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Abdallah Assures Talabani of Help to Fight 'Terror' |
2005-05-08 |
![]() Talabani was accompanied by Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a fellow Kurd, and ambassador Ata Abdul Wahab, who was returning to Amman after a six-week absence for consultations. The reported involvement of a Jordanian in a suicide bombing that killed 118 people in the Shiite city of Hilla in late February sparked a wave of demonstrations against the Sunni kingdom that saw Jordanian flags and portraits of King Abdullah torched. Jordan recalled its ambassador for consultations but sent him back even after Iraq announced it was withdrawing Abdul Wahab in a tit for tat move. Jordan "stands firmly next to Iraq in its struggle against terrorism, terrorists and all who support them," said the statement. Talabani, meanwhile, expressed "Iraq's determination to develop and reinforce relations between the |
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