Saddam Hussein looks forward to visiting Egypt
Egypt-Iraq, Politics, 10/12/2000

The Iraqi President Saddam Hussein addressed a message to an Egyptian public delegation who visited Baghdad yesterday on board of an Egyptian airplane in which he assured that "he is eager to see Egypt and looking forward to visit it to enjoy it."

The message was conveyed deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz who met the delegation yesterday in the al- Rasheed hotel when the meeting turned to a public celebration during which national songs were performed amid the Iraqi official warm welcome.

The delegation members carried a sign on which was written "the airplane of the martyr Mohammed El-Dorra toward which hostile feelings for the U.S.A and Israel got mixed with the welcome ceremonies for receiving the Egypt airplane which landed at Saddam international airport yesterday. Mohammed El-Dorra is the Palestinian child shot in cold blood by the Israeli forces.

The Egyptian airplane which flew without UN permission into Iraq comprised an elite of the public personalities who represented most sectors of the Egyptian society.

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