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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (25820)	1/10/1999 7:30:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 116762

Saudis, Egypt Urge Saddam's Ouster Sunday, 10 January 1999 B A G H D A D , I R A Q (AP) IRAQ'S FOREIGN minister on Sunday accused Saudi Arabia and Kuwait of actively supporting U.S.-British airstrikes last month and urged Arab governments to ignore U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Saudi Arabia's official news agency, for its part, urged Iraqis to overthrow President Saddam Hussein, saying he had killed and tortured thousands of his own people. Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa echoed that unprecedented appeal, saying that Saddam is "shaming the entire Arab region through his politics." His comments were to be published Monday in The Berliner Kurier newspaper. The Saudi and Egyptian statements - the first direct call by Arab governments for Saddam's ouster - come a few days after Iraq's president exhorted Arabs to rise up against rulers "who boast of friendship with the United States." The exchange marks an escalation in the already bitter feud between Iraq and Arab allies of the United States. The Iraqi Parliament, meanwhile, backed off on threats regarding Kuwait on Sunday and adopted a vaguely worded statement in its latest spat with the United Nations. In earlier weekend debates, legislators called on the government to rescind its 1994 recognition of Kuwait's borders and to stop honoring all U.N. resolutions related to Iraq. But the statement adopted by Parliament merely called for further discussion "of unfair resolutions and measures which contravene international law and the U.N. charter." Iraq was encouraged by popular protests throughout the Arab world after the mid-December airstrikes, and it has been disheartened that its fellow Arab states did little to support it. Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said Kuwait and Saudi Arabia "have participated directly and effectively" in the U.S.-British attack, which targeted military and government buildings in Iraq. Hundreds of American cruise missiles sailed through Kuwaiti air space during the bombardment, he told reporters. Dozens of U.S. and British warplanes flew over Saudi Arabia and Kuwait during the four days of airstrikes, which came after U.N. weapons monitors said Iraq was blocking their work. Also, U.S. and British aircraft patrolling a no-fly zone over southern Iraq operate from air bases in the two Persian Gulf states. Sahhaf said Iraq will demand compensation from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for "all physical, material and psychological damage" inflicted as a result of the southern no-fly zone. The United States and Britain imposed no-fly zones over southern and northern Iraq in an effort to protect rebellious Shiite Iraqis in the south and Kurds in the north from Iraqi military assault. Sahhaf added that U.S. aircraft dropped leaflets printed in Kuwait that urged soldiers in barracks in southern Iraq not to move from their positions. Meanwhile, in a move that could ease tensions among the bickering neighbors, an official of a Persian Gulf country said that Saudi Arabia will propose an easing of sanctions against Iraq. The move was to be made later Sunday at a meeting of foreign ministers of six Persian Gulf nations. The official spoke on condition of anonymity. Saudi Arabia was making the proposal apparently to defuse popular opposition to the sanctions within Arab countries. The embargo has impoverished Iraq's once thriving middle class. Sahhaf said the minimum step should be a unilateral lifting of sanctions by Arab countries. U.N. resolutions say the sanctions will only be lifted after U.N. weapons monitors certify that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction. The sanctions were imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, which triggered the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (25820)	1/10/1999 7:56:00 PM
From: Giraffe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

>>You assert that the US "created" Saddam. Well, I have to ask you why Iraq's military consists of largely Russian and French equipment, with a smattering of South African 155 howitzers..<< I wasn't referring to where he shopped for his toys - we could also mention that he bought much of his chemistry set from the Germans, Italians and Brits - I was simply pointing out that his grossly inflated status in the American pantheon of demons is a result of your traditional need for some swarthy foreigner to distract you from domestic issues. >>Now I could see you claiming that Saudi Arabia or Iran under the Shah were largely supported by the US given the amount of equipment we sold to them<< House of Saud and the the Shah were diminished (in the eyes of much of the world, especially the Arabs) by US support. Saddam is obviously a very important man cause the US makes such a fuss over him. That's what I mean when I say he's the creation of the American military/media etc.