Saddam Hopes UK Distances from 'Foolish' US Policy

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Saddam Hopes UK Distances from 'Foolish' US Policy

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Thursday expressed his hope that Britain would not follow the "foolish" US policy of launching military actions against Iraq.

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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Thursday expressed his hope that Britain would not follow the "foolish" US policy of launching military actions against Iraq.

During a meeting with visiting British Labor lawmaker George Galloway, Saddam expressed the hope that "Britain would not participate in the aggression against Iraq and stay away from the foolish American policy," the official Iraqi News Agency reported.

Galloway told Saddam that his hope is shared by some British people.

Galloway informed the Iraqi president of the "activities taken by some political and trade union figures in Britain" to call on the British people to oppose London's participation in the US aggression against Iraq, INA said.

Their activities are aimed to "retain the warm relations betweenBritain and the Arab nation and to protect the peace in the Middle East," Galloway was quoted as saying.

Earlier in the day, Saddam struck a defiant note against any aggression on Arabs and Muslims in his speech broadcast live on TV and radio nationwide.

"One of the lessons of recent and distant histories is that all empires and bearers of the coffin of evil, whenever they mobilized their evil against the Arab nation or against the Muslim world, they were themselves buried in their own coffin," he said.

His speech, officially marking the 14th anniversary of the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, came as the United States is piling up its threats to launch military attacks on Iraq.

US President George W. Bush has accused Iraq of pursuing weaponsof mass destruction and supporting terrorism and repeatedly vowed to topple Saddam.

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