MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF, IRAQI INFORMATION MINISTER (through translator): caught my attention that there was an American prisoner. She was being treated in Nasiriya. And those villains and their heroes they call themselves, they came to the hospital in Nasiriya where she has been treated and they took her -- took her. They rescued her. But they found the bodies of their dead, about 10 people being dead, their corpses of American soldiers there. They found that. So when they were asked, they said we didn't know. They just didn't tell the truth. So I say -- I tell you -- I'm telling you, it's not only the corpses of their soldiers that they found, did not -- did not tell the families of those people who have been killed what was their fate. Those people have been killed the third day of the invasion or the fourth day, actually (ph), for doing such a foolness</s>BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: OK. Mohammed Saeed Sahaf, the Information Minister. We are hearing from him the second time today. A number of things said in that statement talking about tanks being destroyed on behalf of the coalition, saying the coalition, the U.S. and the British, would be taught a lesson, in his words. Earlier today, the Information Minister delivered a statement on Iraqi television that was attributed to Saddam Hussein, but no indication, no word, no videotape of the Iraqi leader today. This follows the pattern three days running right now, statements read by others on Iraqi television, but again, no sight of Saddam Hussein. TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Iraqi Information Minister News Conference