Word: izzat
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...tough talk: Saddam's envoy Izzat, above, lashed out with a typically Iraqi put-down INSULT OF THE WEEK "Curse Be Upon Your Mustache!" An Iraqi diplomat unleashes a hairy bit of invective...
IRAQ Counterattack As U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney returned home empty-handed from his support-seeking tour of the Middle East, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein sent out officials to seek backing from Arab countries in case of a possible American attack. Vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council Izzat Ibrahim went to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, while Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan and Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz were sent to other regional capitals...
...Mubarak also stressed that he believed Iraq would defuse the crisis by readmitting U.N. weapons inspectors, and pressed the point in a meeting with Iraqi Vice President Izzat Ibrahim al Douri the day after seeing Cheney...
...various heads of state loudly declared support for Palestinians fighting Israeli occupation. But Saddam's comeback was the hot topic on the sidelines. Ten years after the United Nations slapped sanctions on Iraq for invading Kuwait, the issue was not whether to lift them, but how. Saddam's envoy Izzat Ibrahim even planted a kiss on the forehead of Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, the Saudi Defense Minister who hosted Operation Desert Storm in 1991. "Iraqis love Saudi Arabia," said Ibrahim...
...even be one of them who decides that the clan's survival is more important than Saddam's. In addition, two of his longtime associates appear to have more power than other members of the ruling circle: Deputy Prime Minister Taha Yassin Ramadan and Revolutionary Command Council Deputy Chairman Izzat Ibrahim. So far, neither has seemed ambitious enough to seize power for its own sake...