NICOSIA [MENL] -- Iraq's military has launched plans to attack Israel in cooperation with the Palestinian Authority.
Iraqi Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed said Iraqi forces are training and equipping for a military campaign against the Jewish state. Ahmed said Iraqi forces will be in the forefront of an Arab war against Israel.
"The armed forces will be the cutting swords in the liberation of our territories in Palestine, including Jerusalem, usurped by the Zionists," Ahmed said in a telegram to President Saddam Hussein. "It is continuing its training and its mission is facing up to the forces of evil and oppression, represented by criminal America and its odious Zionist ally."
Ahmed, in a telegram quoted by the Iraqi News Agency, did not specify military plans or equipment being deployed for the operation. The Saddam regime has called for the mobilization of 6.5 million volunteers in the war against the Jewish state.