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...KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia: FBI investigators are looking into whether a homegrown Saudi terrorist movement might be behind Tuesday's attack. The London Al-Arab newspaper received a phone call on Wednesday claiming the previously unknown "Legion of the Martyr Abdullah al-Huzaifi" was responsible for the bombing, and threatening more attacks if the foreign troops "occupying the holy Saudi land" did not leave. In Khobar, the investigation of the cordoned-off blast site is underway. An FBI team equipped to search through the rubble for clues is hunting for pieces of the fuel truck that carried the 5,000-pound...
...hard to put it back in. The potentially contaminated beef may reach Third World countries. There is no shortage of corrupt politicians who want to make big bucks at any cost. The whole world has shrunk to the point where there are no secure borders. ANWAR UL HAQUE Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia Via E-mail...
Verena Greig El Khobar, Saudi Arabia
...night recently in the nearby port of Khobar, Salih met his latest Juliet at her home, secure in the belief that Juliet's husband was out of town. Suddenly they heard the husband's approaching footsteps. The wife had the presence of mind to scream, "Thief! Thief!" and Salih, catching on, pretended that he was trying to escape. Salih was captured and arraigned for judgment before the local ruler, Emir Saud ibn Jiluwi, who decreed the traditional Arabian punishment for a habitual thief: public amputation of his right hand. Salih calmly accepted the verdict and did not even...
...rail road across the Sahara to Dakar. But it remains an amusingly archaic, Technicolored story about an indolent U.S. café-pianist (Dennis Morgan) and a Riffhounding French officer (Bruce Cabot), who are rivals for a French songstress (Irene Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader of the intransigent Riffs. But the pianist (who once fought for Loyalist Spain) turns out to have quite a way with the natives. El Khobar is not so black-hearted as black-faced and vocal. He and his tribesmen sing practically everything except Been Wukkin' on de Railroad...