Posted on 03/18/2002 11:22:58 AM PST by vannrox
Ibrahim, vice president of Iraq’s ruling Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), is currently visiting the UAE in an effort to rally Arab states against a new US military offensive against Iraq at the same time that Cheney is touring the region to drum up support for an eventual strike. Iraqi leader to visit Doha
IRAQ’S number two Ezzat Ibrahim will visit Qatar today, close on the heels of US Vice President Dick Cheney, to discuss US threats to attack his country, a diplomatic source said in Doha yesterday.
The US has threatened to take military action against Iraq unless UN arms inspectors, pulled out on the eve of a December 1998 US-British bombing blitz, are allowed back in to check that Baghdad no longer has weapons of mass destruction. - AFP
Jordan's King Abdullah II, right, speaks with an envoy of Iraqi Leader Saddam Hussein, Izzat Ibrahim at an Amman hilltop palace Sunday March 10, 2002. Setting the tone for his meeting Tuesday with Vice President Dick Cheney, Abdullah told the envoy, that Jordan rejects the use of force against Iraq. (AP Photo)
Izzat doesn't look much better than Assad did, 3 weeks before his death:
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