Iraq Vows to Defeat 'Evil' US, Israeli Plans

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Iraq Vows to Defeat 'Evil' US, Israeli Plans

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Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said on Tuesday that Iraqis are ready to defend itself and defeat all the "evil" plans of the United States and Israel, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported.

"Iraqis of all sectors are ready to defend the soil of Iraq and able to defeat all the U.S. and British evil plans," Ramadan told a visiting Egyptian delegation, who in Iraq to take part in the Arab Popular Forces Conference held in Baghdad aiming to show solidarity with Iraq and Palestine.

Ramadan stressed that the Iraqi people are now "more powerful and courageous" than the past and "the previous years have proved Iraq's bravery and ability to foil any terrorist and hostile plans by the U.S. and its evil allies."

The Arabs should look "with admiration and appreciation" at the role of the Iraqis and Palestinians in confronting the "hostile" U. S. and Israeli acts, Ramadan said, urging the Arab people to show more support for the struggles of both Iraqis and the Palestinians.

Iraq has been under a decade-old U.N. embargo since its 1990 invasion of Kuwait and frequent U.S.-British air raids in the northern and southern no-fly zones set up after the 1991 Gulf War.

Iraq has so far been defying U.S. demand on the return of the arms inspectors, who withdrew out of Iraq on the eve of the U.S.- British air war in December 1998 and have not been allowed back since then.

U.S. President George W Bush has recently demanded that the Iraqi regime allow the arms inspectors back or face the possibility of fresh U.S. military attacks.

Iraq has repeatedly rejected the resumption of the arms inspections, accusing the inspectors of being spies collecting information for the U.S..

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