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To: Ilaine who wrote (50670)	10/10/2002 4:53:39 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "Great Britain, Australia, Israel, Kuwait, Turkey. That's five." Turkey has repeatedly stated that they're not going to support unilateral action. They've said this as recently as two days ago: GUREL: “TURKEY WILL NOT TAKE ANY RISKS IN IRAQ” TurkishPress.com, October 8, 2002 Speaking at a campaign rally for the Democratic Left Party (DSP), Foreign Minister Sukru Sina Gurel yesterday stated that Turkey didn’t want a war in Iraq and that it was willing to do whatever it could to prevent a military operation near its borders. He added, however, that were a war to break out, Turkey would take all necessary steps to ensure the security of the Turkish people and that it wouldn’t take anything which might endanger their safety. Commenting on the possible effects of a war, Gurel gave as an example the losses Turkey suffered as a direct consequence of 1991’s Gulf War and predicted that a military operation would have adverse effects on all the countries of the region. turkishpress.com Kuwait has repeatedly stated that they will not support a unilateral action against Iraq. They've stated this as recently as two days ago: Kuwaiti, Icelandic MPs discuss Kuwaiti, Arab issues Kuwaiti News Agency, October 8, 2002 Kuwaiti Parliamentarians visiting Iceland told their hosts on Tuesday that Kuwait sought a peaceful solution for the current Iraqi crisis in the Gulf region. In a press statement issued here by the National Assembly, Mubarak Aldwaila, head of the visiting Parliamentary delegation told Icelandic MPs that *Kuwait was not a party to the ongoing conflict between Iraq and the UN or the US.* Aldwaila said that war in the region would have negative repercussions on the population of Iraq and those in neighboring states including Kuwait. He singled out the Iraqi people as the principal party that is being harmed by the continuing economic embargo on Iraq while Saddam Hussein and his cronies reveled in a life of profligacy and unfettered excess. Aldwaila, turning to the Palestinian crisis, told the Icelandic MPs that Kuwait had always championed the cause of the Palestinians in having a homeland of their own. He denounced Israel's policies in the occupied territories considering them a form of state-sponsored terrorism against the defenseless Palestinians. The Kuwaiti lawmakers extended at the end of their visit to Iceland an invitation to Icelandic lawmakers to visit Kuwait. kuna.net.kw Banishment of Saddam is preferable to war--Kuwaiti official Kuwaiti News Agency, October 8, 2002 Changing the regime in Iraq by banishing Saddam Hussein would be a better option than subjecting the region to war, Kuwaiti Assistant House Speaker Meshari Alanjeri said here on Tuesday. "Basically we oppose war in our region," but banishing Saddam and his cronies to Algiers, China or Mauritania would be acceptable to Kuwait, he told the Algerian newspaper "Alyom" in its issue coming out today. Regarding a strike on Iraq, he said, "*we reject the notion unless it is issued by the United Nations."* He said he doubted Iraqi officials' statements that their country was free of weapons of mass destruction and wondered why Iraq was in such a case making big noise over the issue of allowing the inspectors back in to do their job." Alanjeri told the newspaper that Iraq in its dealing with other states was used to "lies and prevarications" and cited its conduct regarding the case of the Kuwaiti POWs. "Anybody who lies about a humanitarian case as the one on the POWs will easily lie about other cases such as the one about hiding weapons of mass destruction." kuna.net.kw -- Carl