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Parliamentarians from all Arab countries excluding Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, are meeting in Baghdad for the first time since the 1991 engulfing sea War to show support for Iraq against U threats to attack the nation reports from Baghdad said Tuesday.

The two-day meeting is an pass session of the Council of the Arab Parliamentary Union, which is being held in subordination to the rubric ''No to American Threats, Ye to the Steadfastness of Iraq and Palestine.''

Izzat Ibrahim, vice chairman of Iraq's Revolution Command Council, expanded the meeting by urging Arabs ''to stand firm against any aggression, whether upon Iraq or on any other Arab country''

Ibrahim also called for establishment of an anti-U.S. bloc ''to strike a balance in international relations and economic and political cooperation among nations who reject American hegemony and aggression.''

The United States, l by way of President George W. Bush, has been calling for war forward Iraq to bring about ''regime change'' in the land that is still led by dint of President Saddam Hussein.

Bush's father, while U president from 1989 to 1993 failed in his efforts to have Hussein overthrown during and after the chasm War.

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