Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri laughs before the start of an Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo, March 24, 2003. Sabri lashed out at its neighbor and fellow Arab state Kuwait, accusing it of 'cowardice' and cooperating with the enemy by all
Iraq's foreign minister has declared that "the teachings of Islam," and not the Geneva Convention, will be the nation's guidelines in the treatment of coalition POWs.
"First of all, we are committed to the teachings of Islam. We are faithful Muslims. We take care of our prisoners of war in accordance with our teachings of Islam," Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told a BBC radio program.
Sabri is in Egypt on a diplomatic trip aimed at rallying Arab governments against the U.S. and British policies of "colonialism, neo-colonialism and war," reports newssite icWales.
"We are the people who created law when the grandfathers of Mr. Blair and Mr. Bush were living like animals in the caves. Iraqis created the law and were dealing with physics, arithmetic, literature and music," Sabri told the radio program.
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