ملف ٤٢/ ١٩٣١ "ادعاءات الإغارة في مناطق نجد-شرق الأردن" [و‎‎٣‎٥‎٦] (٩٣٠/٧١٦)

But it is essential to prevent the tiger from
eating the goat once and for all* for* if he does so* ne~st-
tims he will climb the tree which lias safely harboured the
sportsman. That this is no remote possibility requires
little proof. It is scarcely five years since an Akhwan
raiding party arrived within fifteen miles of Amman.
In 1924 the Akhwan twice reached the banks of the
Euphrates, in 1928 they were within forty miles of i&it*.
Then, however, the policy of assisting and strengthening
the Iraq Bedouin tribes was adopted. Hina months later,
Faisal al Duaish (it was he who hah come so near Basra
the year before) again advanced cn Iraq with a large force.
But this time, some two hundred tents of Iraq tribesmen,
with a backing of native Bedouin police, stood, 150 miles
out in the desert and offered battle. On reaching a
distance of twenty miles from their ramp, the Akhwan
paused to reconnoitre end then hastily recrctasaa ’-cu.-
frontier. For nine years the Royal Air Force and tha Army
had attempted the same result and failed. For nine years,
neither in Iraq nor any other country, had an Akhwan fores
with war banners turned back without attacking. The only
time it was ever accomplished the credit was due to Iraq
tribes to whom 6000 rounds of S.A.A. had been issued and vc
a handful of Arab police and troops totalling about forty
mr«k. The Hejd rebellion lasted for a year after this
incident during which the rebale bore their banners in
triumph in incessant raids more than half way across
Arabia, But never again did they recross or attempt to re-
cross tihs Iraq
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