From: minhaszt@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Zafar T Minhas)
Subject: The untrustworthiness of the Saudi family
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:41:10 GMT

From:	IN%"UDEE079@OAK.CC.KCL.AC.UK"  3-JAN-1993 14:33:30.08
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Subj:	Saudi-American conspiracy, Past and Present
Assalamu Alaikum Brothers & Sisters,

The following is a reproduction of an article which appeared in Ar-Raya 
newsletter. It is published by the Islamic Daw'a Centre, P. O. Box 1251, 
N.Y. 11372 USA. I Will let the article speak for itself. I sincerly urge
everyone to read it carefully.

May Allah (SWT) lead us all to the right path of true Islam. Ameen.

Wassalm,

Abu Omar

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               Saudi-American conspiracy, Past and Present  

The US commitment to Saudi Arabia that led to the Persian Gulf War, has its
roots in secret pledges by American Presidents to protect the Saudi Monarchy
dating back to 1947, according to previously unreported documents. Washngton's
little known commitment to Saudi Arabia has proceeded in tandem with a close
security relationship with Israel, beginning with Truman's 1947 decision to
support the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine.

The 1947 pact between President Harry S. Truman and King Ibn Saud was described 
in a 1947 State department cable, classified Top Secret, from acting Secretary
of State Robert Lowett to the US Ambassador in Riyadh. Lowett described a
personal message from Truman for the King given earlier that year to his eldest
son prince Saud:"One of the basic policies of the United States in the near
east is unqualifiedly to support the territorial integrity and political
independence of Saudi Arabia."

In language that eerily forecast events of 1991, the cable found in the
National Archives, went on, "if Saudi Arabia should therefore be attacked by
another power or be under threat of attack, the US through the medium of the UN
would take energetic measures to ward off such action".

Washington's long standing commitment to Israel was spelled out by Kennedy in a
confidential 1962 conversation with Golda Meir, then Israel's Foreign Minister.
According to a memorandum of the conversation, now in the kennedy Library,
Kennedy told Meir:"The United States has a special relationship with Israel in
the Middle east, really comparable only to that to which it has with Britian
over a wide range of World Affairs." But Kennedy said:"For us to play properly
the role we are called upon to play, we can not afford the luxury of
identifying with Israel...... or certain other countries as our exclusive
friends hewing to line of close and intimate allies, for we feel that about
Israel though it is not a former ally....."

US Presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt have juggled commitments to Saudi
Arabia and Israel, which have appaerntly been on opposite sides of the bloddy
Arab-Jewish struggle. Often this meant doing favours that offended the other -
or would have- if all the favours had been offered in public. More importantly,
American foreign policy in the Middle East was intended to create and protect
Israel and safeguard American political and economic interests in the region.
It must be understood that having Israel or any other country in the region as
an ally was not a goal in itself; rather a means to access the region that the
French and the British had technically left.

Serious US interest in the Middle East began in the 1930's when Ibn Saud chose
a US oil company to explore in his country. A top executive of that company was
Jimmy Moffett, a friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1943, Moffett persuaded
Rosevelt to give economic assistance to the Saudi king, also a friend 
of Moffett. In those days, Saudi Arabia was a relatively poor country that was
exporting only a trickle of oil. Roosevelt wanted Ibn Saud to use his position
with other arab Leaders to win support for a plan to tranfer a portion  of
Palestine west of Jordan river to the Jews as a new homeland for $50 million.
In 1943, Roosevelt sent a secret emissary to Riyadh to ask the King to meet
Jewish leaders to discuss the plan. The emissary, Colonel Harold Hoskins, an
intelligence officer wrote to FDR:"Not only you as President but the American
people as a whole should realize that if the American Government decides to
support the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine....they are committing
the American people to the use of force in the area, since only by force can a
Jewish state in Palestine be established or maintained."

After the death of Roosevelt  early 1945, two months after his meeting with Ibn
Saud, president Truman pushed by political pressures and arguments, agreed on
backing the creation of Israel. That story is relatively well known, but
Truman's actions with regard to Saudi Arabia have for the first time been
disclosed in the Washington Post of Februray 9, 1992. In response to the
overture by President Truman, the King said that he wished to know how and in
what manner he might rely upon the United States. The King was worried about
neighbouring Iraq and Trans-Jordan, whose Hashemite King challenged his right
to serve as the protector of the Holy places of Islam. Truman's ambassador in
Riyadh said the King wanted to know whether the United States "Would supply the
Saudi Arabian government an army with the necessary materials" to defend its
borders " since the threat was not only involving Saudi Arabia but also vital
American interests."

In 1950, Ibn Saud asked Truman for a formal military treaty. In response,
Truman sent Assistant Secretary of State George McGhee to Saudi Arabia to
establish a military aid program that continues to this day. McGhee told the
King, "the United States... will take most immediate action at any time that
the integrity and independence of Saudi Arabia is threatened." The King,
evidently pleased, closed the meeting by saying he wished, "It to be understood
that he considered the United States and Saudi Arabia as One State."

The willingness of King Saud to help in the creation of Israel in return for
his family's protection as the rulers of Saudi Arabia is an example of the
continuing Saudi-American conspiracy against Muslims.

The Saudi Kingship has throughout time collaborated and compromised with the
kuffar against Muslims, to save their position on the seat of Kingship. It is
with this in mind that Muslims should realize they will never be able to solve
their problems while the Saudis and Americans are running their affairs. This
scenario is typical of the post colonial era. After destroying the Khilafah in
1924 and fatally injuring the backbone of the Ummah, the Kuffar divided the
Ummah through nationalism into Nation States, installed their puppets as rulers
over Muslims and made sure to suffocate the Ummah both intellectually and
politically.

Recently, it was widely reported that following the victory of Clinton in the
recent US Presidential election, King Fahd was the first foreign 'leader' to
offer his congratulations, and continued support.
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