CONFIDENTIAL Bagdad telegram No. 962 to Foreign Office has therefore also been instructed to assure the Saudi Representative in Cairo privately of Iraq's sympathy for Saudi Arabia and support for her. 3. It is clear that the Iraqis are counting on a speedy end of hostilities in Oman to rescue them from the ambiguous position into which they are now getting themselves. Foreign Office pass U.K. Del. New York, Karachi and Saving to New Delhi, Amman, Khartoum and Washington as my telegrams Nos. 32, 133, 3, 57, 28 and 139 respectively. [Repeated to U.K. Del. New York and Saving to Amman, Khartoum and Washington. Copies sent to Telegraph Section Commonwealth Relations Office for repetition to Karachi and Saving to New Delhi.] 8888
