"ملف 53/83‎ I (D 99)‎ التهريب بين الكويت والعراق" [و‎‎٩‎٠] (٧١٦/١٩٤)

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if they thought such was a necessity. And again it was
and not his to post a guardship outside the shatt-al-Arab
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'taos gfrf surely up to Iraq to place a string of Customs posts along the
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^ aa ^ail ; At present a clear 80 miles of frontier was entirely innocent
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Kuwait-Iraq frontier if she thought smuggling going on^
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of anything at all in the shape of customs posts or patrol-
sdt £1% ling parties.
8« My ovm view, as I have had occasion to remark in
another despatch, and I know His ICxcellency believes this
to he the case also, is that Iraq is making use of this
newly "dug up ?t smuggling "cry" to bring political pressure
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; - 3 5 ton,? his p a te garden property on the Shatt-al-Arab. In other words
2 v'it is a means to an end and part of the carefully laid plan
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to bring Kuwait to her knees and force her into the Iraq
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jqr al/ 9* , The Turks did exactly the same thing in the old
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v: 0 Bin Saud has been making use of the weapon for the last q©
^ 10 years, but where he adopted openly hostile methods and
tried to strangle Kuwait by a direct blockade, Iraq now uses
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^ ^ " the more subtle methods of the Turks.
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10. The Shaikh, who has had bitter experience of the
Turks as a youngjman, recognizes every move of the game as
played by the present Iraq Government officials. Unfortunate
-ly there are few Englishmen in Iraq or the G-ulf to-day, who
^ rl r worked with the Turks, and so can appreciate the Shaikh's
view point.
11. So long as Kuwait depends for hC*^existence on
trade with the great Bedouin tribes of the interior of Arabia
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so long is she bound to encourage,by every means m her V
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power, these tribes, to send in their caravans and make
their purchases in Kuwait. It is life to her.
12, Bin Saud has tried in the last 9 years to prevent
anything/