The full text of a handwritten letter said to be from the ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, published by al-Quds - a London-based Arabic newspaper - on 28 May, as translated by BBC Monitoring:
In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
"Throw that which is in thy right hand: quickly will it swallow up that which they have faked; what they have faked is but a magician's trick; and the magician thrives not, (no matter) where he goes."
The letter called for action against several Arab rulers
From Saddam Hussein to the mujahideen everywhere; to the
courageous sons of Arabism; to members of the Arab Socialist
Baath Party peace unto you and God's mercy and blessings.
While we fight and hunt the cowardly American and British
enemy, we call on you to activate your political role by
boycotting everyone that the criminal invading forces
install to manage any of the Iraqi governmental and popular
We also call on you, o brothers in jihad, to expel every
traitor who supported the aggression or came with it, who
falsely call themselves Iraqis. Boycott them and leave it to
us to carry arms for destroying the criminal United States
and those with it.
Know, o brothers in jihad, that every American and Briton
will continue to live on the land of the Arabs frightened,
worried and terrified if they do not withdraw from Iraq and
change their positions towards the criminal Zionist
occupation of Arab Palestine.
What we are asking from you is not impossible or difficult,
despite the collusion of the regimes that were paid the
price for selling Iraq with more humiliation and disgrace,
such as the traitor [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak's
regime, the cowardly and perfidious Jordanian regime, the
traitors from the al-Saud [Saudi royal family] and the
cowardly al-Sabah [family] in occupied Kuwait.
We tell our brothers in the Syria of Arabism do not become
weak as this will only increase their transgression against
you; demonstrate a defiant true Arab and Islamic spirit and
do not be like the other regimes that are preventing
assistance to their resistance brothers after having handed
over a number of them.
O mujahideen of the Muslims and Arabs and o Baathists
everywhere: this is your day when you must show your role
which you cannot accept being confined to enthusiastic words
that lack the right action.
Your Iraq urges you to increase the fears, worries and
terror of America's cowards while we continue to strike them
Long live every honourable mujahid. Long live the courageous
sons of Iraq who are resisting the occupier. Long live the
al-Faruq Brigades and al-Hussein units. Long live the army men who are fighting an
honourable guerrilla war. Long live the Arab Socialist Baath
Party members. Long live the mujahidat daughters of Iraq.
God is Great. Long live Iraq. Long live Palestine free and
Arab from the sea to the river. Let the accursed be cursed.
The fourth written letter.
BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.