Wrap of the day, the Arab League Summit

(27 Mar 2001)
Amman
1. Wide of summit
2. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Libyan leader Colonel Moamar Gadhafi
3. Close up Mubarak
4. Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat listening to speech
5. Various of conference delegates
6. Pull out from logo to King Abdullah II of Jordan
7. Wide of conference hall with delegates
8. Bashar al-Assad with delegation sitting at table
9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Bashar al- Assad, President of Syria
"We speak about the head of government being racist. And we speak of a government being racist and we say the security and army are racist. When it comes to Israel we keep silent. Where is the logic here? All this is due to the people in the street in Israel. Therefore this is a racist society. More racist than the Nazis. Everybody speaks of this in closed sessions. Every Arab citizen says this and we represent the Arab people so it is natural that we reflect the feeling of our people."
10. King Abdullah of Jordan listening to Assad (++OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++)
11. Wide of conference (++OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++)
12. Arafat listening to Assad (++OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++)
13. Long shot of conference hall with delegates
Ghor, Jordan Valley
14. Libyan Leader Moamar Gadhafi drinking coffee on street
15. Gadhafi inspecting banana trees
16. Gadhafi walking with umbrella and greeting children
17. Various of Gadhafi talking to people in street
18. Gadhafi with football and laughing with people
19. Gadhafi waving a triumphant fist in air
20. Gadhafi greeting and walking with young girl
STORYLINE:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad lashed out at Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon's supporters on Tuesday saying that were "more racist than the Nazi's".
Assad's made the remarks during the first day of a two day summit for Arab leaders aimed at supporting Palestinians in their six-month-old uprising against Israeli occupation and forging a common policy on Iraq's dispute with Kuwait.
The gathering, held in Amman, is the first ordinary Arab summit since the 1990-1991 Gulf crisis, and attracted 14 heads of state, as well as Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Delegates had the thorny task of trying to forge a unified stance on Iraq's international isolation and reach agreement on how to deal with the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
Jordan's King Abdullah II, who takes over the one-year rotating presidency of the Arab summit with this meeting, focused on the unity theme in his opening remarks as did the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Arafat said the Palestinian issue could only be solved by Aran nations, working together.
Assad also said that Sharon is a man who hates Arabs and Muslims and it was impossible for Arabs to think that a country who voted Sharon into power wants peace.
He dismissed the idea that Sharon - who was elected Prime Minister is February - should be given time to show his peaceful intentions.
Sharon is widely hated in the Arab world for his role as architect of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
An Israeli inquiry found him indirectly to blame for the slaughter by Israeli-backed Lebanese militiamen of hundreds of unarmed Palestinian refugees in two Beirut camps.
In his speech, the Syrian President reiterated the policy of his late father Hafez al-Assad that Syria will not make peace with Israel until it returned the Golan Heights which was captured from Syria during the 1967 war.
Libyan Leader Moamar Gadhafi took a break from the summit Tuesday afternoon, strolling in an area near the Dead Sea under an umbrella.
He returned to the summit for the afternoon session.
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[@ShardTown]

Why did Gaddafi throw the first cup of coffee?

[@MrRedcarpet02]

I guess it wasn't made properly. A wise customer checks the goods first and demands free replacement ;)

[@ShardTown]

@@MrRedcarpet02 I think it's because in those types of makers, the coffee grounds fall through to the first cup, so it's always thrown away.

[@alexspader]

I don't really know cause I don't speak arabic, but I understand what type of coffee is that(mırra). It tastes bitter so maybe he didn't want to drink too much, or the coffee grounds fall through to the first cup like the other comment says.