New Saddam Hussein's message to Arab League and the day's wrap

(27 Mar 2001)

Amman
1. Wide of summit
2. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Libyan leader Colonel Moamar Gadhafi
3. Close up Mubarak
4. Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat listening to speech
5. Pan of conference delegates
6. Pull out from logo to King Abdullah II of Jordan
7. Wide of conference hall with delegates
8. Bashar al-Assad with delegation sitting at table
9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Bashar al- Assad, President of Syria
"We speak about the head of government being racist. And we speak of a government being racist and we say the security and army are racist. When it comes to Israel we keep silent. Where is the logic here? All this is due to the people in the street in Israel. Therefore this is a racist society. More racist than the Nazis. Everybody speaks of this in closed sessions. Every Arab citizen says this and we represent the Arab people so it is natural that we reflect the feeling of our people."
10. King Abdullah of Jordan listening to Assad (++OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++)
11. Wide of conference (++OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++)
12. Arafat listening to Assad (++OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++)
13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Izzat Ibrahim, Deputy Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Council
"By God, we will bring them with an army whose end will be in Baghdad and its forefront will be making the criminal Zionist invaders and occupier's blood run cold. If you want that and decide it, you will have an army of men keen on winning martyrdom just as the Zionists are keen to live."
14. Long shot of conference hall with delegates

Ghor, Jordan Valley
15. Libyan Leader Moamar Gadhafi drinking coffee on street
16. Gadhafi inspecting banana trees
17. Gadhafi walking with umbrella and greeting children
18. Various of Gadhafi talking to people in street
19. Gadhafi with football and laughing with people
20. Gadhafi waving a triumphant fist in air
21. Gadhafi greeting and walking with young girl

STORYLINE:
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad lashed out at the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon's supporters on Tuesday saying they were "more racist than the Nazi's".

Assad's made the remarks during the first day of a two day summit for Arab leaders aimed at supporting Palestinians in their six-month-old uprising against Israeli occupation and forging a common policy on Iraq's dispute with Kuwait.

The gathering, held in Amman, is the first ordinary Arab summit since the 1990-1991 Gulf crisis, and attracted 14 heads of state, as well as the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

Delegates had the thorny task of trying to forge a unified stance on Iraq's international isolation and reach agreement on how to deal with the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Jordan's King Abdullah II, who takes over the one-year rotating presidency of the Arab summit with this meeting, focused on the unity theme in his opening remarks as did the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Arafat said the Palestinian issue could only be solved by Aran nations, working together.

Assad also said that Sharon is a man who hates Arabs and Muslims and it was impossible for Arabs to think that a country who voted Sharon into power wants peace.

He dismissed the idea that Sharon - who was elected Prime Minister is February - should be given time to show his peaceful intentions.

Sharon is widely hated in the Arab world for his role as architect of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.

An Israeli inquiry found him indirectly to blame for the slaughter by Israeli-backed Lebanese militiamen of hundreds of unarmed Palestinian refugees in two Beirut camps.







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