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...short term, the price of oil would surely rise, as it did after the Iranian revolution of 1979. The Saudi holy cities of Mecca and Medina are the destination for millions of Muslim pilgrims each year. They could easily become the rallying point for the sort of global jihad that could quickly turn into a clash of civilizations. For now, that is an unlikely prospect; the Saudi royal family has deep reserves of loyalty, and Abdullah seems to be personally popular. But the U.S. can help ensure stability by being honest with its ally. The real problem with U.S.-Saudi...
...1980s, Turki met bin Laden, a prominent volunteer in that war, five times and remembers him from those days as enthusiastic but gentle and shy. The Saudis first began to be worried about bin Laden in 1990, after he returned home from Afghanistan still hungry for more jihad. Soon after, according to Turki, bin Laden began taking veterans of the Afghan war to North Yemen to fight the Marxist regime in the Republic of South Yemen. "North Yemen is an arms market. You can buy a weapon anywhere. He had to be stopped," says Turki. "The kingdom said, 'You have...
There he began issuing diatribes against the Saudi government and called for jihad against the U.S. That, says Turki, prompted the Saudis and Americans to start systematically sharing intelligence on him. By then, Turki notes, assassinating bin Laden was not an option. The Saudis did not have the "assets"--the undercover agents--to do it. "If we had the assets, maybe we would have made a proposal--to infiltrate people in to take him out. I don't think [the CIA] had the assets [either...
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When it comes to demagoguery, graphics are paramount, as some current covers of Islamic Jihad magazines from Pakistan's Markaz Ad-Da'wah Wal Irshad (Center for Preaching) demonstrate. The Voice of Islam, left, is helpfully published in English, but even those not fluent in Urdu could get the gist of the magazines' tone from the 1950s B-movie graphics and the copious use of shadowy typefaces. Just in case, we have provided some translation as well...