Saudi Arabia: EADS, Al-Rashid and attempts to delay Iraq fence contractnote

Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef Bin Abdulaziz is still waiting for the right time to announce the awarding of a project to build a security fence along the Saudi border with Iraq. However, there are attempts to delay announcement of the contract. The following 407-word article published in Tactical Report Weekly Brief’s issue of August 8, 2008, focuses on these attempts and on the Interior Ministry’s reactions to these attempts. It also tells what Al-Rashid Trading & Contracting is doing meanwhile, and whether it will withstand such attempts. Besides, the article draws a comparison between the Iraq fence project and the Miksa border surveillance programme in terms of problems, difficulties and fluctuation of international prices.