Two other dictatorships oppose attack on Iraq. Surprise.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad expressed Monday their continuous opposition to an attack against Iraq and called on the UN Security Council "to force Israel to implement (international) resolutions and withdraw from the land it has occupied" in the West Bank since mid-June after a wave of suicide bombings. The two leaders "stressed the need to strengthen the international current opposed to a strike on Iraq so that reigning dictators the people of the region can avoid a disaster," said a joint statement published at the end of Assad's three-hour visit with Mubarak, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.
Just more of the same, but they have to keep saying it to try and keep the pot stirred...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-09-30 |