Word: aziz
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...Saudi regime's collapse. Militants have killed three Americans in the past month, including Paul Johnson, an engineer and a 20-year veteran of Saudi Arabia who was kidnapped and beheaded. After Johnson's murder, Saudi security forces killed the purported leader of alQaeda in Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz alMuqrin. Last week Crown Prince Abdullah announced an amnesty for extremists willing to surrender over the period of one month. The government also announced that for the first time, foreigners will be allowed to carry weapons...
...open the door of pardon ... to anyone who deviated from the right path and committed a crime in the name of religion." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD of Saudi Arabia, offering a partial amnesty to Islamic militants who turn themselves in to the government in the wake of a rising number of terrorist attacks in the kingdom...
...going to end, or are my children going to have to accept this as a part of their lives?" Says a Saudi political analyst: "The way people are talking, it amounts to a no-confidence vote for the government." Al-Qaeda's campaign to overthrow King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud and establish a Taliban-style regime has now become a constant assault. The attacks are targeting Western experts and the oil trade - the twin pillars that have propped up the House of Saud almost since the desert kingdom was founded in 1932. The Saudis are still far from...
...That's the way al-Qaeda sees it, too. The latest surge of violence began only days after an Internet message attributed to al-Qaeda's purported leader in Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, a high school dropout and veteran of jihad in Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia and Algeria. "We instruct the jihadi youth to direct their efforts against the Crusaders," he commanded. "Kill them wherever you find them." On May 1, four terrorists carried out an assault in Yanbu on the Red Sea, killing five foreigners. The late May blitz on Khobar was far more devastating. Beginning about...
...shouldn't forget that Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the Hamas leader who was killed in an Israeli missile attack [April 26], was a pediatrician. Pediatricians specialize in maintaining children's health and growth. They should have an underlying respect for human life. Where did Rantisi go wrong? When did he abandon nurturing life and turn to cultivating hatred among adolescent Palestinians, openly applauding young men for blowing themselves--along with the innocents around them--to bits? A destructive influence is now gone from the Palestinian fabric. LUCY RUBIN Pretoria...