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Many ordinary Saudis agree that Abdullah, unlike most of their princes, realizes the correct answer to that question is yes. To the surprise of many who knew him as the stodgy, longtime commander of the 75,000-strong Saudi Arabian National Guard, he emerged well before Sept. 11 as a rare Saudi leader in advocating internal reform and a more assertive foreign policy. As Abdullah's profile rises, no other prince matches his popularity, which is largely due to the Saudi perception of him as straight-talking and above corruption, especially compared with some of his conspicuously super-rich brothers...
...Noted "To be very frank with you, how can we defend America?" CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH, Saudi Arabian royal, explaining the Saudi regime's concern about America's credibility in the Arab world...
...must unhitch its horse from the Saudi Arabian cart. The country is on a demographic and economic path to revolution. Falling living standards due to explosive population growth and declining oil revenue will focus public attention on the un-Islamic nature of the ruling regime’s extravagant lifestyles. We need not and must not be at the Royal Family’s side when things fall apart...
...about what Lindh actually did in Afghanistan. But he says the comments from Lindh's revealing December sessions with the FBI must be ruled inadmissible, since Lindh had asked for a lawyer more than a week before but never got one. Instead the U.S. kept him floating around the Arabian Sea, where the selection of attorneys is quite limited. "Our government is playing with dynamite," Brosnahan told TIME. "[My client] has a right to counsel under the Geneva Convention...
This blurry home video might have simply been another creative way to inform the world that should bin Laden be called to paradise, there will be plenty of Muslim extremists left on earth to help carry out other evil acts. And did bin Laden's honored Saudi Arabian guest know he was taking part in a conversation that was being taped and might be broadcast worldwide? Probably not until he saw it on television. Such is bin Laden's perfidy. YVONNE FRAUENFELDER Santa Rosa, Calif...