Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 39

26-September-2005

Political Comment (26 September 2005)

As the British used force to free two of their soldiers arrested by the Iraqi police in Basra, the Saudi foreign minister has twice warned that the situation in Iraq is moving toward disintegration and civil war.

Prince Sa'ud Sounds The Alarm

The sequence of events that led to British forces storming first a prison and then an adjacent house in Basra on 19 September in order to free two members of...