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06.Apr.2011
Yanks Prepared To Let Saudis ‘Find Their Own Path’… Into Bahrain?

Aggregated | By W.I.B. Syndication

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Pentagon officials said Mr. Gates’s talks [with Saudi King Abdullah] would focus on a recent $60 billion deal to sell arms to Saudi Arabia and the threat of Iran in the region, a major concern for the Saudis. The American officials skirted questions on whether Mr. Gates would criticize the king for sending troops into Bahrain last month to help crush a Shiite-led rebellion there.

“The king has fashioned himself as a reformer in the Saudi system,” said a senior defense official traveling with Mr. Gates, who under Pentagon ground rules refused to be named. “They’re going to have to find their own path.”

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