Word: jidda
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...facto Saudi ruler. Bush brushed aside the controversy and, wanting the two countries to move forward, told Abdullah he would send advisers to discuss the purported financial networks. Abdullah received Bush's envoys on Aug. 5 in his As-Salaam palace in the Red Sea port of Jidda just as the afternoon call to prayer sounded. The U.S. group, led by the National Security Council counterterrorism chief, Frances Townsend, soon launched into a parley on the touchy topic. Townsend wanted more cooperation; Abdullah suggested a joint task force. The envoys seized the unexpected offer...
...Morocco. But the Arab nations and the Islamic world are humiliated and feel exploited by America. And now, after the war, those people are afraid of being conquered and occupied as Iraq was. What the terrorists are trying to do is simply stop the U.S. MOHAMMED ABDULLATIF SAFWAN Jidda, Saudi Arabia...
...commercial planes and killed 3,000 civilians; many prefer to believe that the attacks were the work of the CIA or the Mossad, and that the 15 hijackers were unwitting players in someone else's plot. "They were just bodies," a senior government official says. Spend an evening in Jidda, the hometown of Osama bin Laden, where young Saudis today flock to American chain restaurants and shopping malls to loiter away the stifling summer nights, and you rarely hear bin Laden's name. "They find it silly when people talk about al-Qaeda," says journalist Mohammed al-Kheriji...
Speaking to TIME in Jidda, al-Jubeir laid out the Saudis' case: "We play a moderating influence in terms of regional stability, oil markets and financial markets. And Saudi Arabia is the center of the Islamic world; 1.2 billion people around the world face Mecca in prayer. Wouldn't you want to have strong ties with a country that has this position?" Perhaps. But it's worth asking, At what cost...
...generation ago, vast swaths of the Arabian Peninsula lacked the basic infrastructure of a modern society--roads, running water, electricity. Today nearly half the country's 22 million people live in Riyadh or Jidda, and Saudis make up the biggest market for U.S. consumer products in the Middle East. When they're not fighting city traffic in Cadillac SUVs, middle-class Saudis frequent gleaming shopping malls lined with designer brand names from the U.S. In a country where women are required to wear full-length abayas in public, you can catch Sex and the City on satellite TV every Friday...