Iraqi FM is safe: Haider

Published April 15, 2003

VIENNA, April 14: Naji Sabri, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s high-profile foreign minister, may have disappeared from public view but he is not dead, extreme-right Austrian politician Joerg Haider said on Monday.

“He is in safety,” the former leader of the extreme-right Freedom Party told a radio netwprk.

“He has good connections the world over. We don’t need to worry about him,” he said, adding Sabri was not in Carinthia, the Austrian region of which he is governor.—AFP

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