Reuters: Saudi denies may interfere in Iraq to back Sunnis

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Saudi denies may interfere in Iraq to back Sunnis
02 Dec 2006 13:50:17 GMT
Source: Reuters

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RIYADH, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said there was no truth in an article
by a Saudi security adviser suggesting the world's top oil exporter would back
Iraq's Muslim Sunnis in the event of a wider sectarian conflict.

Nawaf Obaid, a security adviser to the Saudi government, said on Wednesday
the kingdom would intervene with funding and weaponry to prevent Shi'ite
militias attacking Iraq's Sunnis once the United States begins pulling out
of Iraq.

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"There is no basis in truth to the article by the writer Nawaf Obaid in the
Washington Post of Nov. 29, 2006," the state Saudi Press Agency quoted an
"official source" as saying.

"The writer does not represent any official body in Saudi Arabia. What he
published only represents his personal opinion and does not in any manner
at all represent the policy or positions of the kingdom," it added on Friday.

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