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...word in diplomacy is carefully chosen, so there may be more to Rice's surprising statement than anyone will admit. Perhaps Rice's willingness to talk about ceasefire had to do with the Sunday afternoon meeting between President Bush, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Rice and Prince Saud Al Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister; Prince Bandar, the regime's top national security official; and Prince Turki, the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. The trio delivered a letter from Saudi King Abdullah to Bush. And though its content has not been made public, the Saudi government has made no secret...
...Faisal asserted that Saudi Arabia, though it is a traditional and conservative country, is not extremist...
...undertook a strategic plan that is making changes through the removal of intolerant material from textbooks,” Al-Faisal said...
...Muslim, those cartoons were not just insulting to me and my faith and my being, but also absolutely unacceptable,” Al-Faisal answered, calling for some sort of recourse against the instigators...
...Faisal, who graduated from Georgetown University, was appointed ambassador to the United States in July 2005, after serving as ambassador to the United Kingdom since January...