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According to an American expert with close ties to Riyadh, Saudi King Fahd is "apoplectic" about the aggressive American probe. The Arabs, says this source, "are appalled and prefer to believe the B.C.C.I. investigation is a Zionist plot." Though the New York indictments differ little from ones handed down by the U.S. Justice Department, it has been New York's Morgenthau who has set the agenda. The Saudis claim that his father, former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, was instrumental in persuading President Harry Truman to recognize the new state of Israel. (The theory is shaky: ironically, it was a young...
...Rabin will do what he must to get them. The Arabs, as the saying goes, have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity, but they clearly want to help Bush too." That's right, says a Saudi Cabinet minister who was present when Baker met with King Fahd last week. "We didn't need to be told that we Arabs can help Bush by showing some flexibility. We owe him for the gulf war, and in any event we see the Democrats as Zionists. Even ((Syrian President)) Assad understands that four more years of Bush would be better...
...Mexican publisher, the struggling 34-year-old U.S. wire service again avoided dissolution when London-based Middle East Broadcasting Center agreed to purchase it for $3.95 million. The chairman and principal shareholder of MBC is Sheik Walid al-Ibrahim, brother-in-law of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The U.P.I. purchase marks the Saudis' first foray into the mainstream American press...
President Bush has won Saudi approval for a possible new U.S.-led military strike against Saddam Hussein. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to the U.S., has passed the word to senior American officials from King Fahd. Intelligence studies have found that Iraq remains a regional threat, with larger stores of biological and chemical weapons than was thought at the end of the war. If Bush decides to act, he will want to finish the job in time to reap election rewards. The Saudis will support air strikes or naval operations, but not another massive gathering of troops on their...
Tellingly, the first of the articles declares that the reforms are all grounded in Muslim theology. By affirming his devotion to Islam, the monarch hopes to enlist the support of clerics and scholars. Without their backing, Fahd risks losing control of the ideological battleground between progressive middle-class Saudis and conservative religious extremists, who have launched a campaign denouncing secular influences. In recent months fundamentalists have increased their harassment of women who dress "immodestly" and have intruded into homes where people are suspected of drinking alcohol. Fahd's decree bans such actions...