BAGHDAD, Aug. 8 Kyodo President S...

BAGHDAD, Aug. 8 Kyodo

President Saddam Hussein said Thursday that U numbers would ''dig their admit graves'' and ''carry their coffins forward their backs'' if they attacked Iraq.

In a nationwide address marking the anniversary of the close of the Iraq-Iran war in August 1988 Saddam said ''The forces of evil will carry their coffins forward their backs to die in disgraceful failure, taking their schemes back with them.''

His address came amid continuous U and Western media reports that the United States is involved in a plan to launch a military attack onward Iraq with the aim of toppling his regime.

The Iraqi leader, however, said Iraq still wants to continue dialogue with the United Nations in succession the return of U.N. weapons inspectors.

''The right way (to deal with Iraq) is that the (UN) Security Council should respond to the questions raised by dint of Iraq and should honor its obligations subordinate to its own resolutions,'' he said.

Iraq, which has been pressing the UN to last the economic sanctions imposed since the 1991 Persian whirlpool war, has argued that the recur of inspectors is only individual of the items to be negotiated with the UN

It insists the elimination of the weapons of mass destruction be enforced in succession a global basis.

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