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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran
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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16109)8/18/2007 10:14:45 AM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (2) of 22250
 
Gus > Saudi leadership in the Arab world depends on forging a non-US based regional alliance

With which states, I wonder? And why another "Arab revolt"?

Without doubt, the long-standing Sunni-Shiite rivalry is still the most significant rift in the Islamic world. And with Shiites controlling most of the oil in the region (Iran, Iraq and Saudi), the big fear the US has is that it is sitting on the wrong side of the Muslim fence. So, as I see it, the problems the US has are (1) how to get to the Shiite oil without giving Iran too much power and (2) how to get that Shiite oil without upsetting the Sunnis, and especially the Saudis?

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>>Iraq's fledgling democracy has placed power in the hands of the nation's Shiite majority and its Kurdish allies, many of whom lived as exiles in Iran and maintain strong religious, cultural and linguistic ties to it. The two groups sit atop most of Iraq's oil, and both seek a decentralized government that would give them maximum control of it.

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In Saudi Arabia, the Shiite minority is concentrated in the east, the same turf that covers the kingdom's vast oil reserves. For Saudi Shiites, the war in Iraq has helped deliver increased political participation and unprecedented religious freedoms. For the first time, Shiites have been permitted to openly celebrate the Shiite holiday of Ashura with traditional processions. <<
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