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...both agree that only a small number have been convicted and jailed. The majority have been released. "Not only that, high-ranking princes met the former Al Qaeda fighters to try and get them back on the boat," says a Western diplomat...
...Saudis feel most nervous about U.S. hostility," says another diplomat. "They don't trust the neo-conservatives, and are really afraid that in the name of reform, Washington will interfere in the domestic situation, even try to manipulate the succession in the monarchy...
...most detailed articulation yet on the issue, the soft-spoken diplomat said: "No war can happen anywhere that does not change relations between the countries that were involved in the war and the regional countries...
...talks in Beijing have not gone well. Discussions between U.S. and North Korean diplomats aimed at exploring ways to ease the standoff over the communist country's nuclear program broke off Thursday, a day early, with North Korea warning that it had already developed nuclear weapons and threatening to conduct a "physical demonstration" of its capability. The threat followed Wednesday's comments by a Russian diplomat engaged with the issue that a "catastrophic development" may be days away, and suggests that the North Koreans may planning to test a nuclear device - or, at least, that they want Washington to believe...
...North Korean delegates to the Beijing talks were well aware of the infighting in Washington, and reportedly quizzed Kelley on the Rumsfeld memo. The diplomat assured them that the Defense Secretary's memo - which suggests a somewhat farfetched alliance with China to topple Kim Jong Il - was not U.S. government policy. But the North Koreans may not be convinced by the soothing assurances of a State Department appointee over the growls emanating from the triumphal Defense Department...