IRAQ URGES 'MARTYRS' TO ATTACK U.S.Byline: MARK DOWDNEY A UN arms inspector checks a chemical plant in Iraq - as Arabs were urged yesterday to attack US forces in Kuwait. A dossier of apparently innocent weapons documents was delivered at the weekend. Later a Baghdad governing assembly spokesman said: "We in Iraq and in the entire nation believe that every faithful Arab has the right, duty and the honour to confront these forces. "Members of these forces who are killed are accursed and those who die while confronting them are martyrs
The Iraqi News Agency said the spokesman was responding to Abdul-Rahman al-Attiya of the Gulf Cooperation Council in which he rejected an apology by Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein (born April 28, 1937, Tikrit, Iraq—died Dec. 30, 2006, Baghdad) President of Iraq (1979–2003). He joined the Ba'th Party in 1957. Following participation in a failed attempt to assassinate Iraqi Pres. to Kuwait for the 1990 invasion. Meanwhile America began testing a mobile war headquarters in the Gulf amid preparations for an attack on Iraq. Senior British officers are among the military planners. They are working inside a command, control, and communications centre made by the Raytheon Corporation and flown from the US to Qatar. War games involving hundreds of tanks, planes, and thousands of troops also started. General Tommy Franks Tommy Ray Franks (born June 17, 1945 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma) is a retired General in the United States Army, previously serving as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States Armed Forces operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. , commander of US forces in the region flew in from his Florida base for the tests. Officials confirmed that strikes on Iraq were among the military scenarios being practiced but denied it was a dry run for a real war. The war games called Internal Look will run for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock a day for the week. The base will become the main command centre if President Bush sends in his troops. The war games were also to test links with naval forces and other US bases in the Gulf. CAPTION(S): WEAPONS HUNT: A UN weapons inspector thoroughly checks over containers at a chemical plant near Fallujah, outside Baghdad |
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