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Gamal Abdel Nasser declared open war on King Saud last week-the man whom he has often wooed in the past, whose oil moneys have helped fuel Nasser's subversions, whose army only two years ago was nominally put under a joint command headed by an Egyptian...
...cashed at the Arab Bank branch in Damascus." Bearer, roared Nasser, was Serraj, who, as conscientious as he was vigilant, had accepted the check, then hurried to tell Nasser all about it. "We decided to nationalize it," said Nasser, and with a big grin, related how they coaxed Saud's agents into paying $5,600,000 of the promised $60 million in advance, and cashed the "money-oil money, to be used by us here for building heavy industry which will become the first pillar in our new five-year plan...
...Building." Following Nasser's blast, Serraj met the press to relate a modern Arabian Nights tale, a sort of Scheherazade with photostats. The chunky, blue-chinned colonel, who also discovered a plot last summer when his government was closing an arms deal with Soviet Russia, said that Saud had approached him through one of Saud's fathers-in-law, Syrian-born Assad Ibrahim. According to Ibrahim, said Serraj, Saud considered Nasser's union "Egyptian imperialism," and had sworn "by his father's soul that this union shall not take place." Ibrahim forthwith offered Serraj financial...
Serraj also showed a letter on Saud's royal stationery saying that after the coup "Shukri [el Kuwatly] and members of the present [Syrian] government should be detained and kept until the situation becomes normal and the republic is proclaimed. After that, they are of no value and can be disposed of." Without supporting evidence, Serraj charged that another Saudi emissary offered him another $5,600,000 to "send a plane after Nasser's plane when he leaves Damascus, and then say a Jewish, American or British plane was responsible for shooting it down." The same man, said...
Westerners were inclined to doubt the whole story. They pointed out that Saud was unlikely to use checks, that the choice of courier was improbable-Assad Ibrahim was reportedly only a simple Syrian farmer until his daughter caught the eye of one of Saud's roving agents and was installed as a favorite in the royal harem (Ibrahim's brother drives a taxicab in Damascus...