Iraq Envoy Dubs Kuwait 'Monkey' at Islamic Summit (Outburst at Islamic Summit)

Iraq Envoy Insults Kuwait at Muslim Summit on War
Wed March 5, 2003 05:28 AM ET
By Ghaida Ghantous
DOHA (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's right-hand man, Izzat Ibrahim, lashed out at U.S. ally Kuwait on Wednesday, calling its representative at an emergency Islamic summit in the Qatari capital Doha a "monkey" and a "traitor."
"Shut up you minion, you (U.S.) agent, you monkey. You are addressing Iraq," spat out Ibrahim, the second-in-command of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council, as the unidentified Kuwaiti delegate tried to interrupt his tirade.
The live television broadcast of the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit's opening speeches was cut off as the shouting erupted and the Kuwaiti delegation briefly walked out.
"You are insolent. You are a traitor to the Islamic nation," Ibrahim added as Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani shouted him down.
The official from Kuwait, which was liberated from Iraqi occupation in 1991 by a U.S.-led force -- and is now host to thousands of U.S. troops preparing for a new war on Iraq -- tried to shout back but could not be heard over the fray.
But after Ibrahim was silenced, the Kuwaiti said "These are all lies. These are the words of an infidel and a charlatan."
Ibrahim is said to be among Iraqi leaders earmarked for capture or killing in case of a U.S. invasion of Iraq -- and the summit put him in easy range of U.S. troops in Qatar.
The summit venue is a hotel used by the U.S. military to arrange media coverage of a possible war, and the U.S. base on the other side of Doha houses several thousand U.S. troops and the headquarters which would direct any attack on Iraq.
Ibrahim was among leaders and senior officials from the world's Islamic states meeting to try to rally the voices of one billion Muslims against war on Iraq.
In his speech, he reminded delegates his country had suffered 12 years of U.N. sanctions, which he said was much more than what Kuwait had gone through.
IRAQ 'STILL HARBOURS ENMITY'
Kuwaiti Information Minister Sheik Ahmad Al-Fahd Al-Ahmad told reporters outside the chamber "this proves that Iraq still harbours enmity toward Kuwait." He said Kuwait would lodge a formal protest with the OIC but was not withdrawing from the one-day summit.
"It will take a miracle to resolve the Iraq crisis and this miracle is in the Iraqis' hands," the Kuwaiti minister said. "But time is running out."
The outburst underlined the improbability of any war-stopping initiative from the extraordinary summit of the 56-member OIC.
Only a quarter of the countries in the world's largest Islamic grouping sent their heads of state. Some warned it might only serve to underline their diplomatic impotence.
Osama al-Baz, an aide to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, said he did not expect new proposals.
Host nation Qatar said it hoped the summit would at least send a strong message to Baghdad and Washington that Muslim nations wanted every effort made to end the crisis peacefully.
OIC Secretary General Abdelouahed Belkeziz said the Islamic nation "with all its political weight, power and resources" could makes its voice heard if it was united and sincere.
Recent Muslim summits have been marred by arguments and two Muslim initiatives to prevent war have been discarded.
At the Arab League summit in Cairo on Saturday a row exploded between the Saudi and Libyan delegations, and the final resolutions were watered down to appease all attendees.

Inmates running the asylum over there.

This is what we have to look forward to if the rats ever get control of the government again. That could mean both the behavior and Islamic rule.

Seriously, these are good times compared to what may come, people. Adults in charge and all. Imagine if Hillary does get elected? Thank God now while you still can without getting shot.

The Iraqi even resorted too the dreaded "may a curse be upon your mustache," line...

Evidently that's extremely insulting over there.

Now why won't they do this at the UN?

The squabblings of children in a sand box.

"Book the terrorist-monkey, Dano"

The Iraqi even resorted too the dreaded "may a curse be upon your mustache," line...

I heard this "insult" on Fox news this morning and couldn't stop laughing. Of course, the perfect comeback line from the Kuwaiti should have been........and may curses be upon your mother's mustache too!

And now for the AP version.... Coverage of the religion of peace continues.

Shouting Match at Islamic Unity Summit

By SALAH NASRAWI
Associated Press Writer

Iraq's vice president shouted, "Shut up, you monkey!" at a Kuwaiti diplomat Wednesday during an emergency summit of Islamic nations that sought but failed to develop a new position on preventing a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq.
In the end of the day, divisions remained too strong and delegates to the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference summit broke up with a final statement welcoming Iraqi cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors and expressing hope it would continue.

