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...Iraqi TV had repeatedly announced to viewers that the speech from Saddam was coming up shortly. In the hour before Saddam appeared on the screen, the TV broadcast Arabs singing patriotic songs, images of Saddam and pictures of Iraqi national landmarks, including the military parade ground in Baghdad that features two sets of huge crossed swords. The broadcast was introduced and ended with martial music as the screen displayed the eagle that is the Iraqi national symbol. Saddam sat in what appeared to be a makeshift studio, with a backdrop consisting of what seemed to be an ordinary, wrinkled white...
...piece of paper, and he turned through them quickly. He read his statement in his familiar throaty monotone, occasionally raising his voice but otherwise showing little overt emotion including anger. He looked much more composed, exhibiting his customary defiant confidence in comparison to the shaken figure seen in the broadcast last Thursday...
...broadcast repeatedly cut between angles from two different cameras. But it was not immediately clear to the naked eye that the broadcast had been edited. Both the images and the sound recording seemed continuous and uncut...
...Saddam's first broadcast to the nation came a few hours after the strikes early on March 20, but U.S. officials speculated that it could have been pre-recorded prior to the bombing raid. Some even suggested that the speaker may have been a body double rather than Saddam himself. This speech, too, may have been pre-recorded but it was clearly done recently given the references to recent battles...
...Saddam Hussein's forces have survived the "shock and awe" phase designed to obliterate their will to resist, and they're putting up a fight. That's good news for the Iraqi dictator, and he seized the propaganda moment with a TV broadcast hailing the resistance of his forces and urging them on. Still, the duration of their resistance of his regime may be determined by the outcome of the battle beginning on the southern approaches to Baghdad, as the U.S. Third Infantry Division comes face to face with the Medina Division of Iraq's Republican Guard...