Arab League rejects US Senate plan to divide Iraq on ethnic lines
CAIRO (Thomson Financial) - The Arab League today firmly rejected a US plan to divide Iraq on ethnic and religious lines, instead lambasting Washington for destroying Iraq and turning it into the main base for Al-Qaeda.
The declaration came after the US Senate yesterday passed a non-binding resolution on a Bosnia-style plan to divide Iraq that has been touted as a way out of the sectarian strife rising steadily since the 2003 US-led invasion.
Arab nations should ’stand by the Iraqi people to help position them against this plan which is against Arab interests,’ the League’s pointman for Iraq, Ali al-Garush told journalists.
‘The truth about what America has done is that its weapons have caused massive destruction of Iraq, that it has drawn Al-Qaeda to Iraq and that it has transformed Iraq into the main base for Al-Qaeda,’ Garush said.
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Arab League rejects US Senate plan to divide Iraq on ethnic lines
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