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Sunday, January 21 10:53 PM SGT
Iraqis call for "revenge" at funeral of six killed in US-British air raid
SAMAWA, Iraq, Jan 21 (AFP) - Cries of "revenge" shot out on Sunday as
thousands of Iraqis took part in the funeral of six civilians killed the
previous day in a US-British air strike.
"Revenge, revenge," the crowd cried out as they accompanied the coffins
draped in the Iraqi colours at the funeral in Samawa, the capital of the
southern Muthanna province, an AFP journalist reported.
Witnesses said the six were killed in Saturday's raid on Salman, a village
in
the western desert around 120 kilometres (75 miles) from Baghdad and 80
kilometres (50 miles) from the Saudi border.
They said missiles hit a cattle feed depot run by the agriculture ministry
and a nearby house, killing six and wounding three others, all of them
ministry employees and family members.
A nearby veterinary station used by farmers in the village of around 2,000
inhabitants was also hit, according to witnesses.
In Baghdad, a military spokesman said western aircraft had "bombed zones in
the province of Muthanna," but Iraqi anti-air defences responded and hit
"one
of the enemy planes."
Salman lies on the flight path of US and British warplanes coming from Saudi
Arabia to patrol the skies over southern Iraq, local resident Kamal Khattab
Attiya told AFP.
Iyad Ali Hamza, brother of one of the victims, 25-year-old Ali, urged "the
Arabs, especially the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, to stop helping
the
Americans and British bomb Iraq."
Also at the funeral, Muthanna's governor Iyad Khalil Zaki said both Saudi
Arabia and Kuwait, which also provides an air base for the allied flights,
were "responsible for this crime."
"The greater the number of anti-Iraqi strikes, the greater our determination
to resist," he told the mourners.
Baghdad does not recognise "no-fly" zones enforced by the United States and
Britain over both southern and northern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991
Gulf War over Kuwait.
Clashes between the western planes and Iraqi artillery gunners have broken
out on an almost daily basis over the past two years, resulting in the
deaths
of 323 Iraqis and more than 950 wounded, according to Baghdad.
Iraq on Sunday implicitly warned Kuwait it could withdraw recognition of the
emirate's territorial integrity over its support for the air strikes.
"If (UN) Security Council resolutions have to be implemented, the governors
of Kuwait must meet their commitments," said the ruling Baath party's
mouthpiece, Ath-Thawra.
"Otherwise, Iraq reserves the right to go back on its own (commitments),
especially the ones which are unjust and deny the historic rights" of Iraq,
the newspaper said.
A US-led coalition evicted Iraqi occupation forces from Kuwait in the Gulf
War. Three years later, Iraq officially recognised the state of Kuwait and
its UN-demarcated borders.
But MP Uday Saddam Hussein, elder son of the Iraqi president, called last
week for parliament "to prepare a map of the whole of Iraq, including Kuwait
City, as an integral part of Greater Iraq."
Ath-Thawra said UN resolutions "stipulate the respect by other countries of
the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of Iraq."
But Kuwait was "provoking Iraq" with its backing for the US and British
patrols, it said.
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