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Saudi Arabia warns if US leaves Iraq it will arm Sunnis

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The Irish Times - Dec 14, 2006
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2006/1214/1165222029927.html

Saudi Arabia warns if US leaves Iraq it will arm Sunnis

by Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington

IRAQ: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia warned the US vice-president, Dick
Cheney, that the kingdom would provide money and arms to Sunni militias
in Iraq if America withdrew its troops from the country, it emerged
yesterday.

The conversation, during a visit by Mr Cheney to Riyadh last month, was
the most serious indication to date of Saudi concerns about a possible
massacre of the minority Sunni community in Iraq in the event of a
withdrawal of US forces, as well as rising Iranian influence in Iraq,
Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories.