OIC summit: Iraq, Kuwait exchange bitter names

Bitter enmity between Iraq and Kuwait erupted in a slanging match on Wednesday at an Islamic summit to unite the world’s Muslims agains...

Bitter enmity between Iraq and Kuwait erupted in a slanging match on Wednesday at an Islamic summit to unite the world’s Muslims against war. In a clash caught live on television before the Qatar state broadcaster shut down transmission, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s top aide Izzat Ibrahim departed from his text to zero in on the Kuwaitis sitting across the conference chamber.

‘‘Shut up you minion, you (US) agent, you monkey. You are addressing Iraq,’’ Ibrahim said. ‘‘You are insolent. You are a traitor to the Islamic nation,’’ he spat out as Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani tried to shut him up.

A Kuwaiti delegate responded that the insults were ‘‘the words of an infidel and a charlatan’’, as the two sides shouted and gesticulated angrily at each other.

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Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al Ahmad al Sabah said the clash proved that only the exile of Saddam and his leadership could avert war. This step was ‘‘the only thing and the miracle that can end this matter is in the Iraqis’ hands’’, he said.

No new initiatives to halt the drive towards war were discussed, and the summit only agreed to a broad statement on Iraq which said diplomacy should be given more time.

The statement was not read on Qatar television, which only broadcast general closing remarks. ‘‘Islamic countries would not participate in any military action which targets the security and territorial integrity of Iraq or any Muslim country,’’ the statement said. (Reuters)

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