Prince Nayef Says Saudis Still Waiting for Iraqi Security Team

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PRINCE NAYEF SAYS SAUDIS STILL WAITING FOR IRAQI SECURITY TEAM

By Agence France Presse (AFP)

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's interior minister said Iraq had failed to send a security team as agreed in July to discuss security cooperation between the two neighbors. "When we met during the meeting of interior ministers of countries neighboring Iraq in Istanbul , I and the Iraqi interior minister ... agreed on security cooperation and the creation of a security team that would come from and meet with security officials in the kingdom," Prince Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz said.



"No one has come yet and we haven't been contacted" by the Iraqis on the issue, said Nayef, whose remarks were made in the Red Sea city of Jeddah late Saturday and carried by the official SPA news agency Sunday.



Baghdad has long complained of its neighbors tolerating Islamist militants infiltrating Iraq to join the insurgency against Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led coalition.



Many Saudis are believed to enter Iraq to join Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, despite attempts by Saudi security forces to stop the infiltrations.



Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr last week hailed the "wise" policies of Saudi Arabia, days after calling the kingdom's foreign minister "a bedouin on a camel" for expressing concern at purported Iranian meddling in Iraq.

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