p_p_man
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Don't you just love those Arab insults?
From today's Times:
"The extraordinary session of the Islamic Summit Conference looked, at first, as if it might be the most bland of the past week’s three Arab/Muslim summits when just half a dozen nations bothered to send heads of state.
But then Izzat Ibrahim, vice-chairman of Iraq’s Revolutionary Council and No 3 in President Saddam Hussein’s hierarchy, tore into the Kuwaitis with a ten-minute tirade, broadcast live, accusing them of conspiring with the forces of imperialism and Zionism.
A Kuwaiti Foreign Minister tried to interrupt, prompting Mr Ibrahim to shout: “Sit down, you minion, you agent. Shut up you monkey.” There were gasps as some delegates thought that Mr Ibrahim had not said qird (monkey) but kelb (dog — a far graver insult). But he was not finished yet.
“A curse on your moustache,” Mr Ibrahim concluded, challenging the manly honour of the Kuwaitis. By now Sheikh Ahmed Fahd al-Ahmed, the Kuwaiti Information Minister, had jumped up and begun to wave his national flag."
I like the guy waving the Kuwaiti flag...
If he'd been British he would have sung Rule Britannia whilst waving the Union Jack...
ppman
From today's Times:
"The extraordinary session of the Islamic Summit Conference looked, at first, as if it might be the most bland of the past week’s three Arab/Muslim summits when just half a dozen nations bothered to send heads of state.
But then Izzat Ibrahim, vice-chairman of Iraq’s Revolutionary Council and No 3 in President Saddam Hussein’s hierarchy, tore into the Kuwaitis with a ten-minute tirade, broadcast live, accusing them of conspiring with the forces of imperialism and Zionism.
A Kuwaiti Foreign Minister tried to interrupt, prompting Mr Ibrahim to shout: “Sit down, you minion, you agent. Shut up you monkey.” There were gasps as some delegates thought that Mr Ibrahim had not said qird (monkey) but kelb (dog — a far graver insult). But he was not finished yet.
“A curse on your moustache,” Mr Ibrahim concluded, challenging the manly honour of the Kuwaitis. By now Sheikh Ahmed Fahd al-Ahmed, the Kuwaiti Information Minister, had jumped up and begun to wave his national flag."
I like the guy waving the Kuwaiti flag...
If he'd been British he would have sung Rule Britannia whilst waving the Union Jack...
ppman
