Special Document:

Statement by the Iraqi Branch of the Arab Socialist Baath Party.

(Arabic Follows English)



In the name of God, the Merciful, the Mercy-giving.

The Arab Socialist Baath Party.

"One Arab Nation, With an Everlasting Mission."

"Unity, Freedom, Socialism."



Statement on the imprisonment of our comrade the General Secretary by

the occupation forces in Iraq.

Sons and daughters of the Iraqi people and the Arab Nation!

Baathist Comrades!

In the course of the on-going confrontation between the heroic Iraqi

Resistance led by the Arab Socialist Baath Party and the occupation

forces and their stooges in Iraq, and at a time of intensified

operations by the occupation forces as they desperately attempt to

strike at and stop the escalating armed Resistance, American

occupation forces with the help of mercenary traitors managed to

carry out a combined operation that targeted a number of alternative

points