Chapter 674: Confession

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Jamal, who served as defense minister during the final years of Iraq's Baath Socialist Party, was a top student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who spent most of his time in seclusion in a small mountain village in Syria.

Throughout his life, he never appeared in front of the public again.

He became known again five years after the Gulf War, after the blood-stained tape incident.

Tripoli Tehran television broadcast a documentary on the anniversary of Saddam's death. Among them was a cassette tape of Saddam's last experiences before his death, a handful of blood-stained soil wrapped in a turban, and a manuscript of Saddam's last life. This is the famous "bloodstained tape" incident that shook the entire Middle East world.

After this event, many later historians called it the beginning of the era of the American War on Terror.

In 1997, Jamal and a group of former Iraqi Republican Guard soldiers orchestrated a dirty radioactive bomb to explode at the Pentagon of the U.S. Department of Defense. The stolen radioactivity and simple explosives from the hospital caused the Pentagon to suffer the heaviest losses since the founding of the United States. There are no twin towers, no civilian targets, but still in the name of a terrorist attack by the United States.

"Americans, you can decide when the war will start, but you can't decide when the war will end. ”

This video is a claim that Al Jazeera received after the 911 incident.

The material includes not only Jamal's confession video, but also how he and the Republican Guard "remnants" planned and executed the 911 attacks.

Almost a mockery of the strength of U.S. security policy.

However, in this video of Jamal's last moments, he does not talk too much about himself or the terrorist attack.

What comes out of the calm man's mouth in the video is more about the days after the peace talks broke down on December 15, 1990.

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After persuading President Mubarak to leave, President Ali Saddam returned alone to an underground command center outside Baghdad. He said: 'From now on, as long as he is in Iraq, there is no need for special security around him.' Any Iraqi is his trusted brother. ’”

A serene smile appeared on Jamal's face, as if he was reminiscing about something good.

However, the audience knows very well that it was the most brutal war, without the slightest warmth and beauty.

"From then on, I suddenly discovered that President Ali Saddam was completely different from when I first met him. ”

Before the war began, he gathered everyone in the command center and said calmly. ”

"I will die in this war, and I am ready to do so. But you are different, and everyone here is an elite among Iraqis and a flame of hope for our nation. If you don't want to face the fate of defeat with me, you can leave. There is no shame in this, because your life will be more difficult than facing death here, and the revival of Iraq and the Arab nation can only be hoped for. ”

"A group of soldiers who do not frown in the face of bayonets and bullets, but at this time they are crying in a mess. ”

"I think maybe President Saddam Hussein before that was not a perfect person. But at this moment, Ali Saddam was resurrected in his soul. President Ali Saddam Husseinβ€”"

Jamal's eyes were a little empty, showing a look of remembrance.

Ali Saddam, this is the holy name of Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War. Arabs in Middle Eastern countries will respectfully call Saddam "Ali Saddam" whenever they commemorate him, just as Christianity will call him "St. Paul" when it comes to Paul.

Of course, Saddam's life was not perfect, but in the last period of his life, he completed the sublimation and transformation of himself.

Jamal's memories confirm this fact.

"President Ali Saddam ordered me to bring him more than 30 pages of printer paper in the period before the war resumed. Yes, it was the previous part of that manuscript that was shown in the bloodstained tape event. I persuaded President Ali Saddam Hussein to seize the opportunity to rest, because command in war is very draining. I still remember, he said to me. There is not much time left for him, and if he wants to sleep, he can wait to go underground and sleep for a long time. While he was still alive, he wanted to record his thoughts about the country and the nation as much as possible. ”

"We should not forget that Ali Saddam Hussein, before he became president of Iraq, was already a revolutionary who was willing to sacrifice everything for the overthrow of royal rule in Iraq. For death, he only fears that his thoughts cannot be left to us. ”

"Bush didn't leave us much time, and in fact there wasn't much time left for him at that time, so much so that the Americans didn't even have time to make some excuses. The Soviet Union shipped a large number of goods on the oil market, not to mention waiting for a few days, every day of high oil prices was an extra breath of respite for the Soviet Union before it died. ”

