Dear brothers,
I write to you today because of the high regard with which I hold the Kurds of Iraq and other countries. I never forget that you are the people of the great Sultan Salahuddin Al-Ayubi who led the Muslims of his day to the liberation of the holy land from the invading Crusaders.

It is with great distress that I receive news of your collaboration with US forces in the occupation and colonization of your country, Iraq. It is with even more distress that I learn of your alliance with Israel in its war against your Muslim brothers in Iraq and other part of the Muslim world. Truly, the late sultan would spit on you if he were alive today.

You justify this treachery as a way to achieve the dream of some amongst you of a Kurdish independent state. Do you not read history? Have you forgotten that the British, when they first occupied Iraq, promised you a state? When you were no longer useful to them they promptly forgot about it. Apparently, you now believe that you will have better luck with the Americans. Truly, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The Americans on the whole are a faithless lot who respect no agreements and honor no obligations that do not fit within their own interest of the moment. They do this with no shame or even faint embarrassment.

Have you forgotten the Maung?

The Maung fought alongside the Americans during their war on Vietnam. They were renowned for their courage and fighting skills and they endured some of the heaviest attacks from the Vietcong. When the Americans decided that they had had a bellyful of Vietnam and were no longer willing to fight for "freedom" and "democracy", they left Vietnam and abandoned the Maung to their fate without a backward glance. They would not even allow Maungs to immigrate to the US. Today, after relations have been normalized between the US and Vietnam, the Maung still suffer and the Americans still ignore them. In your case, dear brothers, have you forgotten when Saddam Hussein attacked you after the 1991 Gulf War, how American CIA officers ran away and abandoned you without even warning you that Saddam's tanks were on their way? Have you forgotten how they refused to accept Kurdish refugees who escaped? With friends like these you really don't need enemies.

The Americans will soon be leaving Iraq, do not doubt it, and they will abandon you to the inevitable retribution of the Muslims of Iraq. Your alliance with the US against the Muslims of Iraq and your alliance with Israel will bring upon you the hatred and contempt of Muslims around the world for generations. And for what? For empty promises that no one intends to keep?

Your situation is almost hopeless. You have one last chance - and that is to revolt against your leaders and align yourselves with the rest of Iraq against the Americans. This must be done, however, before the American plan for withdrawal becomes widely known. Otherwise your change of allegiance will be meaningless and will not protect you.

Do not feel sorry for your leaders; they will all be living very comfortably in the US enjoying a peaceful life. It will be you, alone, who will have to face the bitter consequences of their treachery.

You have been warned.

Note: This letter, in a semi-official Saudi newspaper, is good evidence that Saudi Arabia is an enemy of the United States and should be treated accordingly. As Sunni Arabs, the Saudis would do well not to preach to the Kurds. Sunni Arabs, a mere 17% of Iraq's population, ruled and oppressed 60% of Shiite Arabs and 20% of Kurds ever since Iraq achieved independence. Their deserved punishment when the Americans leave Iraq would put them under the rule of the Shiites and the Kurds. Incitement from Sunni Arabs in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere aims to set the Shiites against the Kurds, but may not succeed in this as the Kurds are no threat to the Shiites, while the Sunni Arabs are.