Iraq-Saudi Arabia Tensions 

- Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Entire Islamic world, guided by anti-Islamic visions, is under trap and undergoing an illusionary phase of existance. Some rich Muslim nations think material wealth is all about Islam, while weak ones, like Pakistan,  consider western ideas far better than Islamic Sharia". The media in Islamic world are overconscious about what the western world and their anti-Islamic media think about their "calibre" and so they try only to appease them by tarnishng the Islamic image as "terrorist" one. ( May Allah forgive them all!) 

US-led terror forces are occupying the Islamc nations with the support of some sections of Muslims in those countries. In spite of hectic diplomatic efforts by the USA and its allies killing Afghans, Iraqis and now Pakistanis to make the Iraqi leadership, controlled by USA, with Arab world have been unsuccessful, Iraq is still keen to enter the Arab world to pursue the American agenda. 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. 

Arab world is yet to resolve the long pending Sunni-Shia’ misunderstandings over “fundamentals” and they seem to believe that the divide is permanent and Muslims in each sect should kill Muslims belonging to other sects. But that is not the essence of Islam, for their kind notice. Nor controlling the nation’s resources by a small number of powerful ones stands for Islamic tenets. Certainly corruption, democratic polls and crime are not a part of Sharia’ at all.  Islamic world, especially the Arab nations, helping the anti-Islamc forces led by USA advancing their hidden agenda in world also goes against Islamic faith.

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, said that 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 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.