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  • Iraq Snubs Fresh Invitation to Damascus Meeting

    11/01/2003 4:09:58 PM PST · by TexKat · 1 replies · 96+ views
    Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 11/01/03 | Mariam Karouny
    DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Iraq's neighbors meeting in Damascus on Saturday formally renewed their invitation to Iraq to join the security talks, but the Iraqi foreign minister insisted the invitation had come too late for him to attend. The foreign ministers' meeting, focusing on postwar regional stability and border security, comes amid mounting U.S. concern that foreign guerrillas entering Iraq across porous borders are behind a wave of deadly attacks inside Iraq. "It is too little, too late," Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters. "It has come so late that it will be very difficult for me to get to...