Daily Mirror, London, March 30, 2003, Page 7

Now all that is left in the Baghdad sitting room is a sagging armchair - and an automatic rifle resting on enough ammunition to kill a hundred men.

The weapon is more than 20 years old, a relic from the Iran-Iraq war. But when the Americans come rolling into town, Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar will using it to kill as many as he can.

"The more of those American Bastards I get the happier I will be, " says the father of three.

	Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar doesn't feel more democratic since Bush started to bomb Baghdad into democracy. He wants to kill Americans and Brits.

Ghazwan, 59, is no ardent supporter of Saddam Hussein. He loves English pubs and American diners, often visited the UK and points out he was even educated in the US.

He is no friend of the Iraqi regime. He just hates George Bush and Tony Blair more. Ask why, and you get a one word answer: sanctions. ...

The sanctions were supposed to make Saddam’s people rise up against him. But as Ghazwan furiously says: "You stupid fools have done the exact opposite. " ...

Even when confronted with a litany of Saddam Hussein’s human rights abuses, torture chambers and secret police, he holds firm. "You say Saddam Hussein has killed many people - I say the UN sanctions have killed our children. Does Saddam Hussein kill children? No."

Bitterly, he adds: "You weren’t calling him a ruthless dictator in the Eighties when this place was dripping with money.

This is why, when our troops come to liberate him, he will be shooting to kill.

His gun may be a museum piece compared to the Allied tanks. But, with his family sent away, this former Iraqi soldier means to fight. And the is not on his own.

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