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

To: Captain Jack who wrote (12108)	12/21/2001 11:15:27 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Captain. Looks like Saudi Arabia thinks Iraq will be next. Saudi Arabia 'ready to attend all Arab meetings' IYADH: Riyadh is prepared to attend all Arab meetings, including a summit called by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz said on Wednesday. But a Saudi daily dismissed as "cheap political bidding" Saddam's call for an emergency Arab summit to discuss the escalating Palestinian-Israeli conflict. "Saudi policy consistently favours attending Arab meetings. We have never abstained," Prince Sultan was quoted by Al-Iqtissadia daily as saying. He was replying to questions about the kingdom's response to Saddam's call for an extraordinary Arab summit and whether Riyadh will attend an urgent meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on Thursday. "But we don't want to hear just nice talk. We want to see words translated into action," Prince Sultan said. Saddam urged Arab leaders Tuesday to put aside their differences and hold an emergency summit on Israel's "aggression against the Palestinians," preferably in the Saudi Muslim holy city of Mecca. Arab League chief Amr Mussa also said on Tuesday an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will go ahead as planned on Thursday in the Egyptian capital. But the Saudi newspaper Okaz strongly criticized Saddam's call, describing it as "cheap political bidding" to exploit the Palestinian people's misery for his own benefit. "The last thing this (Arab) nation needs at this stage is cheap political bidding over its causes by people who constitute a political burden exceeding the danger from enemies," Okaz said in an editorial. The paper said Saddam issued his call because he knows that the US-led anti-terror war will shift to his regime after Afghanistan. This attempt will not "get ... Saddam Hussein out of his Arab and international isolation ... and will not keep away the anti-terror gallows which are inching closer toward his neck," the daily said. timesofindia.indiatimes.com