Word: abdullah
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...from the West Bank city of Jenin--was believed to have acted in revenge for the killing of her brother and cousin by Israeli soldiers in June. She had apparently snuck into Israel through a section of the Green Line as yet unfenced. An Islamic Jihad leader in Gaza, Abdullah Shami, said the strike already showed the failure of the "racist isolation security fence." But the bombing is likely to spur Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into speeding up construction of the barrier, despite opposition from Washington...
...Bush Administration doesn't want to play along. A Jordanian official told TIME that Arafat asked Jordan's King Abdullah to implore the U.S. to reopen the lines of communication that it severed last year in response to Arafat's failure to crack down on militant Palestinian groups. But at a press conference with the King last Thursday, Bush dismissed Arafat as a potential partner and blamed him for sabotaging peace efforts by undermining Abbas. "That's why we're now stalled," Bush said...
Whether Prince Abdullah accepts that there is a cultural problem or just thinks he needs to improve his p.r. with the West, he has begun to address his country's reputation for chauvinism. TV's Channel 1, which like all Saudi media is state controlled, has begun to air a program called War on Terrorism. It has featured footage of the Sept. 11 and May 12 attacks as well as old speeches by Saudi leaders urging respect for foreign countries. In an effort to cool the rhetoric in Saudi mosques, authorities say they have arrested nine militant clerics...
...Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and, significantly, his father, President Bush is hearing a singular line from his most important foreign policy advisers: that he must engage with the Saudis, work with them to bring about change and not alienate them. Indeed, when President Bush spoke to Abdullah for 20 minutes by phone last week, say U.S. and Saudi sources, he went out of his way to compliment the Prince on Saudi Arabia's efforts to combat terrorism. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger, Massimo Calabresi, James Carney, Eric Roston, Elaine Shannon, Michael Weisskopf and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Amanda...
CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH First Deputy Prime Minister Half brother of King Fahd's, he handles day-today government operations...