WAR ON IRAK

Sunday Mirror: I'LL SHOOT YANKS TO SAVE IRAQ

THE china has been packed away, the walls are bare and the family silver has been spirited away to a safer place.

Now all that is left in the Baghdad sitting room is a sagging armchair - and an automatic rifle resting on enough ammunition to kill a hundred men.

The weapon is more than 20 years old, a relic from the Iran-Iraq war. But when the Americans come rolling into town, Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar will use it to kill as many as he can.

"The more of those American bastards I get the happier I will be," says the father-of-three.

Ghazwan, 59, is no ardent supporter of Saddam Hussein. He loves English pubs and American diners, often visited the UK and points out he was even educated in the US.

He is no friend of the Iraqi regime. He just hates George Bush and Tony Blair more.

Ask why, and you get a one-word answer: sanctions