CAIRO, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, number two in the topped Saddam Hussein regime, has called on the upcoming Arab summit meeting due in Khartoum Tuesday to boycott the current Iraqi government, the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television reported with an audio tape.

    The audio tape purportedly from Ibrahim urged that the Arab world "should take necessary decisions to support the Iraqi people and their brave national resistance and its jihad until Iraq is freed."

    It, meanwhile, called on the coming Khartoum summit to recognize the Iraqi resistance as the sole legitimate representative of the Iraqi people and "boycott the (current Iraqi) regime of agents and traitors".

    Ibrahim, the most senior member of Saddam's deposed government at large, has allegedly played a major role in organizing the ongoing bloody insurgency in Iraq.

    Though it is not clear when the tape was recorded, it may be a proof that Ibrahim is still alive if the tape is authenticated. Enditem