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Iraq Says It Is World's Top Terror Victim Tue Feb 19 2002 20:47:14 ET UNITED NATIONS, February 19, 2002 (Xinhua) -- Iraq told the U.N. Security Council Tuesday that it was the world's "foremost victim of terrorism" as a target of terrorist acts openly financed by the United States. In a letter to the council's counter-terrorism committee, set up after September 11 attacks on the United States, Baghdad accused Washington of openly spending tens of millions of dollars "on troops of mercenaries to carry out terrorist operations against Iraq." "Iraq is the foremost victim of terrorism," the letter said. The U.S.-sponsored actions constituted "state terrorism" as they were funded under the "Iraq Liberation Act," approved by the U.S. Congress several years ago, it argued. U.S. President George W. Bush last month accused Baghdad, along with Iran and North Korea, of making up an "axis of evil" bent on backing international terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction. Bush has been conducting a review of U.S. policy on Iraq, and has vowed to act against it if Baghdad threatened the United States, although administration officials have said there were no current plans to launch a military attack. Under the Iraq Liberation Act, the Bush administration has agreed to provide about 800,000 U.S. dollars a month in February, March and April to the opposition Iraqi National Council (INC), which hopes to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, reports said. Ahmed Chalabi, a member of the INC leadership, said three weeks ago that the time had come for U.S. forces to overthrow Saddam as they overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Iraqi letter to the Security Council committee said nations including the United States had financed, armed and trained " terrorists" who slipped across its borders to carry out kidnappings and other "terrorist acts." |
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