Word: fahd
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...conglomerate is run by 13 of Osama's 51 siblings. They remain close to the royal family, which has given them crucial contracts. Several Saudi princes have begun their careers in business chaperoned by the bin Ladens. But that relationship was tested when Osama began advocating rebellion after King Fahd allowed American troops into Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. The government exiled Osama, and his family quickly renounced him. Not long after the Sept. 11 attack, Osama's uncle and family patriarch Abdullah, speaking from his home in Jidda, declared the family's "strong denunciation and condemnation of this...
...three countries (along with Pakistan and, until recently, the United Arab Emirates) to recognize the Taliban government, Saudi Arabia is in the hot seat. The U.S. military, which encamped in the nation during the Gulf War, has still not left. King Fahd welcomes it, but fundamentalists are furious--to say nothing of Osama bin Laden, a native Saudi and son of a Yemeni immigrant. Things got touchy last week when the U.S. asked for permission to launch strikes from a new Saudi air base and the Saudis, for now at least, balked. If a war places Saudi oil reserves...
When bin Laden began to write treatises against the Saudi regime, King Fahd had him confined to Jidda. So bin Laden fled the country, winding up in Sudan. That country was by then under the control of radical Muslims headed by Hassan al-Turabi, a cleric bin Laden had met in Afghanistan who had impressed him with the need to overthrow the secular regimes in the Arab world and install purely Islamic governments. Bin Laden would go on to marry al-Turabi's niece. Eventually the Saudis, troubled by bin Laden's growing extremism, revoked his citizenship. His family renounced...
...Scott MacLeod: Cheaper air travel may be a contributing factor, but the primary reason for the scale of the hajj today is that over the two decades of the reign of King Fahd, the Saudis have made a top priority of making the pilgrimage more accessible to Muslims. Fahd came to power when Saudi Arabia was flush with oil revenues, and he allocated many millions of dollars to upgrading the Holy sites in Saudi Arabia to make them more accessible to pilgrims. Using oil revenues, the capacity of the great mosque at Medina was expanded almost tenfold, while the capacity...
...fuss is being duly kicked up. Administration officials told the New York Times on Wednesday that Clinton got favorable responses to the proposals from Mubarak, Jordan's King Abdullah II, and King Fahd in Saudi Arabia - much warmer responses, anyway, than Clinton got from the moderate trio after Camp David in July. But with the summit off and Arafat making the rounds, the Arab tone turned a bit nastier...