Saddam Warns Syria About Creating an Alliance with Iran
London-based Asharq al-Awsat, a pro-Saudi independent paper, is issued daily.
The head of Saddam Hussein's defence team, Khalil al-Dulaimi, said on July 18 that Saddam has warned the Syrian leadership not to enter a coalition with Iran. The former Iraqi president also blamed Iran for the current violence in the Middle East. Dulaimi said that he and another lawyer met with Saddam in his prison in Baghdad on July 18 for three hours. He quoted Saddam as saying, "The Syrian leadership should not deepen its coalition with Iran, because Iranian has bad intentions toward all Arabs and they hope to do away with them."