With Terror forces controlling,  Iraq's ties with Arabs strained

In spite of hectic diplomatic efforts by the USA and its allies killing Afghans, Iraqis and now Pakistanis, to make the Iraqi ties with Arab world have been unsuccessful. Iraqi leaders have made all out efforts to come closer to Saudi Arabia but spurned by Riyadh. Saudi Arabia sees itself as the leader of Sunni Islam and is deeply suspicious of Iraq's Shi'ite-led government and Maliki's Dawa party, which enjoys links to Iran which busy developing nuclear facility that could also produce nukes. .

Iraq's relations with Syria, Iran and some smaller Gulf states have improved since the 2003 U.S.-led killing of Saddam Hussein, but ties with Saudi Arabia have remained tepid. Saudi Arabia sees itself as the leader of Sunni Islam and is deeply suspicious of Iraq's Shi'ite-led government and Maliki's Dawa party, which enjoys links to Iran. Maliki has in the past year played down his Shi'ite Islamist roots, cracking down on Shi'ite militants in Baghdad and south Iraq, forging ties with Sunni Arabs in parliament and abandoning an overtly sectarian stance in his provincial election campaign.

Saudi officials say the security situation in Iraq has been the main impediment to reciprocating Iraqi moves toward resuming full diplomatic ties, broken after Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Riyadh sees the current Iraqi leadership as being under the influence of its arch-foe Iran. Iraq reopened its embassy in Riyadh in February 2007 but a few weeks later Saudi King Abdullah told an Arab summit in Riyadh that Iraq was under foreign occupation, an apparent reference to the U.S.-led military coalition. Last month, Riyadh accepted the appointment of Iraq's first ambassador to the kingdom since 1991.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on May 28 Iraq's efforts to build diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia had not been reciprocated and more would be "useless" without a change of heart from Riyadh. Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz, who is also second deputy prime minister, has rejected Iraqi claims that the kingdom was adopting "negative positions" on repairing diplomatic ties and urged Baghdad to improve border security. "The kingdom does what is in the best interest of Iraq and its people and the return of Iraq to its unity and sovereignty," he added. Maliki said they succeeded in opening ourselves to many countries, but Saudi has negative positions. Prince Nayef urged Iraq to improve border security to prevent the infiltration of Iraqis into Saudi Arabia.

After annexing the sovereign nations like Iraq and Afghanistan, the occupation forces have made the nations totally inefficient and awfully corrupt as part of regime change and making the countries “democratic’. Corruption is rampant at every level and foreign forces are busy shifting the resources from both Afghanistan and Iraq to their own “democratic” nations. Iraq's former trade minister Abdul Falah Sudani has been arrested at Baghdad airport on corruption charges as he was trying to leave the country. Sabah Saedi, head of Iraq's anti-corruption watchdog, the Commission on Public Integrity, told reporters Mr Sudani had been aboard a flight heading to Dubai when the plane was ordered to bring him back. Sudani resigned as minister earlier this month amid claims officials in his department had embezzled large sums. He denies wrongdoing.

Investigators had already arrested one of his brothers. Sabah Mohammed Sudani was held on suspicion of corruption at a checkpoint in the south of the country on 9 May. Earlier this week, the Commission on Public Integrity said arrest warrants had been issued for some 1,000 allegedly corrupt officials. Although corruption has emerged a growing phenomenon in the Islamic world, including Arab nations, foreign invaders have deliberately allowed corruption to keep their ‘subjects’ in good humors.

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Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

Independent Researcher in World Affairs,

The only Indian to have gone through entire India, a fraud and terror nation,
South Asia.