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202 articles tagged "Saudi Arabia"
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DEBKAfile
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February 18, 2008, 1:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
The foreign ministry in Riyadh warns citizens to stay clear of Lebanon in view of the "unstable political and security circumstances there right now."
Riyadh backs the pro-Western government of Lebanon which is challenged by the pro-Syrian opposition led by Hizballah amid increasing street clashes in recent days. the Saudis ... 
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January 31, 2008, 3:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Saudi Sheik Safar al Hawali is an eminent al Qaeda ideological authority and a close personal friend of Osama bin Laden. During US President George W. Bush's visit to Riyadh earlier this month, the Saudi security authorities placed him under house arrest and forbade him to issue a proclamation ...
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January 23, 2008, 1:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
In an interview with Reuters, Prince Turki al-Faisal, former Saudi ambassador to the US and UK, again touted the 2002 Saudi peace initiative requiring full Israeli withdrawal from "occupied Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese land" in return for "full normalization of relations." But Turki added a refinement: If Israel signed a ...
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December 22, 2007, 10:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Islamic Republic's first president to take part in the annual hajj, he announced he would be meeting officials as well as "the Great Muslim community."
debkafile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly have closely tracked the unfolding of the Saudi-brokered Washington-Tehran dialogue, moving on now to the evolution of Riyadh's ... 
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November 26, 2007, 12:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
With only hours to spare, the US organizers of the Middle East conference opening in Annapolis Tuesday decided to make the best of a forlorn event by switching its leitmotif from the intractable Israeli-Palestinian dispute to Iran - and its multiple threats to the Middle East.
The big star-studded show ...
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November 22, 2007, 9:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Syrian president Bashar Assad is not satisfied with the offer delivered by the king for the Golan issue to be mentioned at the opening and closing of the event. He wants it on the conference table as the price for Syrian attendance. The Israeli cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Monday ...
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September 2, 2007, 11:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Work on the first section of the Trans-Arabia Oil Pipeline begins November, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 313 revealed on August 10. This section, which will take 5 million barrels of oil a day from Saudi Arabia's Ras Tannura terminal, will be part of a vast five-pipeline network crisscrossing the Arabian Peninsula overland ...
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August 27, 2007, 1:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen have launched the vast Trans-Arabia Oil Pipeline project with encouragement from Washington, DEBKA-Net Weekly 313 revealed on Aug. 10, 2007. By crisscrossing Arabia overland, the net of oil pipelines will bypass the ... 
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July 28, 2007, 3:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The US Secretaries of State and Defense are traveling together - unusually - next week for a mission weighty enough for the Bush administration to deploy a double-barreled top team. Built around a massive $20 bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia, it ... 
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May 14, 2007, 8:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
Foreign minister Tzipi Livni met her Egyptian and Jordanian opposite numbers in Cairo Thursday. Prime minister Ehud Olmert has a face-to-face with King Abdullah 11 in Petra on May 15. This will be his first foreign trip since a scathing report on his management of the Lebanon War sparked demands ...
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May 12, 2007, 10:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
One bridge across the Tiran Strait will span a distance of 25 km from the Saudi mainland at Ras el-Sheik Humayd to Tiran island; the second will carry traffic up to the Egyptian Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, becoming the first direct link between Arabia and Africa.
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May 1, 2007, 5:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudis and foreign nationals were among the detainees. They included terrorists trained to fly aircraft and carry out suicide attacks against "public figures, oil facilities, refineries and military zones," said the interior ministry spokesman Brig. Mansour al-Turki Friday.
debkafile's counter-terror sources say this ring was supported by and linked ... 
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April 22, 2007, 7:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi foreign minister Saud al Faisal announced at the end of their Cairo meeting on April 18 that three teams will explain to world governments the plan's importance and lobby for its implementation. The fourth team will hold talks with Israel. debkafile adds: This is no breakthrough. The ...
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April 1, 2007, 7:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
The live wire at last week's Arab League summit in Riyadh was undoubtedly the non-Arab guest of honor, Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
He breezed around the Arab delegations hard-selling the notion of a mutual defense treaty between Iran and the Arabs on the lines of the Tehran-Damascus pact. Mottaki ... 
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March 30, 2007, 3:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
In its coming issue, DEBKA-Net-Weekly examines Riyadh's maneuvers, why and how the Saudis stalled Condoleezza Rice's latest Middle East mission.
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DEBKAfile
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March 17, 2007, 11:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
Foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal described as "ludicrous" some Israeli leaders' recent suggestions that they are open to discussing the plan - with certain reservations.
DEBKAfile
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March 11, 2007, 4:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
King Abdullah has invited rival Lebanese politicians to Riyadh to hammer out a settlement. The political crisis in Beirut has paralyzed government since Hizballah and pro-Syrian factions launched a campaign to oust prime minister Fouad Siniora three months ago.
debkafile reports one of the issues on which the ...
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March 9, 2007, 12:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
Embassies in Riyadh have been warned the group blamed for last month's killing of four French expatriates touring historic sites could strike again.
Saudi Arabia reported Tuesday the arrest of suspects in the attack, gave two local nationals who got away to turn themselves in and offered a prize worth $1.9 ...
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March 2, 2007, 12:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Al Qaeda attackers machine-gunned the men in a group of French expatriates who live and work in Riyadh and were touring historic sites in the western region of the oil kingdom.
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February 23, 2007, 1:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Moscow will assist in Saudi development of a civilian nuclear program and build six "research satellites" for the oil kingdom. debkafile's Gulf intelligence sources report this was agreed in the Putin-Abdullah talks held in Riyadh earlier this week. Vladimir Putin and King Abdullah. Israeli military sources report that ...
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