MUSLIM SUPPORT FOR SADDAM REMAINS SOFT

CAIRO [MENL] -- Despite the encouragement of Sunni clerics, Muslim supportfor the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is said to remain weak. Arab analysts and Islamic sources said the number of Muslims whoresponded to the Iraqi call for volunteers to fight coalition forces wasmuch smaller than those who flocked to Afghanistan in the early 1980s in thewar against the Soviet Union. They said about 5,000 Arabs have volunteeredto travel to Iraq over the last month and join Saddam's militias.