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Iraqi Vice President Says U.S. No. 1 Terrorist State in
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Xinhuanet 2002-01-10
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BAGHDAD, January 9 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi Vice
President Taha Yassin
Ramadan on Wednesday accused the United States
of being the
world's "No. 1 terrorist country" which has committed
terrorism
against Iraq for more than a decade, the state-run Iraq TV
reported.
"The U.S., through its continuous
aggressions against Iraq,
reveals its ugly face and becomes the Number
One terrorist country
in the world," Ramadan told a visiting Spanish
delegation which
came to show solidarity with the embargo-hit
nation.
Ramadan stressed that the U.S. has continued
"terrorism" from
1990 till now through "the cruel embargo and the
flagrant military
aggressions," the report said.
Since the 1991 Gulf War, triggered by Iraq's 1990 invasion of
Kuwait,
the U.S. has been pursuing a policy of containment which
combines
economic embargo and repeated military strikes against
Iraq.
The U.S. has designated Iraq, under sweeping
international
embargo since 1990, as one of "the state sponsors of
terrorism."
"Ramadan renewed Iraq's call for lifting the
embargo and
stopping the U.S. interference in its internal affairs as
well as
military aggressions against its sovereignty and territorial
integrity," the report said.
The U.S. administration
headed by President George W. Bush has
maintained a tough policy
toward the Iraqi regime since it took
office one year ago. Bush has
hinted that Iraq might become a U.S.
target after Afghanistan by
demanding the Iraqi regime to allow
arms inspectors back into the
country or face the consequences.
Iraq has barred arms
inspectors since the U.S.-British military
blitz in December
1998. Enditem
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