The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 305
In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful SIXTEENTH FRIDAY SERMON MARCH 08, 1991 COMPREHENSIVE ADVICE TO TRANSFORM THE DREAM OF WORLD PEACE INTO REALITY After reciting the Opening Chapter of the Holy Quran, AJ-Fatiha, Hamor said: ANOTHER TALE OF HORRIFYING ATROCITIES The Gulf War, which began on January 16, came to an end on the most horrifying night of February, 26. This was a night of such horrible atrocities that the like of it is not to be found in the rustory of man's modem warfare. The retreating Iraqi army and the city of Baghdad were made the target of so much bombardment throughout the night, that as far as I have studied the rustory of warfare, in no other country and in no other war have such horrific atrocities been committed and such one-sided bombardment been carried out. Observers say that the armies which were returning from Kuwait to Basra were made the target of such intensive bombing that the road from Kuwait to Basra was littered throughout with corpses, and that the shattered bits of trucks, cars, armoured personnel-carriers and many other kinds of transport were scattered everywhere. It was an unbearable scene of terrible destruction. This is the commentary of Western observers. The correspondent's voice broke and trembled repeatedly as he described the bombardment. He was saying that one could never imagine the horrifying bombing which was being carried out that night in Baghdad. HUMILIATION IN VIETNAM I have said this before that besides other factors, it is the ghost of the U. S. humiliation in Vietnam, transformed into inferiority complex, which keeps haunting them, and they want to get rid of this ignominy once and for all. That night seemed to be a night of uncommon 305