'US Only Answer for Middle East,' Says Saudi Envoy

"Voicing support for U.S. involvement in Iraq, the Saudi ambassador to the United States said the U.S. has a important role to play in the Middle East, 'whether it wants to or not.' 'It is of vital interest to us as well as the United States that Iraq would remain a unified country,' said Saudi Ambassador to the United States Prince Turki al-Faisal. If Iraq were to be divided on ethnic or sectarian lines, he warned, problems in the country would increase three-fold, and there would be ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. 'The United States is the only one who can do the right thing for everybody in the Middle East,' Faisal said." Full Story