Saudi Arabia: Talks with Iraq on the border fence projectnote

Iraqi National Security Adviser Muwaffaq Al-Rubaie visited Riyadh last week. The Saudis discussed with him their project to build a security fence along their border with Iraq. The following 207-word article is published in Tactical Weekly of April 4, 2008. It tells what the Saudis want Baghdad to do to support the project and which Saudi companies they mentioned for the Iraqis to work with. While in Riyadh, Al-Rubaie met with middlemen working for a foreign defence contractor interested in the Saudi fence project. The article names the contractor and tells what the outcome was.