A row this afternoon, at a meeting of 57 members of the OIC, the Oranization of the Islamic Conference, began when the Kuwaiti official interrupted a speech by Izzat Ibrahim, the second-in-command of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council, with the words "shut up you dog".
Mr Ibrahim, who had been delivering a speech critical of Kuwait and the US, responded by calling the Kuwaiti representative a "monkey" and a "traitor".
"Shut up you minion, you (American) agent, you monkey. You are addressing Iraq," said Izzat Ibrahim, the second-in-command of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council.
Kuwait's Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah tried to fight back but his comments could not be heard over the fray, according to those present from the 5th Estate..
Another Kuwaiti minister then jumped up and waved a small Kuwaiti flag which had been on the desk.
The angry exchange was halted when the summit chairman, Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad Bin-Khalifah al-Thani said the discussion was not relevant to the meeting and moved on to the next speaker.
Now..the aim of the summit was to present a unified front from the Muslim world calling for war to be averted...
And we turn out in our millions.. we are an easily led folk..