Refuting the lie that the Okaz newspaper fabricated against the Shaykh, then speaking about Iraq and Saudi Arabia (the mistakes they committed).

The Shaykh : I would have wished that the publisher of that false news would have investigated and known the truth about the person to whom that news was attributed. I am a man to whom Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He) has granted the ability to speak the truth by which I worship Allah, without regard for a friend, a relative, or any of the things that people, or at least some people, take into consideration. If the Saudi state, with whom we share at least the creed of tawhid (the oneness of Allah), had invited me to attend that conference held in opposition to the one held by the Iraqis, if the Saudi state had invited me to their conference, I would not have attended, let alone attend the conference of the Iraqis, with whom we do not meet in the most noble of creeds as we meet with the Saudi state. We conduct ourselves with the etiquette of the Noble Qur'an, as He (Mighty and Majestic) said: And those who spread that false news, surely many tapes and recordings of my opinion on this fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) that has befallen and surrounded the Muslim world in these recent days must have reached them. In them, I expressed my strong denial, above all else, of the Iraqi government, which rebelled against the Kuwaiti state. I mentioned in them what Allah willed me to mention, and I do not wish to repeat the speech that was scattered in those tapes. But it is sufficient for me to remind you that in some of them, I explicitly stated that the Iraqi state is the rebel and the oppressor against the Kuwaiti state, and that if the Saudi state had wanted to fulfill the obligatory religious duty, it would have realized the saying of Allah (Blessed and Exalted is He): I mentioned this and said, with regret...