“I think the decision the Iraqis have made to resist foreign occupation is a heroic decision,” he told Scotland’s Sunday Herald newspaper. “The individual acts carried out by people in the name of resistance may or may not be heroic. Some are undoubtedly heroic.
“The storming of a military barracks of a more powerful adversary in a classic guerrilla warfare operation is undoubtedly heroic. The bombing of children taking sweeties from an American soldier is clearly not heroic.”
Critics accused the 50-year-old of endangering British troops last week after he went on television in the Middle East to hail the Iraqi “resistance” for “defending all the people of the world against American hegemony”.
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