They rejected war against Iraq and urged Islamic countries to abstain from participating in military action against Iraq or any other Islamic nation.

Earlier, Sheik Mohammed Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, the Kuwaiti minister of state for foreign affairs, interrupted Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri's speech to the summit with an inaudible remark. Al-Douri responded - his remarks aired live by Arab satellite television stations - with "Shut up you monkey. Curse be upon your mustache (honor), you traitor."

He derided Kuwait's foreign minister, saying, "Today, you see how in all swaggering and rudeness, he ... threatens Iraq's security at the core and calls on American troops to amass in his land _" At that point, he was interrupted by an inaudible remark from Sheik Mohammed Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah.

Al-Douri retorted, "Shut up you monkey. Curse be upon your mustache, you traitor" - using a traditional insult to a man's honor.

"This is hypocrisy and falsehood," Sheik Mohammed shot back, in remarks aired live by Arab satellite television stations.

Kuwaiti Information Minister Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed leaped up and waved a small Kuwaiti flag.

The summit's host, Qatari emir Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, admonished al-Douri, telling him: "You started your speech with a verse from the Quran saying, `Thou shalt be united by the word of God." The emir then moved on to the next speaker - from Afghanistan - saying, "We are not here for such exchanges."

Iraqi delegates left the room briefly until they were persuaded to return. "The Iraqis always behave like this," Sheik Ahmed said.

Sheik Hamad tried to shift the summit focus back to its lofty goal of unity, closing the session by saying: "We are eager to make this summit a success ... and the proof is that you are all here with the aim of sparing the region any action that will destabilize the security and peace."

Calls for Saddam to quit power and go into exile have grown stronger among fellow Arabs.

The United Arab Emirates proposed at an Arab League summit Saturday in Egypt that Saddam step down, an idea favored by Gulf countries and openly advocated by Kuwait, where there is no fondness for the regime that invaded in 1990 and occupied the country until the 1991 Gulf war.

Iran put forward its own Iraqi peace proposal Tuesday that urged the divided Iraqi opposition to reconcile with Saddam and called for U.N. supervised elections.

Though it appeared unlikely either proposal would be discussed formally at Wednesday's summit, they weren't far from delegates' minds.

Shortly before al-Douri's speech, Kuwait's foreign minister, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, used his speech to urge Iraqi leaders to consider exile as a way out of the crisis.

"Kuwait, while it supports this (Emirates) initiative that aims at sparing the region a destructive war ... calls on the Iraqi leadership to think in depth about offering the ultimate sacrifices," he said.

Osama El Baz, a key adviser to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, told reporters in Doha the Iranian proposal is "serious" and deserves consideration. Iraqi exiles, however, have been skeptical at best of the Iranian plan; even the Iranian-based Shiite Muslim Iraqi opposition group, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, has rejected it.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, when asked about the Emirates' proposal, said: "That's over."

"Any calls for stepping down should be directed to Mr. Bush, who is causing his country to be hated around the world and is becoming public enemy No. 1," Sabri added of President Bush. Asked about the Iranian proposal, he said: "There is no Iranian proposal."

On Monday, a meeting in Doha of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council gave preliminary backing to the Emirates' initiative but did not formally endorse it, saying it should be discussed further in the Arab League. In addition to Kuwait, Bahrain has lent its full support to calls for Saddam's ouster. Both Gulf states host thousands of U.S. military personnel primed for war.

Saturday's Arab League summit declined to discuss the Emirates' proposal; that meeting, too, saw an angry exchange of insults during remarks about Gulf countries' willingness to host American forces. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Saudi King Fahd had acknowledged to him a willingness to "cooperate with the devil" to protect his country from Iraq during the 1990-91 Gulf crisis. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah called Gadhafi "an agent for colonizers," and the session was abruptly halted.

I wonder if they will become more like the Taiwanese and start having fist fights? (okay, they will be slapping each other)

Here is a good place for me to say something I've been thinking. You hear a lot about 'innocent iraqis', and I'm sure there must be some. But Saddam doesn't do all this evil alone any more than Hitler and his top level henchmen coordinated the last world war. There are thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of iraqi monkeys who are guilty as sin. They need to be neutralized even though they are all going to be squealing "I good Iraqi, not bad iraqi" when we occupy. Just like those good chermans after ww2.

Most people on this site realize that like it or not WWIII has been underway for some time now. Whether or not it turns into armageddon depends a lot on our willingness to do what it takes to destroy evil. The outcome is far from certain.