Iraqi security chiefs heading to Saudi Arabia - I wonder if they are going back?

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Iraqi security chiefs heading to Saudi Arabia
(AFP)

9 July 2007

BAGHDAD - A delegation of senior Iraqi security, defence and diplomatic officials will go to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to seek increased cooperation in dealing with terrorism, Iraq’s foreign minister said.

‘It’s a very positive step. It will help the government in its fight to combat terrorism, which is of mutual interest between Iraq and Saudi Arabia,’ Hoshyar Zebari told reporters in Baghdad on Monday.

Saudi Arabia, a power among the Sunni states of the Middle East, has been suspicious of the Shia-led government in Baghdad, fearing it is under the influence of its Shia regional rival Iran.

Some leading Saudi clerics have criticised the Iraqi government for failing to protect the Sunni minority there, and there have been unproven reports of Saudi money financing militant groups.