http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/25/wnidal25.xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/08/25/ixport.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=150520
also Iraq has ordered:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020824-053739-2697r
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A top Iraqi official urged Arabs Saturday to "strike American, Israeli and British interests" if the United States makes good on its threats to launch a military operation against Iraq, a report said.
The official Iraqi Ittihad weekly quoted Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan as saying the Arab people "have a role in confronting the aggressors when there is aggression."
"The American, Zionist and British governments have material and human interests everywhere in the word, and they will be considered as hostile arenas" if there is an attack against his country, he added.
Regarding the ongoing joint Jordanian-U.S. military exercises in southern Jordan, the Iraqi official said "any cooperation with the American Zionist administration aimed against Iraq can only be described as treason."
Jordan has repeatedly denied press reports its territories will be used by U.S. forces to launch military operations against Iraq, but said the joint exercises were routine and planned years in advance. Jordan has also expressed opposition to attacks against its eastern neighbor, and urged Washington against such a move.
Ramadan said his government plans on launching a wide-scale diplomatic offensive in the next few days, during which Iraqi envoys will visit Arab capitals with a message from President Saddam Hussein "to brief the brotherly presidents and kings on the real situation."
He added Baghdad was "confident that the Arab leaders fully recognize that the American threats against Iraq pose a threat to the entire Arab nation."
He said the "capabilities in the entire nation, whether in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt or Syria or anywhere else, cannot be ignorant of the evil intentions of the U.S. administration has against the Arabs and Islam."
Ramadan also welcomed some European countries' positions regarding the threats against his country