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...Osama Bin Laden win last week's elections in his native Saudi Arabia, the first ever held in the Kingdom? Not quite - but the al-Qaeda leader's sympathizers should be more than satisfied with the results of 38 municipal contests held Thursday, the first round in a series of three such elections around the country. Islamic conservatives outpolled nearly 650 other candidates - including contenders with powerful tribal links and businessmen who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars - for all seven seats up for grabs on the Riyadh city council. They were better organized, emphasizing their technocratic skills while having...
...contrast, Suleiman Rashodi, a winning fundamentalist candidate backed by Al Awdah, exulted in the outcome. "My friend, this is an Islamic country," he told Time. "Liberals are far from our society. They are like the West." Rashodi calls bin Laden "a good Muslim," though he says he disagrees with his global jihad...
...Saudi Arabia among the 19 hijackers. Despite the vote's obvious shortcomings, Saudi newspaper headlines hailed the Kingdom's ?historic? election day and speculated that next on the reform agenda would be balloting for the 120-member Shura Council, a quasi-parliament whose members are appointed by King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud...
...voted were joyful, with many fathers bringing their small sons to experience and get a snapshot of the moment. Officials pulled off a smooth election, thankfully free of the terrorist attacks in the country by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization that have killed 221 since 2003. Yet women were barred from participating, while even male voters were allowed to choose only half the representatives on 178 toothless municipal bodies, the rest to be appointed...
...theaters and giving women the right to drive cars, earning him a torrent of warnings about Judgment Day from Islamist hardliners. Conservative candidates stressed their credentials as technocrats, but energized supporters with appeals on Islamist websites and open backing from Islamist diehards like Sheikh Salman al Awdah, a onetime Bin Laden ally who argues ?there is no place for secularism in the Muslim world...