Them’s fightin’ words

Them’s fightin’ words
: We take the airport and they threaten. Says Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf:

“We will commit a non-conventional act on them, not necessarily military,” he told a news conference.

Asked if Iraq would use weapons of mass destruction — which it denies possessing — Sahaf said: “No, not at all. But we will conduct a kind of martyrdom (suicide) operations.”

Acts of dastardly desperation and devastation.