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...carried out by 15 Saudi militants, ensured that Fahd would go down in history as the Saudi ruler who turned a blind eye to growing Islamic extremism. To protect the regime from spreading Islamic revolution following Ayatullah Khomeini's overthrow of the Shah of Iran, Fahd gave the Kingdom's ultra conservative Islamic establishment the green light to promote an ever rigid Wahhabi form of Islam so long as it continued to recognize the legitimacy of the House of Saud as Saudi Arabia's political leadership. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, he worked with the U.S. government...
...Fahd hoped to be remembered as the great modernizer who was also a faithful servant of Islam; a pro-American leader who used the Kingdom's vast oil wealth to build schools, hospitals, roads and airports as well as to commission a vast reconstruction of Islam's holiest mosques in the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina. But many Saudis will also recall the Fahd era for the profligate lifestyle of many senior members of the royal family-and for the regime that ultimately needed the U.S. to save it from its neighbors, such as Iraq...
...sparkling winter morning at Ha'atafu Beach on the northwestern tip of Tongatapu, the Kingdom of Tonga's main island, Sokoi Liava'a crouches on the shore and eyes the building swell with visible excitement. The forecasts that have been buzzing about the beach were right. After a week of flat or messy seas, clean 2-m waves are rolling in. The tall 25-year-old took up surfing eight months ago. He's unemployed now - a friend chips in that this is because Liava'a kept taking sick days to catch waves. Liava'a laughs this off, but without...
...asks Balbina Hwang, a North Korea expert at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., "What if they have?and their strategic decision is not to give up their nukes?" In that case, prospects for settlement of this crisis will remain as dim as the lights in Kim's benighted kingdom...
...Will Hong Kong's status be reinforced by Disneyland? Or is the replication of the Magic Kingdom a desperate exercise in copycat tourism that ignores Hong Kong's special attributes in favor of a dated American formula that will bring scant benefit? I know of no such equivalent in or around Monte Carlo?or, for that matter, in Nice and Cannes, both of which combine glamour, history, good food, a healthy climate and the flamboyant luxury of megayachts. By all means bring a casino to Hong Kong. But make it Monte Carlo, not Macau, which today has little more visual...