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Iraq Urges Islamic Organization to Stop US Raids in Afghanistan
Iraq on Saturday accused the United States of killing civilians in Afghanistan and demanded the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to take "immediate" measures to stop the US attacks.
In a letter to OIC Secretary-General Abdelouhed Belkziz carried by the official Iraqi News Agency (INA), Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri Ahmed condemned the ongoing U.S. "aggressions" against Afghanistan and "killing" of Afghan civilians.
Ahmed accused the U.S. of firing missiles at warehouses, civilian homes, mosques, hospitals and schools in Afghanistan "in a show of arrogant power against unarmed people."
He urged Belkziz to hold consultations with the OIC general secretariat "to take appropriate measures, according to the charter of the organization and spirit of Islamic solidarity, to reject and demand an immediate end to the aggressions against a Muslim people and provide immediate help to the Afghan people to overcome the present crisis," the INA said.
He also criticized the communique of the OIC foreign ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar on October 10 for failing to condemn the U. S. "aggressions" against Afghanistan since October 7.
Iraqi officials and media have strongly condemned the U.S. military strikes against the Afghan Taliban regime, which has refused to surrender Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect of the September 11 terror attacks in New York and Washington.
The Taliban claimed on Saturday that at least nine people were killed and 15 others injured during a fresh wave of the U.S.-led air strikes on Kapisa Province.
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