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Friday, September 3, 1999 | return to: international
Jewish group troubled by pope’s Iraq trip
by LONDON (JTA) -- The World Jewish Congress finds it "deeply troubling" that the pope plans to meet Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Pope John Paul II will visit Iraq for three days starting Dec. 2, in a trip that will include a helicopter visit to the town of
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"There are questions as to the propriety of that," Steinberg said. But that is a "different dimension than his meeting with Saddam Hussein, in defiance of U.N. sanctions.
The pope has emphasized that the trip to Iraq is part of a millennial personal pilgrimage to biblical sites and that it will have no political significance beyond a message of peace.
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