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real watcher
7/6/2002 (14:21) |
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I still doubt a big US attack on Iraq. What we see now is psychological warfare on a massive scale designed to bluff Iraq into giving up.
A US attack on Iraq might or night not topple Hussein -- but it would unquestionably cost many US casualties and destabilize the Middle East way beyond where we are now. Not to speak of a probable massive escalation of terror attacks against US interests around the world.
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Farrakhan in Iraq Hopes to Stave Off U.S. Strike
BAGHDAD -- U.S. Black leader Louis Farrakhan arrived in Baghdad late on Friday
saying he hoped to prevent a U.S. war against Iraq and hold talks with President
Saddam Hussein.
'Our purpose here to see the people of Iraq, hopefully the leadership and to see
what we can do to possibly stop a war,' Farrakhan told reporters at Saddam
Airport.
'I don't know that I will meet with President Saddam Hussein. It is my hope to do
so,' the leader of the Nation of Islam Movement said.
Condemned as an anti-Semite in the United States, Farrakhan was barred from
Britain in 1986 because the government said he expressed racist views, Reuters
reported.
Farrakhan said he would spend only 48 hours in Iraq and hoped he would 'do as
much as we can in that short period of time'.
It was not clear whether Farrakhan in his third visit to Iraq since the 1991 Gulf
War would mediate with Iraqi leaders on the return of UN weapons inspectors to
Baghdad -- an issue Washington wants to use as a pretext for a military
campaign.
'I bring a message from the people I represent and I hope it would be a
message from the (U.S.) government,' he said when asked if he carried a
message from the U.S. administration.
Iraq and the United Nations failed on Friday to reach an agreement to resume
weapons inspections after intensive talks involving Secretary General Kofi Annan
and Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri.
Farrakhan visited Iraq in 1996 and 1997 and met Saddam during the two trips.
He denounced Washington's 'wicked' policy toward Baghdad that he said was
leading to the 'mass murder' of the Iraqi people.
Farrakhan has led the Chicago-based African-American Muslim group since the
late 1970s. He stirred controversy in 2000 when he suggested Jewish
vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman was more loyal to Israel than the
United States.
Farrakhan in Iraq Hopes to Stave Off U.S. Strike
BAGHDAD -- U.S. Black leader Louis Farrakhan arrived in Baghdad late on Friday
saying he hoped to prevent a U.S. war against Iraq and hold talks with President
Saddam Hussein.
'Our purpose here to see the people of Iraq, hopefully the leadership and to see
what we can do to possibly stop a war,' Farrakhan told reporters at Saddam
Airport.
'I don't know that I will meet with President Saddam Hussein. It is my hope to do
so,' the leader of the Nation of Islam Movement said.
Condemned as an anti-Semite in the United States, Farrakhan was barred from
Britain in 1986 because the government said he expressed racist views, Reuters
reported.
Farrakhan said he would spend only 48 hours in Iraq and hoped he would 'do as
much as we can in that short period of time'.
It was not clear whether Farrakhan in his third visit to Iraq since the 1991 Gulf
War would mediate with Iraqi leaders on the return of UN weapons inspectors to
Baghdad -- an issue Washington wants to use as a pretext for a military
campaign.
'I bring a message from the people I represent and I hope it would be a
message from the (U.S.) government,' he said when asked if he carried a
message from the U.S. administration.
Iraq and the United Nations failed on Friday to reach an agreement to resume
weapons inspections after intensive talks involving Secretary General Kofi Annan
and Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri.
Farrakhan visited Iraq in 1996 and 1997 and met Saddam during the two trips.
He denounced Washington's 'wicked' policy toward Baghdad that he said was
leading to the 'mass murder' of the Iraqi people.
Farrakhan has led the Chicago-based African-American Muslim group since the
late 1970s. He stirred controversy in 2000 when he suggested Jewish
vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman was more loyal to Israel than the
United States.
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