“They [US soldiers] started to commit suicide on the Baghdad walls. We will encourage them to double their suicide attempts.”

— Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf

BBC Monitoring (7 April 2003) "Iraqi information minister denies presence of US forces in Baghdad" (as US forces reported entering the center of Baghdad)

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