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202 articles tagged "Saudi Arabia"
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January 7, 2010, 7:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
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January 2, 2010, 4:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Barack Obama belatedly accused al Qaeda in 
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November 29, 2009, 2:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
In response to an appeal from the Saudi King Abdullah, the Jordanian monarch this week dispatched his army's elite Royal Special Force of 2,000 commandoes to help the Saudis drive out the Yemeni Houthi rebels, who invaded the oil kingdom with Iranian support earlier this month. debkafile's military ...
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November 14, 2009, 9:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi Arabian and Iran-backed Yemeni rebel spokesmen agree on two aspects of their clashes on the Saudi-Yemen border: Sunday, Nov. 8, was the fifth day of their battle and both sides had taken dead and wounded. Otherwise, debkafile's military sources report, the state of combat is hard to ...
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November 9, 2009, 8:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
Thursday, Nov. 5, a substantial Saudi armored infantry force and tank column crossed the border into Yemen to do battle with Iran-backed Houthi rebels the day after they killed a Saudi border guard. Saudi air force F-15 and Tornado jets have been bombing Yemeni rebel positions near the border with ...
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November 6, 2009, 11:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
A multibillion transaction for the sale of highly sophisticated Russian S-400 Triumf (NATO codenamed SA-21 Growler) missile interceptors to Saudi Arabia is hanging fire over Israel's objections to their deployment within easy range of the Negev and Eilat port, debkafile's military sources report.
The $7 billion deal was ... 
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September 30, 2009, 6:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
After long shunning the Assad regime, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was expected in Damascus shortly Wednesday, Sept. 30, debkafile's intelligence and Gulf sources report. The Saudi monarch has decided to take up Syrian president Bashar Assad's offer to help bridge the rift between Riyadh and Tehran, who ...
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September 26, 2009, 2:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal's rejection of the Obama administration's Middle East approach was a lot more comprehensive than a blunt refusal to improve relations with Israel to help restart peace talks. debkafile's Washington sources report that in closed-door talks with US leaders, including secretary of state ...
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September 5, 2009, 10:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
Al Qaeda Sunday, Aug. 30, identified the suicide bomber who slightly injured Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, son of the interior minister and nephew of King Abdullah, in Jeddah Thursday Aug. 27, as Abdullah Hassan Tali al-Asiri, known as Abul Khair. Islamist sites reported: "The hero martyr on the list ...
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August 31, 2009, 4:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Muhammad bin Nayef, son and assistant of Interior Minister Prince Nayef who spearheads the kingdom's crackdown on al Qaeda, was injured Thursday night, Aug. 27, when a suicide bomber blew himself up at an open Ramadan gathering in Jeddah. He was officially termed lightly wounded. The king Abdullah rushed to ...
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August 5, 2009, 6:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal knocked over US president Barack Obama's "incremental" plans for the Middle East one by one and demanded "a comprehensive approach that "defines the final outcome at the outset and launches into negotiations over final-status issues, including the future Palestinian state, control of Jerusalem the ...
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April 3, 2009, 9:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
Riyadh is in uproar over the Saudi King Abdullah's snap decision to promote the interior minister Prince Nayef, 76, his half-brother from the rival Sudairi clan, to second deputy prime minister. This places him in direct line to the throne as the incumbent Crown Prince defense minister Prince Sultan lies ...
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March 23, 2009, 8:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources disclose that Saudi intelligence services are deep in recruitment for a new radical Islamist terrorist militia in the southern Gaza Strip towns of Deir al Balakh, Khan Younes and Rafah, with Egyptian blessing. More than 1,000 Palestinians have joined up in two weeks, poached from ...
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November 28, 2008, 5:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Only rarely does the Saudi royal house issue medical bulletins on its rulers. debkafile's Saudi experts say that the bare announcement Monday, Nov. 23, that Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, 83 or 85, had left for the United States Sunday for "medical checkups" and treatment for cancer indicates ...
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November 20, 2008, 12:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
As Somali pirates seized a Thai fishing boat Tuesday, Nov. 18, their third in three days, the Norwegian Odfjell SE announced its 90 tanker fleet would henceforth sail around Africa rather than the Suez Canal after the Saudi Sirius Star supertanker was hijacked out at sea Saturday.
The multinational naval ... 
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June 14, 2008, 12:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
The radical Egyptian cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who has a wide television audience, told the International Islamic Conference for Dialogue in Mecca that he would only talk to Jews who denounced Zionism. His speech at the Islamic Conference on Interfaith Dialogue opened by King Abdullah in Mecca which ended last week ...
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May 9, 2008, 6:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 347 2 first disclosed May 2 that Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, America's staunchest ally in the royal house, Minister of Defense and head of the Sudairi branch of princes, is dying of cancer at his villa in Geneva, Switzerland.
His brother, interior minister Prince Nayef, is ... 
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April 23, 2008, 7:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a series of statements, including one by Saudi King Abdullah, the world's biggest oil producer suspended plans Monday for a further increase in long-term production capacity. debkafile reports: The Saudi warning to consumers that it sees no need for further expansion reversing their recent pledges to the ...
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March 3, 2008, 7:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East sources report that this unprecedented order from the royal court in Riyadh on March 1 portends an unusual military outbreak in Lebanon. Kuwait quickly followed suit.
Standing by since Friday off the troubled Mediterranean shores of Lebanon, Israel and Gaza is the USS Cole guided missile ... 
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February 27, 2008, 1:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's military sources, each of the estimated half a million Gazans in flight, one-third of the total population, received a $300 grant, which accounts for the shopping spree they could suddenly afford. Hamas was therefore willing to spend $150 million on a maneuver for seizing control ...
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