Iraq’s deputy prime minister refused to answer a question by an Israeli journalist at a news conference following his audience with Pope John Paul II last Friday. Menachem Gantz, Rome correspondent for Ma’ariv, asked Tariq Aziz whether Baghdad might attack Israel should the U.S. go to war against Iraq.
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