"ملف X/٣ الاضطرابات والغارات قرب البصرة وفي المنطقة الداخلية للكويت" [و‎‎٩‎١] (٣٠٣/١٨١)

urM come to my non Jaber, whom ho informed of the statement of
Saadoon. iie iJaber) thanked him, and he also rec ived a letter
from Saadoon containing expresBions of friendship and kind regards
ii cay after some one came to my son Jaber from tribesmen who were
at a distance of 8 hours' journey, informing him that they were
attacked by j aadcon and plundered, un loariinr this oaher told
T^ed Khalaf 'Mow in this, were t^ese meosegeB from Sas.doon a
trek by which we were duped through you ? '^e will have to go
to him and recover the loot from him” f-yed khalaf aosured him
that he himself would return and demand the plundered property
from him. hen Gyed Khalaf met Saadoon he (the fyed) told him
that he (kaadoon) acted very badly and that he (Saadoon) had both
decieved him and them, that he should now return the loot other
wise it wculd recovered forcibly. He replied • It does not
matter, the plundered persons should come to me and 1 will return
then (their property)”. y son Jaber sent the plundered persons
ari they received something which is not worth mentioning in
comparison to what had bean robbed. Friendly correspondence con
tinued between me and Saadoon for the restoration of our plundered
property which wxsxxtjEkxkkBK remained with him and the banish-
the
rent cf / aaecfe or the return of the plundered property which was
wit‘ them, baadcon was inspired with the baseness which is a
characteristic of his and we were waiting for the Saeeds to sepa
rate from baadoon; otherwise as regards Saadoon and all Snadoon's
trib>sm°n we shall, God willing, not agree that the lea«t thing
should he done by us against them and we will not oppose them
purposely at present and in future, by son Jaher and Abdul Aziz
el-Saood learnt that on his return Saadoon was plundered by the
Ibn Hazzall and his tribesmen of Anezah when he attacked them
palace
ani that he returned and wont to his ttiUK at Abughar and that
U e s as ads separated from him. They, Jaber and Abdul Aslx f.aood,
availed Lhemselven o^ this opportunity and when they reached near
the Arabs ^v-ny ’.'Are not at daybreak by their own spies *”ho in-
T c i: O'! them thao the / rabs were J \ouin herdsmen and
that there was a tent with them, which,as they had understood,
belonged