AMMAN, September 16 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Saudi Arabia, which had verbally opposed U.S. plans to attack Iraq and refused to allow use of its air bases for strikes on any Muslim state, has finally fallen back in line with old ally Washington.

Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal announced Sunday, September 15, that Riyadh would cooperate in a U.S.-led attack on Iraq if the United Nations Security Council gives the green light.

Jordan's National Mobilization Committee for the Defense of Iraq, which groups trade unions, political parties and ordinary citizens, denounced Monday, September 16 the Saudi stand in a statement to the press, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

"The Arab masses remind the Saudi minister that hundreds of resolutions issued by the [U.N.] Security Council against Israel have never been implemented," the statement said.

It dismissed Prince Saud's remarks as a "bid aimed at reducing the impact of the hostile American campaign launched against Saudi Arabia after the September 11 incidents, and to prepare for the aggression on Iraq".

"Such attempts by 'the oil princes' will not succeed in improving their image in the eyes of the U.S. administration whose priority is to implement Zionists’ goals," the group said.

On Sunday, Prince Saud told CNN: "If the United Nations takes a decision, by the Security Council, to implement a policy of the U.N., every country that has signed the charter of the U.N. has to fulfill it."

"A decision of the Security Council under Chapter Seven [of the charter, authorizing the use of force] is binding on every member country" of the United Nations, the Saudi minister said.

Jordan has also stressed it would not let the kingdom be used as a launchpad for attacks on Iraq, amid growing public sentiment against any U.S. attack on Baghdad.

Several Arab countries seem to be following in the footsteps of Saudi Arabia. Qatar's Foreign minister has said that Qatar will consider if a request is made by its ally Washington concerning attacking Iraq.

In the Gulf, Bahrain - home to the U.S. fifth fleet, Kuwait, and Qatar, as well as Saudi Arabia, host large numbers of U.S. troops and huge stocks of materiel.

While supporting a diplomatic solution to the crisis, all can be counted on to line up behind the United States, the region's military policeman since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, AFP said.