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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: joseph krinsky who wrote (6736)	10/9/2001 12:13:11 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Respond to of 27668

Don't Use 'Pretext of Terrorism' to Attack Us-Iraq {yada yada yada) DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said on Monday any targeting of Iraq by the United States and Britain would be using the ``pretext of terrorism'' to settle old scores. One day after U.S. and British forces began an air campaign over Afghanistan (news - web sites) to ``smoke out'' the prime U.S. suspect behind September 11 hijack attacks on New York and Washington, which killed nearly 5,600 people, the United States warned it may have to launch military strikes against other nations and groups. ``Should the United States and its ally Britain wish to expand the range of their aggression on Iraq under the pretext of terrorism that means they want to settle their accounts with Iraq,'' Sabri told al-Jazeera satellite television. U.S. and British forces began an air offensive on Sunday against Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, who had refused to hand over Islamic militant Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), Washington's main suspect in the hijacked airliner attacks that demolished New York's World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon (news - web sites) near Washington. Late on Monday U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte said in a letter to the United Nations (news - web sites) Security Council that U.S. self defense may require ``further actions with respect to other organizations and other states.'' But Sabri said Washington and London ``know that Iraq had no role in what happened in New York and Washington.'' The Iraqi foreign minister also denounced the continued enforcement of northern and southern no-fly zones over Iraq by U.S. and British fighter jets. ``Iraqi villages and cities are the target of shelling on a daily basis by U.S. and British aircraft,'' he said. Sabri is in Qatar to take part in an emergency meeting of the 56-member Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), called by Iran to formulate a Muslim stance to the U.S. attacks. ``They (OIC countries) should formulate a unified position that rejects aggression against Arab and Muslim states and rejects confusing terrorism with Islam,'' Sabri said. ``We hope that Arabs and Muslims would take a unified and just stance, because the aggression targets all Arabs and Muslims. The great terrorist campaign that the United States launched targets all.''