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War against terrorism: Arab Summit: No Guilt, No Responsibility at this Perverse Gathering of Islamic Kings and Dictators
Thursday, October 11, 2001
(2:14 AM GMT+1)
By Robert Fisk / Middle East Correspondent, Independent Digital

Like the Americans, the Arabs didn't want to look for causes.

Listening to the speeches of the Muslim leaders at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference emergency summit on Wednesday, it was possible to believe that Osama bin Laden represented Arabs more faithfully than their tin-pot dictators and kings.

Please give us more evidence about 11 September, asked the Emir of Qatar. Please don't forget the Palestinians, pleaded Yasser Arafat. Islam is innocent, insisted the Moroccan Foreign Minister.

Everyone – but everyone – wished to condemn the 11 September atrocities in the United States. No one – absolutely no one – wanted to explain how 19 Arabs decided to fly planeloads of innocent people into buildings full of civilians.
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