SAUDI ARABIA: IRAQI PILGRIMS PERFOMING THE ANNUAL MUSLIM PILGRIMAGE TO SAUDI ARABIA HAVE SAID THEY FEAR GOD AND NOT THE UNITED STATES

Record ID: 189731

  • Title: SAUDI ARABIA: IRAQI PILGRIMS PERFOMING THE ANNUAL MUSLIM PILGRIMAGE TO SAUDI ARABIA HAVE SAID THEY FEAR GOD AND NOT THE UNITED STATES
  • Date: 19th February 2002
  • Summary: MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA (FEBRUARY 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. LAS EXTERIOR OF HEADQUARTERS OF IRAQI PILGRIMS 0.05 2. SV IRAQI FLAG ON BUILDING 0.10 3. LV PILGRIMS IN FRONT OF BUILDING 0.15 3. SV PILGRIMS ENTERING BUILDING 0.20 4. SV WOMEN PILGRIMS OUTSIDE BUILDING 0.27 5. SV IRAQI PILGRIMS SELLING THINGS THEY BROUGHT FROM IRAQ 0.37 6. SV PICTURE OF IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN ON WALL 0.40 7. MCU (Arabic) IRAQI PILGRIM DAOUD WAJAH SAYING: "We are not afraid of America, or of anyone else, God is above everyone. God willing, we will be victorious." 0.50 8. CU IRAQI FLAG 0.55 9. SV IRAQI WOMEN LOOKING FROM WINDOW 1.00 10. PAN PILGRIMS STANDING IN FRONT OF BUILDING 1.09 11. MCU (Arabic) IRAQI PILGRIM JUMAH IBRAHIM SAYING: "I pray for the lifting of sanctions. Iraq is fine." 1.15 12. MCU IRAQI OLD MEN NEAR HEADQUARTERS 1.19 13. CU TWO OLD IRAQI MEN (2 SHOTS) 1.25 14. LAS IRAQI PILGRIMS HEADQUARTERS 1.34 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th March 2002 12:00
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  • Location: MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA
  • Country: Saudi Arabia
  • Reuters ID: LVA8Y89PW3WEW7UFXJ550VOFV9XD
  • Story Text: Iraqi pilgrims performing the annual Muslim pilgrimage
    to Saudi Arabia have said they fear God and not the United
    States, despite Washington's threats to include Baghdad in its
    war against terrorism.



    Echoing the defiance of President Saddam Hussein back
    home, Iraqi pilgrims dismissed U.S. threats to attack and
    called for the lifting of the 11-year U.N. embargo against
    Iraq.

    "We are not afraid of America, or of anyone else," Daoud
    Wajah, 44, told Reuters at the headquarters of the Iraqi
    pilgrims on Tuesday (February 19) in the holy city of Mecca.

    "God is above everyone. God willing, we will be
    victorious," he said as a large Iraqi flag fluttered on the
    building. A black and white picture of Saddam at the entrance
    of the complex stared down on the pilgrims.

    "I pray for the lifting of sanctions. Iraq is fine," said
    Jumah Ibrahim, a 43-year-old farmer from the northern town of
    Kirkuk.

    U.S. President George W. Bush last month accused Baghdad,
    along with Iran and North Korea, of making up an "axis of
    evil" bent on backing international terrorism and developing
    weapons of mass destruction.

    Bush has been conducting a review of U.S. policy on Iraq,
    and has vowed to act against it if Baghdad threatens the
    United States, although administration officials have said
    there are no current plans to launch a military attack.


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