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...MILF has formally rejected Osama bin Laden's post-9/11 call for a worldwide jihad, and leaders deny training foreign militants or being part of any terror network. But the group isn't a monolith; radical elements appear to be ignoring the party line. "We believe that the MILF leadership means well but they cannot control their troops on the ground," said Armed Forces of the Philippines spokesman Lieut. Colonel Jose Cristino Mabanta. The U.S. is in the opposite position: its troops in the southern Philippines do follow orders. They might just have been ordered to fight the wrong...
Critics of Saudi Arabia will be quick to wonder if Abdullah shouldn't be paying less attention to the contours of a bowling green and more to the political lie of the land. The Sept. 11 deeds of Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden and 15 fellow Saudi plane hijackers have put the secretive Kingdom's worsening strains on public view as rarely before. Whether in response to the need to curb Islamic extremism, hold down soaring population growth, combat plummeting personal incomes or eliminate royal corruption, the world is calling on Abdullah - as are many Saudis...
...weekend in Saudi Arabia. crown prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud has rounded up a few brothers, sons and friends for a royal game of lawn bowls. Wearing a Bedouin robe and an incongruous pair of striped Adidas running shoes, the de facto ruler of the world's richest oil sheikdom is ready to play. He stands up to the pitch and hurls a weighty ball down the grassy turf with impressive precision. Throughout the afternoon, he is constantly up and down from his chair, despite his considerable girth and advanced age (78). In between throws and sips...
...reference to Operation Desert Storm saving Saudi skin back in 1991. But the Saudis are fearful that a carte blanche could entangle the Kingdom in American wars against Iraq or even Iran, making popular opposition to the U.S. military presence a hot political issue - which, despite bin Laden's rhetoric, it has failed to become. "Why do we owe you?" asks a Saudi official. "We are a partner who needs to be consulted. We can't have the U.S. military thinking that any time they go to war, Saudi Arabia will be the command-and-control center. Somebody...
...Prince Sultan Air Base (P-SAB in military jargon), where the U.S. has 6,000 Air Force personnel patrolling Iraqi skies. The problem was initial Saudi hesitation in allowing the Pentagon to use a new U.S.-built command-and-control center at P-SAB to conduct the drive against bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan. Known as the Combined Air Operations Center, or CAOC, the vast underground facility is manned with 300 specialists and equipped with satellite receivers, computers and secret communications. It enables commanders to direct a major war with real-time feedback on progress and setbacks...