"As soon as 12 hours passed, the U.S. forces broke away from the coalition forces and took a unilateral invasion. We have prepared for the offensive of the American army, but it turns out that it is still far from enough. At that time in the command center, the first time the war resumed, the entire map of Kuwait was red. Not the entire front, but the entire region of the army was attacked by the American army. ”

"The command center's liaison with the Kuwaiti front lasted only one day, less than 24 hours. Immediately after that, the wired lines were blown up, the wireless communications were disrupted, and we lost our sense of the front line. ”

"The commander of the Air Force, General Ahmed, personally piloted the plane and led all the combat planes in the country to take off and meet the group of attack planes of the US military taking off from Saudi Arabia. In less than five minutes from our front-line radar network, it was as if an endless swarm of U.S. military aircraft had appeared on the map. Compared to their huge fleet, the Iraqi Air Force is pitifully small. But this is only one of their operational directions, and at the same time more enemy planes from other directions have entered Iraqi airspace. First of all, the electronic warfare planes of the US military began to jam our warning radar, and although anti-jamming measures such as jumping, gain control, and coherent sidelobe cancellation were adopted, the radar nodes were still attacked by anti-radiation missiles of the US Air Force's Weasel Unit, and the general start-up time was less than 20 seconds. If you exceed that number, you will inevitably be attacked. Enemies of the United States, you must remember that under the threat of Hamm anti-radiation missiles, you must not turn on the aircraft for more than 20 seconds. ”

"The Iraqi Air Force and the Air Force have a belief in death, but this does not change the objective fact of the balance of power. At the beginning, every time a US fighter plane was shot down, the command center would be greeted with a burst of cheers. However, as time went on, more US fighters were shot down, and we couldn't cheer. ”

Jamal seemed to recall the mood at that time, and when he said cheering, he couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were full of energy. And then he said that more fighters were shot down, but his eyes were dull and the corners of his mouth were pursed.

"There were too many American planes, we shot down ten, twenty, and on the first day of the war, our air defense forces shot down seventy-two American planes. Our radar unit bravely withstood the attack of anti-radiation missiles and insisted on turning on the aircraft to provide battlefield support for the air force. It was precisely because of their sacrifices that the Air Force was able to achieve a three-to-one combat exchange ratio with the US military in the following battles. ”

After this battle, General Ahmed, under the orders of President Ali Saddam, led the transfer of warplanes to Iran and Syria, and was ordered to surrender to the governments of both countries. It is not that our Air Force does not have the courage to continue fighting, but that our airfields and air bases, already under the blow of countless Tomahawk cruise missiles at the time of their sorties. They have fulfilled their duties as warriors and are worthy of it. ”

"In the next five days of the main war, President Ali Saddam really didn't close his eyes for a minute, which almost broke through the limits of the human body, and I think it must have been because he had transcended the human body and became a saint walking on the earth. ”

"In the final stages of the war, Iraq's army has collapsed, the air force has surrendered to other countries, and our navy has long been wiped out. The commanders of the three armed services did not know what to do, the defense minister died in the US bombing, and President Ali Saddam personally appointed me as the last defense minister of Iraq. I swear to President Ali Saddam that this war will never end until the end of my life. However, President Ali Saddam ordered me to lead the last of the Republican Guard, as well as the personnel of the central command center, to begin evacuation. If necessary, it is possible to surrender to other countries. The most important thing is not to sacrifice one's life, but to preserve the revolutionary flame of the Arab Baath Socialist Party in Iraq. ”

"I ......"

At this point, the flame of life in Jamal's eyes seemed to have been completely extinguished, leaving only indifference.

His eyes were hollow, his hands were trembling slightly, and he could see from the TV footage that he swallowed softly.

"I was a coward, I didn't even protect President Ali Saddam Hussein until the last moment. My life lasted for five years, until I heard his voice again in the blood-stained tape. ”

"President Ali Saddam, I have fulfilled the mission you have given me. The evacuated comrades have settled down, they already have their own lives. Although our country is occupied by the United States, our soul will always be proud. ”

"I have completed your orders, and I am going to continue the war that is not yet over. ”

"My own war. ”