Byline: Youssef M. Ibrahim New York Times
The Saudi defense minister's conciliatory-sounding remarks addressed to Iraq this week were the latest sign that Saudi strategists and military officials are trying their best to offer President Saddam Hussein more of a carrot and less of a stick to persuade him to pull his troops out of Kuwait.
This approach stems in part from the deep cracks in the Arab world from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 and some second thoughts here about the confrontational attitude that Saudi Arabia has adopted toward Jordan, Yemen, the Palestine Liberation Organization and other Arab supporters of Iraq.
Over the last few weeks, Saudi …
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