``Fight them with your hands, God will disgrace them. God is great,'' the statement said.
At a news conference later Thursday, Sahhaf disputed the coalition claims of battle successes. ``All this is to cover their disappointment and inability,'' he said.
Sahhaf said Republican Guard forces battled coalition troops in the area south of Kut and ``taught them lessons, a catastrophe,'' inflicting heavy casualties and forcing a coalition retreat. ``We buried a lot of them today,'' he said.
He also claimed Iraqi forces killed scores of coalition troops on Wednesday at Basra.
``We're now trying to exhaust them, making them more tired until our leadership decides the time and method to clean our territory of their desecration,'' Sahhaf said.
The U.S. military reported only three Marines wounded in the fighting at Kut and said its forces were advancing into the outskirts on Baghdad unhindered by the Republican Guard."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...530638,00.html
"forcing a coalition retreat"
We now have forces operating inside Baghdad. When the leaders flee the country they will still be saying, praise Allah we defeated those infidels.