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202 articles tagged "Saudi Arabia"
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February 23, 2007, 1:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the February issue of Sawt al Jihad, the Saudi wing of the jihadist group calls for attacks on US oil suppliers in the Middle East, Canada, Venezuela and Mexico. In a separate article, al Qaeda reports preparations for "quality attacks to shake the foundations of the crusaders in the ...
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February 15, 2007, 6:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian Fatah-Hamas reconciliation summit in Mecca last week under the auspices of Saudi king Abdullah effaced the US-led international boycott of Hamas. The senior signers of the peace accord, Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal, came away from their summit demoted in favor of Hamas PM Ismail Haniya and Abbas ...
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February 11, 2007, 4:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
It is no wonder that Israeli policy-makers have had little to say to the Palestinian reconciliation accord which Saudi king Abdullah brokered in Mecca last week. Israel was shouldered off the stage as a player in Palestinian politics, as was any hope of moderating the Palestinian anti-Israel war, a breakthrough ...
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October 4, 2005, 10:20 AM (GMT+02:00)
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How to save Syrian president Bashar Assad and his regime from toppling - or rather how to save him from himself? This was the main topic exercising Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah when they put their heads together in ... 
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August 1, 2005, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sultan's successor as next in line to the throne after Abdullah is certainly the subject of hot debate in the royal house. The Sudairis will see Sultan as seat-warmer for another Sudairi, his younger brother interior minister Prince Nayef, 72, who has won general praise, from Abdullah too, for his ...
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May 15, 2005, 11:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Saudi Crown Prince promised President Bush lat month in Crawfored to pump up oil production from 10 barrels per day to 12.5 million short term and 15 million long term. He laid down his price for "opening a new chapter in US-Saudi strategic relations." One, Sharon must be pushed ...
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December 30, 2004, 5:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
The night in Riyadh was torn Wednesday, December 29, by three huge explosions - not just the two officially confirmed. They were followed by long bursts of gunfire in northern and eastern Riyadh. debkafile's exclusive counter-terror sources reveal that the three car bomb blasts were part of an ...
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May 31, 2004, 2:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi security has thrown up checkpoints and a dragnet for three of the al Qaeda terrorists who escaped during the helicopter-borne Saudi commando attack early Sunday, May 30, that ended the terrorist group's shooting, hostage-taking spree. The Saudi oil company Aramco pledged to continue smooth supplies of crude to avert ...
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May 4, 2004, 10:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
The world's largest oil producer was shaken Saturday, May 1, by the first terrorist strike against a joint US-Saudi oil venture, the co-owned Exxon-Mobil-SABIC oil refinery at the kingdom's main oil exporting outlet to the West at the Red Sea port of Yanbu 350 km northwest of Riyadh. At least ...
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March 22, 2004, 8:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
US-Saudi relations, uneven since 9/11, have hit a new low over a fresh bone of contention: a sharply-worded protest from Washington against the continued detention of 16 Saudi reform campaigners, half of them university professors and including a number of Shiite spokesmen. Their immediate release was demanded. debkafile's ...
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January 6, 2004, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
They got a harsh response from Prince Nayef, the interior minister who leads the war against al-Qaeda. "The weak can't challenge the mighty. We are not a regime that wants people to be satisfied with us. We are here in Saudi Arabia in order to rule," he declared last weekend ...
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November 11, 2003, 12:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
The suicide bombing attack Saturday night November 9 that devastated Riyadh's Muhaya compound and killed scores was the work of an al Qaeda Lebanese team, according to our intelligence and counter-terror sources. With this strike, Osama bin Laden's Lebanese arm made its debut on the stage of international terror.
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November 10, 2003, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Though similar in operational method to the May 12 triple suicide attack in Riyadh, al Qaeda's suicide assault on the Muhaya housing complex in the Saudi capital Saturday night November 9 exposed two new features. Osama bin Laden's terrorists have taken a threatening step closer to one of their premier ...
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May 18, 2003, 12:49 AM (GMT+02:00)
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Click on small map for spread of al Qaeda network`s international bases. 1. The casualty count in al Qaeda's chain of attacks in Riyadh on Monday, May 12, is between 94 and 96 killed and 196 injured - almost triple the 34 dead grudgingly admitted by ... 
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May 13, 2003, 3:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
After midnight Monday, May 12, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network struck the United States and Saudi Arabia with devastating effect. In a multiple, multi-layered terrorist operation plotted as carefully as any military raid, small suicide squads hit three gated and guarded estates housing westerners in Riyadh and an American-Saudi ...
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February 14, 2003, 1:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
A bare two days after the latest audio tape attributed to Osama bin Laden was aired, al Qaeda has spoken again, refusing to leave the stage to Washington's comments and the guesswork surrounding the high terror alert declared in the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Normally, months go ...
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November 19, 2002, 7:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Whether because of the proximity of Osama bin Laden in the Empty Quarter desert that fringes Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and the UAR, or because of the debilitating squabbles besetting royal authority, debkafile's Gulf sources report that al Qaeda's followers in the oil kingdom are becoming increasingly brazen. ...
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October 14, 2002, 2:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The three overriding concerns exercising the Saudi royal family this past year were the state of relations with the Bush administration - the president and vice president, in particular; the handling of its unacknowledged ties with al-Qaeda and other radical Moslem groups - the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip ...
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August 12, 2002, 6:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi foreign minister Saud al Faisal's disclosure to the Washington Post of Sunday - August 11, that Iran had expelled to Saudi Arabia 16 al Qaeda fighters - was Riyadh's riposte for the damaging briefing presented recently by a Rand Corp analyst to a Pentagon advisory board. The briefing described ...
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April 24, 2002, 1:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi Arabia denies it has massed 8 brigades on its Jordanian border following secret intelligence reports of Israeli troop concentrations onits frontier with Jordan. (The Kingdom of Jordan is wedged between Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iraq and Syria.) Israel denied the Saudi claim Tuesday, April 23. The comeback was fast: "A ...
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