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Sparks fly at oIC summit Iraq strikes defiant tone

AFP, Doha
Sparks flew at an emergency Islamic summit yesterday, with Iraq's number two Ezzat Ibrahim branding Kuwait's junior foreign minister a "monkey" and vowing to teach the United States a lesson it would never forget.
Kuwait's Sheikh Mohammad Sabah al-Sabah rose to interrupt Ibrahim after the vice president of Iraq's Revolution Command Council accused Kuwaiti leaders of "plotting with Zionism against Iraq."
The Iraqi unleashed a volley of abuse. "You are small, a valet and a monkey," he charged.
"Shut up," Sheikh Mohammad lashed back, prompting an appeal for calm and decorum from the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, whose country is the current head of the 57-nation
Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC).
Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait in 1990 and was finally driven out of the emirate by a US-led military coalition in 1991.
Yesterday's nasty exchange marked an ominous start to a special OIC gathering called here to forge a unified Islamic response to US threats to invade and occupy Iraq.
But only a handful of Islamic heads of state or government, notably President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed, turned up for the one-day session, with most delegations represented by senior officials.
Organisers said they hoped to arrive at a resolution opposing any US or British assault on Iraq while appealing to Baghdad to respect United Nations disarmament
demands.
Sheikh Hamad in an opening address underlined the "exceptional circumstances" prevailing in the region and recognised that Muslims do not "have the international political or strategic decisions that direct and command these developments.
"Yet we can certainly influence the course of these developments."
He said the goal of the OIC should be to help "Iraq get out of this crisis in such a way that spares it and us a costly price or irremediable grave damage."
The summit comes as the United States and Britain mass nearly 300,000 troops in the region and are threatening to occupy Iraq to oust President Saddam Hussein and eliminate the weapons of mass destruction they say he is concealing.
Ibrahim, Saddam's deputy, vowed yesterday that Iraq would teach the United States "an unforgettable lesson" if it attacked Baghdad.
"We will give the invaders an unforgettable lesson," he warned, adding that Iraq was capable of raising an "army of seven million armed and well-trained men."
He appealed to fellow Islamic states to refrain from "according facilities to our common enemy" and insisted that rejecting aggression against Iraq was a religious duty for Muslims.