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...Brothers," cried Nasser, "in such affairs it is difficult to produce documents, but this time we have them." As Syria's Intelligence Chief Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj hovered at his side, Nasser dramatically yanked a canceled check from a Manila envelope and shouted: "The first million was paid by Check No. 85902, drawn on the Arab Bank in Riyadh Feb. 20, 1958, payable to bearer and 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...
...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...
...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 Serraj, told him that "the Americans are advised of what is going...
Battle Lines. The plot's truth or fiction scarcely mattered. What was important was that Nasser had made the charge at all. In doing so, he had made an open break with Saud, giving up all hope of wooing him to his Arab Republic, heedless of the fact that this must drive Saud toward the Hashemite federation of Iraq and Jordan. Plainly, Nasser was pinning his hopes of uniting the Arab world on an attempt to unseat its Kings-Iraq's Feisal, Jordan's Hussein, and now Saudi Arabia's Saud. It was a dangerous ploy...
...standard part of every dramatic turn in the Middle East's crises, rousing mass anger or diverting the attention of the streets. Last week plots were busting out all over. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba charged that Cairo had plotted to have him assassinated. In Egypt, Nasser's intelligence officers charged that five conspirators 'had accepted British and Saudi money in a plot to assassinate Nasser last year. The Nasser-Serraj bombshell successfully diverted Syrians' attention from Nasser's announcement of the new republic's Cabinet-which gives the Egyptians nine of ten U.A.R...