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Iraqi Conference Resumes After Walkout - WTOP Radio |
2005-11-20 |
![]() Shiite and Kurdish delegates left the closed session in disgust. "They are insulting the Iraqi people and they are insulting the constitution on which several million Iraqis have voted," Shiite legislator Jawad al-Maliki told reporters outside the chamber. "They want the situation in Iraq to go back to the way it used to be so that the mass graves can return." Iraqi government spokesman Laith Kuba accused al-Youssefi of "supporting in one way or another" the insurgency in Iraq. "This is totally unacceptable," he told the pan-Arab satellite channel, Al-Arabiya. Arab foreign ministers, particularly Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, promptly engaged the Shiite and Kurdish delegates and urged them to return to the chamber. Within the hour, Sunni delegate Mohammed Shehab al-Dulaimi told reporters the conference had resumed after the delegate apologized and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa ruled that al-Youssefi's comments would be struck from the record. |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 Feet first into the plastic shredder with Al-Youssefi! |
Posted by: mac 2005-11-20 06:20 |