Friday's Western air strikes on Baghdad, and one newspaper threatened retaliation against the two Gulf Arab states.
"We are not hiding that we are determined to retaliate against the rulers of tyranny, distress and treachery in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia," the government newspaper al-Jumhouriya said.
"They know what we can do at the moment that God chooses as the right time," the paper said in a front-page editorial.
Baghdad has accused Saudi Arabia and Kuwait of taking part in Western attacks against Iraq as U.S. and British warplanes use bases in the two countries to patrol a no-fly zone in southern Iraq.
"It is not only America and Britain that are responsible for the criminal aggression on Iraq last Friday, the regimes in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are also to blame," the ruling Baath party newspaper al-Thawra said.
"Iraq has the right to take military measures and plans to retaliate against the aggressors and those who give them facilities in the event of future attacks," said Jumhouriya in a clear reference to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The paper said Iraq had emerged victorious from the Western attack on Baghdad, which Iraq said had killed two civilians and wounded 20. "We have won another battle of Umm al-Marek (mother of all battles -- Iraq's nickname for the Gulf War)."
Babel, owned by President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday, attacked U.S. President George W. Bush who ordered the attack on Iraq's defence systems around Baghdad on Friday.
"The moron son knows that his aggression is a failure and it will increase our determination to defend our right," Babel said.
BAGHDAD, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The Iraqi press said on Monday that Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were partly to blame for Friday's Western air strikes on Baghdad, and one newspaper threatened retaliation against the two Gulf Arab states.
"We are not hiding that we are determined to retaliate against the rulers of tyranny, distress and treachery in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia," the government newspaper al-Jumhouriya said.
"They know what we can do at the moment that God chooses as the right time," the paper said in a front-page editorial.
Baghdad has accused Saudi Arabia and Kuwait of taking part in Western attacks against Iraq as U.S. and British warplanes use bases in the two countries to patrol a no-fly zone in southern Iraq.
"It is not only America and Britain that are responsible for the criminal aggression on Iraq last Friday, the regimes in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are also to blame," the ruling Baath party newspaper al-Thawra said.
"Iraq has the right to take military measures and plans to retaliate against the aggressors and those who give them facilities in the event of future attacks," said Jumhouriya in a clear reference to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.
The paper said Iraq had emerged victorious from the Western attack on Baghdad, which Iraq said had killed two civilians and wounded 20. "We have won another battle of Umm al-Marek (mother of all battles -- Iraq's nickname for the Gulf War)."
Babel, owned by President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday, attacked U.S. President George W. Bush who ordered the attack on Iraq's defence systems around Baghdad on Friday.
"The moron son knows that his aggression is a failure and it will increase our determination to defend our right," Babel said.
