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The Gulf War Reconsidered - The New York Review of Books (9084 words) |
 | Cox was in a position to make the decisions, because Iraq was then a British mandate; Kuwait was a British protectorate; Ibn Sa'ud, the ruler of Nejd, was a British client. |
| The rest of the story is told in the memoirs of Cox's aide, Major Harold Dickson. |
| Another result of Cox's red line was the later dispute over the Rumaila oil field, a "mega-field." When Cox drew his line, oil had not yet been discovered in the Gulf region. |
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| Cox first met K¨az¿al in 1905, and the two formed a close friendship, which proved very useful to the British during World War I. The shaikh's domain was strategically important for the control of the Persian Gulf and development of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (q.v.), founded in 1909 (Wilson, 1919, pp. |
| It was Cox who conducted the difficult negotiations, in July 1909, for an agreement between K¨az¿al and the oil company, permitting the latter to build a refinery at AÚba@da@n, in the shaikh's territory, and a pipeline to it from the oilfields (Wilson, 1941, p. |
| Cox considered it “transparently so simple and innocuous that the more it is studied, the less justification will there be for hostility to it” (letter from Cox to Wilson, cited in Safiri, p. |
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