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Arab Nations Drop Request for U.N. Meeting on Iraq
reuters.com ^
| Wed April 9, 2003 04:21 PM ET
| Irwin Arieff
Posted on 04/09/2003 2:03:44 PM PDT by 11th_VA
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Reversing course as TV images showed a mob in Baghdad tearing down a statue of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Arab nations withdrew on Wednesday a request for a U.N. General Assembly meeting on Iraq.
"With the rapid developments, the Arab group has decided to put it on hold, pending more clarity in the situation" said one Arab envoy, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Several Arab envoys insisted the initiative had merely been suspended and would be revived at a later date.
But Kuwaiti Ambassador Mohammad Abulhasan, whose government opposed a special session from the start, predicted the request had been dropped definitively.
"It is not going to come back," Abulhasan told Reuters.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arableague; iraq; iraqifreedom; irrelevant; kuwait; liberation; un; victory; war
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Bush won, get over it ...
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:03:44 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
To: 11th_VA
2
posted on
04/09/2003 2:05:14 PM PDT
by
fuzzy122
To: 11th_VA
"With the rapid developments, the Arab group has decided to put it on hold, pending more clarity in the situation" said one Arab envoy, speaking on condition of anonymity. We got more of your clarity on the way, Arab envoy, speaking on condition of anonymity. Keep your TV on.
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:05:37 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: All
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:06:01 PM PDT
by
Support Free Republic
(Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
To: 11th_VA
It's really too bad they cancelled. I was looking forward to another rousing debate concerning each others' mustaches.
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:06:35 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: 11th_VA
I'm waiting for the big A.N.S.W.E.R. protest on Saturday.
Hahahaha!
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:06:42 PM PDT
by
angkor
To: 11th_VA
Like it was going to happen if they kept requesting.
read the Fox article
"Arabs Shocked, Awed by Fall of Baghdad"
Its great
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:07:08 PM PDT
by
dinok
To: 11th_VA
Their media is a little behind on the times. I found a page where you can see 29 Islamic newspapers' front pages all on the same page. It's here if anyone wants to take a gander:
Newspaper Front Pages from IRIBnews
Nothing at all about today's celebration by the LIBERATED that the regime they were oppressed by for decades is falling.
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:07:13 PM PDT
by
cgk
(the Mrs. half)
To: 11th_VA
Freedom won. Get used to it cuz its coming your way.
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:07:48 PM PDT
by
mad puppy
(We will be there for as long as it takes...)
To: 11th_VA
...pending more clarity in the situation...I got your clarity right here:
It's a Liberation, just like we promised.
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:07:53 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: 11th_VA
This makes me think of that SNL skit where Jesse Jackson did a game show called "The Question is Moot".
To: mad puppy
Freedom won. Get used to it cuz its coming your way.This was just one can of whupass...we buy it by the case. Bwa ha ha ha ha!
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:08:53 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Cyber Liberty
LOL......I was just thinking the same thing.
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:09:26 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(It's a great day to be an American -- or an Iraqi!)
To: 11th_VA
Ha!
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:09:35 PM PDT
by
k2blader
("Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful." - C. S. Lewis)
To: 11th_VA
Even they now admit that Saddam is up Tikrit without a paddle....
To: 11th_VA
Awwwwwww.
Afraid of a wittle itty bitty weto?
To: angkor
Me too. What are their signs going to say?
Perhaps: "Re-enslave Iraq"
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:10:28 PM PDT
by
3AngelaD
To: 11th_VA
This might be an appropriate time to remind everyone who's going to be chairing the UN Disarmament Committee in May. Yup. Iraq.
To: angkor
Who's got the list? Let the discrediting of LEFTISTS begin!
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:13:06 PM PDT
by
Windcatcher
("So what did Doug use?" "He used...sarcasm!")
To: 3AngelaD
What are their signs going to say? WANKERS OF THE WORLD - UNITE !!!
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posted on
04/09/2003 2:15:12 PM PDT
by
11th_VA
(Let's Roll)
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