Friday, July 08, 2005

Diplomat's Case Opens Iraq, Egypt Rift

"CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Iraq's top terrorist may have achieved something more significant than just scaring away Arab diplomats when he ordered the abduction of Egypt's top envoy to Baghdad - and then claimed to have killed him.

The crisis may have sown the seeds of distrust between Iraq's Shiite-led government and Egypt - an Arab powerhouse whose goodwill Iraq needs.

It also underlined the unease with which the Arab world has watched political developments in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, who like most Arabs is Sunni.

Arab states have reluctantly lent their support to Iraq's postwar rulers, while casting doubt on their independence and expressing worry at the new dominance of the Shiite majority and the Kurds, who combined form 80 percent of Iraq's estimated 26 million people."
My Way
I still think it's Iran...

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