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| Sammy shakes his fist at Kuwait... |
| 2003-01-28 |
| Iraq yesterday warned its tiny neighbor Kuwait of harsh retaliation in the event of a war in the Gulf as Britain said Baghdad had clearly ignored UN disarmament demands. "Kuwait is a battlefield and American troops are in Kuwait and preparing themselves to attack Iraq," said Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz late Monday in an interview with Canada’s CBC television. "If there is an attack from Kuwait, I cannot say that we will not retaliate. We will of course retaliate against the American troops wherever they start their aggression on Iraq. This is legitimate." He's just going out of his way to cheese off everybody in sight, isn't he? Asked whether Iraq would launch an attack on US territory, Aziz said: "No, because we don’t have the means and we don’t have the wish to make any mischief inside the United States." "We would if we did, though..." Kuwait reacted angrily to Baghdad’s threat. "The Iraqi regime will pay a high price if it makes a move that threatens the security and sovereignty and territorial sanctity of Kuwait," Defense Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah said in a statement to the official KUNA news agency. "This is yet another proof that reveals the hostile nature (of the Iraqi regime) and affirms that Kuwait has taken the correct choice of seeking aid of sisterly and friendly states for maintaining the sovereignty, stability and security of Kuwait," Sheikh Jaber said. That's us... I feel so... so... so multilateral. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |