| Iraq denies involvement in attacks on US |
Iraq has denied all involvement in the terrorist attacks on the US but has urged a "united Arab stance" against any military offensive.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said his country does not have any connection whatever to the attacks launched on American interests.
He said the US and the West "know this fact well".
In Washington, a US official said the country had received information from a foreign intelligence service that one of the hijackers aboard one of the planes that slammed into New York's World Trade Centre met an Iraqi intelligence agent earlier this year in Europe.
Iraq is one of the seven countries the US accuses of sponsoring terrorism.
With the US trying to build international support for an expected armed response to the attacks, Sabri has met Arab and non-Arab ambassadors in Baghdad, the official Iraqi News Agency said.
"He affirmed the necessity to take a united Arab stance toward the grave American moves to use the latest attacks as a pretext to launch a new aggression on this country or that," the news agency said.
Story filed: 13:49 Wednesday 19th September 2001
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