RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, July 11 (UPI) -- A senior Saudi cleric Monday discouraged Saudi youth from traveling to Iraq, warning that Iraqi informers could turn them in to U.S. forces.
Sheik Abdullah Motlaq, the head of the powerful Highest Committee of Ulemas, said that Iraqi bedouins were receiving money from U.S. forces in return for information about infiltrators from Saudi Arabia and other neighboring countries.
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He said he had been asked by Iraqi ulemas, or religious leaders, to ban Saudi youth from going to Iraq because they harm the Iraqis more than they help them. "Besides, they are being betrayed and given away," Motlaq added.
He said Saudi youth were wasting their life and future in Iraq.
