Our Deputy Sheriffs in the Middle East
Malise Ruthven, 16 October 1997
A Brutal Friendship: The West and the Arab Elite
by Said Aburish.
Gollancz, 414 pp., £20, July 1997,0 575 06275 4 Show More
by Said Aburish.
Gollancz, 414 pp., £20, July 1997,
“... covers the Middle East but not Algeria, he pulls no punches. ‘Reporters,’ he writes, ‘know King Fahd to be lazy, corrupt, ignorant and a drunk, but little is written about these things and he is still the West’s man.’ Prince Sultan, the Saudi Defence Minister, is one of the Kingdom’s biggest ‘skimmers’, making billions out of arms ... ”