Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

With an insurgency, people are the prize. We can win every battle and still lose the war.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War II, where you sign a piece of paper and the war is over. Today they're not in uniform. In my time we knew what the enemy looked like, we knew his weapons systems and such. Today, your cab driver may be the person, you have no idea. I don't know how we got into this fix, but we're there.

This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

If I had one more division like this First Marine Division I could win this war.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot.

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war. Only great and general battles can produce great results. Blood is the price of victory.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

Iraq will spread them even more and chop them up.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

When one nation is agreed in the policy of fighting another, any pretext will answer.

A Taliban collapse could be rapid, with the enemy shrinking to a small number of hard-core Mullah Omar supporters in the early days or weeks of a military campaign.

In modern warfare the role of those who institute it is often far removed from the conflict on the ground … I could see welcoming a weapon that eliminated the decision makers while leaving the innocent unharmed.