Word: fahd
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When the police arrived to arrest the women, they first had to step in to protect them from furious members of the mutawain, the country's religious police, who demanded that the women be jailed immediately. King Fahd deftly defused the dispute by declaring that a committee of religious scholars should investigate before any action was taken. The governor of Riyadh, Prince Salman Bin Abdel-Aziz, assembled a commission that rapidly decided that the women hadn't actually committed a crime. The committee found there was no specific prohibition in the Koran on driving. In fact, during the time...
...what, exactly, has the U.S. committed itself in Saudi Arabia? In an Aug. 9 letter informing Congress of his decision to deploy troops in Saudi Arabia, President Bush referred to "requests" from King Fahd and Kuwait; some three months later, the Administration is still not telling anyone, including the Senate or the House, the nature of the U.S. response. This refusal risks violating the Case-Zablocki Act of 1972, which requires the Secretary of State to submit to Congress within 60 days the substance of all international accords, written or oral. A year ago, failure to do so would have...
...question is whether the Arabs would carry the fight across the border into Kuwait. The Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan, said early in the crisis that his country could not be used as a launching pad for an attack on Iraq without King Fahd's approval. Commanders of the Egyptian and Syrian units have said their troops are deployed to defend Saudi Arabia and not for offensive operations. While a United Nations resolution authorizing force against Saddam Hussein might galvanize the Islamic forces, for some of them the thought of killing their "Arab brothers" is still a strong deterrent...
...think President Bush, King Fahd and President Saddam are equally committed to a peaceful outcome...
Mitterrand became the first Western leader to tour the gulf since the crisis broke. He dropped in on Saudi King Fahd (who was quoted by a French spokesman as saying of economic sanctions, "All is very well, but when do we strike?") and leaders of the United Arab Emirates, and spent a night on a French destroyer on embargo-enforcement duty in the gulf. The French press predicted that Mitterrand would soon order another 7,000 ground troops to Saudi Arabia, reinforcing an initial detachment...