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To: Neocon who wrote (185025)9/21/2001 5:24:20 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
Arab League: Arabs out if Israel joins U.S. anti-terror campaign

By Reuters




DOHA - Arabs will not play a role in any campaign of retaliation for last week's attacks on the United States should Israel take part in such an effort, Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa said.

"It is not possible that Arab states join a regional or an international effort joined by Israel, because Israel is slaughtering (Palestinian) people," he told al-Jazeera satellite television in interview broadcast early on Friday.

Several Arab states have expressed backing for the United States in its call for an international coalition to fight "terrorism" after the deadly September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

Moussa noted Arab states had imposed a similar a condition in 1990 when the United States was building up a coalition to eject Iraqi troops from Kuwait.

"This is the second time in a dangerous international crisis in which the condition of action, coordination and cooperation is to exclude Israel," he said. Moussa said he did not expect any American retaliation against an Arab state.

"I do not expect that to happen. We have not received any assurances, but I don't think that will happen," Moussa said. "If any Arab country was touched, all fundamentals will change," he added without elaborating

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