Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein called for an emergency summit in Islam’s holiest city — Mecca in Saudi Arabia — to discuss what he termed Israeli aggression against the Palestinians. He asked for Arab unity and warned that the United States and Israel are using the Sept. 11 terror attacks as a pretext to destroy Arabs.
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