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| Arab League Sends Delegation to Iraq |
| 2003-12-21 |
| Wonder if they’ll tangle with the new Iraqi FM? An Arab League delegation is making the organization’s first official visit to Iraq since the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein. The delegation will meet with the U.S.-appointed Governing Council and tribal leaders to discuss security, reconstruction and other issues, league spokesman Hisham Youssef said from Cairo. The four-member delegation, which arrived Saturday, is led by Assistant Secretary-General Ahmed Bin Heli. The delegation will meet the Governing Council on Wednesday. Iraqi officials are expected to show the delegation evidence of human rights violations by Saddam’s regime. Followed by some pointed questions about the complicity of the Arab League. The Arab League, which groups 21 Arab nations and the Palestinians, objected to the U.S.-led war against Iraq and its members were split over how to treat the Governing Council. But in September, the league seated a Governing Council representative on a temporary basis. The Arab League wants bygones to be bygones. I sure hope the Iraqis don’t let that happen right now. Make ’em squirm. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 I recommend we fire Colin Powell and ask Iraq to share Zebari with us. We get a better Secretary of State (which is what a Foreign Minister is), and the Iraqis get a gigantic ego boost. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-12-21 6:02:12 AM |
| #5 Wonder if they’ll tangle with the new Iraqi FM? Hoshyar Zebari: Diplomacy through civil, well-reasoned discourse. What Rantburger could disapprove? |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-21 5:55:34 AM |
| #4 AP - Agree. Hell have the meetings *at* a mass grave site. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-12-21 3:41:37 AM |
| #3 The Iraqis ought to take the delegates out to the mass grave dig for starters, then they can listen to an Arab League lecture about Saddam's humiliation by an infidel medic. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-12-21 1:40:54 AM |
| #2 Every Iraqi should be allowed to take a good swift kick in the crotch to every one of those mutts. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2003-12-21 1:40:45 AM |
| #1 I think they call it "a frank and open exchange of views" in diplospeak... |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-12-21 1:04:07 AM |