Reuters

CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Sunday said in a final communique that it was necessary for Arab states to deny any kind of support for military action against fellow Arab state Iraq.


"(The foreign ministers) affirm the necessity for their countries to refrain from offering any kind of assistance or facilities for any military action that leads to the threat of Iraq's security safety and territorial integrity," the final communique said.


The ministers also agreed to preserve the security, safety and territorial integrity of Iraq, as well as neighboring state Kuwait, which Iraq invaded in 1990 and occupied for several months until it was expelled by a U.S.-led coalition.


"The Arab countries reject aggression on any of them or the threat against the security and safety of any Arab country as a threat against the national security of all Arab countries," the communique said.


The communique did not specifically mention the United States, which has said time was running for Iraq to come clean on its alleged weapons of mass destruction or face U.S.-led military action. Iraq denies it has such weapons.

Here's who you're in bed with, France, et al...the backward regimes from one end of the fertile crescent to the other who should be in line to fall are finding new guts to stand up for each other. It's looking like we'll have a few extra years of suicide bombing and terrorism scares, yet. /vent