Jazeera interviews Lamani

Al-Jazeera interviewed Mokhtar Lamani, the former representative of the Arab League in Iraq who resigned last week protesting the absence of an Arab will to help Iraqis. On Palestinians he said: "The most important detail on this issue is that no Palestinian ever came to me while in Baghdad asking for protection in order to continue living in Iraq. In fact, all of them came to me asking for the league's help to get them out of Iraq to any Arab country. The reason for that is they [Palestinians] hold travel documents not passports. Most countries do not recognise this type of documents and require a proper passport to grant an individual a visa. We did raise the issue with Iraqi officials, they told us that everybody in Iraq is a target, not only the Palestinians."