Saudi will intervene in Iraq if U.S. withdraws: aide

Saudi will intervene in Iraq if U.S. withdraws: aide - washingtonpost.com

Wednesday, November 29, 2006; 10:50 AM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Using money, weapons or its oil power, Saudi Arabia will intervene to prevent Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias from massacring Iraqi Sunni Muslims once the United States begins pulling out of Iraq, a security adviser to the Saudi government said on Wednesday.



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Obaid listed three options being considered by the Saudi
government:

- providing "Sunni military leaders (primarily ex-Baathist
members of the former Iraqi officer corps, who make up the
backbone of the insurgency) with the same types of assistance,"
including funding and arms.

- establishing new Sunni brigades to combat the
Iranian-backed militias.

- or the Saudi king "may decide to strangle Iranian funding
of the militias through oil policy. If Saudi Arabia boosted
production and cut the price of oil in half ... it would be
devastating to Iran ... The result would be to limit Tehran's
ability to continue funneling hundreds of millions each year to
Shi'ite militias in Iraq and elsewhere."