Should they go to war without security council resolution
authorization,Kofi Annan would have little choice but to expel those so
blatantly breaking the UN charter.Then there's the blowback...
Allies warned to brace for violent Islamic backlash
By Mark Baker, Herald Correspondent in Amman
March 13 2003
Jordan's most powerful Islamic opposition group has warned Australia and
other countries backing a United States-led attack on Iraq that they face
a violent backlash from across the Arab world.
The Islamic Action Front leader, Sheik Hamza Mansur, said Islamic groups
throughout the Middle East would take up arms to defend Iraq, and the
citizens of those countries which joined the attack were potential
targets.
"This aggression will deepen the enmity and hatred of the sons of
our [Arab] nation for your countries and governments," he said in a
message to the leaders of Australia, Britain, Spain, Italy and Greece.
"It will threaten relations between our populations and the
countries which support this unjust war that threatens stability and
peace in the region and the world. That is why we call on you to refrain
from backing this war or participating in it."
The warning comes amid mounting concerns within the Jordanian Government
of violent domestic unrest once the war begins. Jordan, which is home to
a large population of Palestinian and Iraqi exiles, is also bracing for a
possible influx of more than a million Iraqi refugees once the fighting
begins.
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