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Al Azhar Sheikh calls for solidarity with the Iraqi people

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The supreme Imam of Al Azhar, Sheikh Mohammed Sayed Tantawi stressed in a symposium held by the Egyptian - Kuwaiti friendship association the importance of backing up the Iraqi people. At the same time he pointed to solidarity with Kuwait, which was attacked and occupied by Iraqi troops in 1990, starting a crisis that affected the whole Arab region.

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