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| Axis of Evil |
| Iraq urges Gulf states to attack US servicemen |
| 2002-12-11 |
| A senior Iraqi official called on Gulf governments Wednesday to halt a mounting US military buildup on their soil as a state-run daily urged their citizens to launch attacks on American servicemen. "We hope Gulf Arabs will stop allowing US forces to use their territory to prepare an aggression against Iraq," said Salem Qubaisi, chairman of the Iraqi parliament's foreign affairs committee. "Such an aggression would have disastrous consequences for inter-Arab relations," he warned. Such as they are Qubaisi recalled that President Saddam Hussein had issued a strong warning to Kuwaiti authorities to stop plotting with the United States, in a keynote address Saturday that included an unprecedented apology to the Kuwaiti people for Iraq's 1990 invasion. That one went over well, not! Earlier the state-run daily Iraq hit out at Qatar for hosting a weeklong US-British command exercise. The Internal Look war games, which opened at the As-Sayliyah base outside Doha on Monday with the participation of some 1,000 US and British troops, was a precursor to an "attack on a good neighbour", the Al-Iraq newspaper charged. "The leaders of countries hosting such manoeuvres have forgotten Iraq's policies and the resolve of its people to resist foreign attack," the paper said without directly naming Qatar. Oh, I think they know all about your policies, Saddam. Al-Iraq echoed a call by Saddam in Saturday's speech for Gulf Arabs to attack the thousands of US servicemen now based around the region. "In Iraq we believe it is a debt of honour for any Arab believer to attack the personnel and bases of the US occupation forces," the paper said. "Their dead will go to hell, but those who fall fighting them will be martyrs (who go to paradise)." "We'll fight untill the last Kuwaiti, Quatari, Saudi, etc" The Iraqi leader's praise for Islamic militants who recently launched a spate of attacks on US servicemen in Kuwait sparked condemnation from the emirate's authorities who accused him of a renewed violation of its security and sovereignty. The number of US servicemen stationed in Kuwait has ballooned in recent days to around 15,000, officials say. |
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