Arabs Will Not Fight Iraq, PLO Aide Says
A senior Palestine Liberation Organization commander predicted Sunday that Arab troops in the U.S.-dominated multinational force in Saudi Arabia would switch sides if U.S. forces attacked Iraq.
“We are confident that the Egyptian, Syrian and Moroccans will stand alongside the Iraqi army if Iraq is attacked by the Americans because the Arab and the Muslim will stand by his Muslim Arab brother,” said Maj. Gen. Mohammed Jihad, a member of the leadership of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah group.
Jihad also said that Syrian, Egyptian and Moroccan forces are deployed in Saudi Arabia as “cannon fodder”.
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