DOHA (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Islamic nations meeting in Qatar on Wednesday will voice concern that U.S.-led military strikes against Afghanistan could extend to other Muslim countries, senior delegates said on Tuesday.
But the delegates at the meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) said the group representing the world's 1.2 billion Muslims was unlikely to condemn the U.S.-led military offensive on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban.
Arab ministers who met on the eve of the OIC emergency talks voiced fears that some Muslim countries might be the next targets after U.S. President George Bush said his military campaign against terrorism would not end in Afghanistan.
Delegates said the OIC meeting was expected to discuss sending a team of senior Muslim officials to Washington to dissuade the U.S. administration from extending its military campaign.
Delegates said the 56-member OIC was not concerned about the fate of the Taliban, whose extremist ideology has won it little sympathy among Islamic governments.
Arab League Secretary General, Amr Moussa, said the Arab ministers believed there was a ``need to protect civilians and to limit the strikes to what is seen as terrorist bases.'' (Read photo caption below)
Bush's warning that his campaign is not only directed at Afghanistan has sparked fears that arch foes such as Iraq and Sudan could be hit.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri predicted his country could be next.
PHOTO CAPTION:
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, left, speaks with Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah al-Khatib, right, on their way to attend a meeting of foreign ministers of the 22-member Arab League in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2001. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
- Oct 09 4:32 PM ET