Iraq Suggests Special Arab League Meeting on US Threats

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Iraq Suggests Special Arab League Meeting on US Threats

Iraq's head of parliament suggestedon Monday the Arab League hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the threats of the US administration against Iraq, the official Iraqi News Agency reported.

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Iraq's head of parliament suggestedon Monday the Arab League hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the threats of the US administration against Iraq, the official Iraqi News Agency reported.

In a letter to Amr Moussa, secretary general of the Arab League,Iraq's National Assembly Speaker Saadoun Hamadi said the US threatsagainst Iraq constituted "a threat to international security and peace and a flagrant violation of the United Nations charter and the International law."

US President George W. Bush, who branded Iraq as part of an "axis of evil," has vowed to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by using all the possible tools he has.

Iraq has remained adamant in the face of US threats.

The National Assembly had sent letters to its Arab counterparts and called on the Arab parliaments to hold an emergency session forthe Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union to discuss the US threats against Iraq as soon as possible, the INA reported on Friday.

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