DOHA, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The world's largest Islamic body will hold an emergency meeting in Qatar next month to forge a united Muslim stand over possible U.S. military action against Afghanistan, Qatari officials said on Saturday.
They told Reuters that Qatar, which currently heads the 56-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), was awaiting attendance confirmation from member states but that preparations for the meeting were moving ahead.
One senior official said Arab ministers from the OIC, which represents the world's 1.2 billion Muslims, would meet on October 8 and a full OIC foreign ministers' meeting would follow on October 9.
The United States has begun a massive build-up for potential retaliation against Afghan-based militant Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organisation, suspected by Washington to be behind the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.:
