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Iraq threatens to destroy Qatar if they aid the US

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  1. Franchise2001

    Franchise2001 Contributing Member

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    Al-Joumhoreyah: Hussein threatens to destroy Qatar if Iraq is attacked from it
    Iraq-Qatar, Politics, 9/12/2002

    The Egyptian daily al-Joumhoreyah said in Wednesday that the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein threatened to destroy Qatar if Doha permits the US to use its military bases in attacking Iraq.

    The paper quoted Iraqi sources as saying that the Iraqi president launched the threats during his meeting in Baghdad recently with the Qatari foreign minister Hamad Bin Jasem Bin Jaber al-Thani.

    The sources described the meeting as the most difficult position the Qatari foreign minister had to face.

    It continued that Sheikh Hamad then headed to Iraq carrying a message from the USA on the need of opening Iraq's doors before the UN inspectors, otherwise "hell" is coming.

    Al- Joumhoreyah added that Saddam continued listening to the Qatari minister until he said that the US placed at the Aided military base weapons he has never seen before that will be used in the attack, then the Iraqi president said to the Qatari minister that his country will not accept such a threat.

    Saddam was quoted saying to Sheikh Hamad "if Qatar accepted to be a hireling, and to stand with the enemy of the Arab nation, Iraq will not accept that, nor attacking any other Arab country."

    The Iraqi president also threatened to destroy Qatar if it permits the US to use al-Aided base in launching attacks against Iraq. The sources said that the Qatari minister left the meeting very upset and left Baghdad immediately.

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    That's a lot of barking from a one-legged dog.
     
    #1 Franchise2001, Sep 12, 2002
  2. PhiSlammaJamma

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    If Hussein isn't willing to accept it, he'd better start looking for a nice cave to settle into. He knows we aren't bluffing. He's got to relent. He has absolutely nothing to gain by going to war. I feel for someone stuck in his position, because he has his pride too, but this one time he has to suck it up. Seriously. If he wants to live he just needs to "cave" in and swallow his pride.
     
    #2 PhiSlammaJamma, Sep 12, 2002
  3. glynch

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    I know the pro-war crowd will take this as just another reason why Iraq mjust be attacked asap. But...

    What do expect when you have a tiny state allowing itself to be used as a staging area for an umnprovoked attack against a much bigger neighbor?

    What did we do when Russia put missiles in Cuba? I know, most of you feel laws of international behavior do not apply to the superpower US or the devil Iraq.
     
    #3 glynch, Sep 12, 2002
  4. haven

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    Unprovoked attack?

    Come on glynch, even I think that's hollow rhetoric. Iraq, no matter what you think of the peace accords, is violating an agreement that they signed.

    It's provoked... the only question is whether war would be too extreme of an option (or, I suppose, whether the original invasion of Iraq was justified).
     
    #4 haven, Sep 12, 2002
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