Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Saudi urges U.S. not to leave Iraq quickly

"Just picking and leaving is going to create a huge vacuum," said Prince Turki al-Faisal, hours after the high-level bipartisan Iraq Study Group recommended the United States should begin to withdraw forces and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to avoid chaos in Iraq. Turki said Saudi Arabia does not want Iraq to fracture along ethnic or religious lines and that the kingdom, which is dominated by Sunnis, does not seek to support the minority Iraqi Sunnis against other religious groupings there.

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