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...right path and committed a crime in the name of religion." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD of Saudi Arabia, offering a partial amnesty to Islamic militants who turn themselves in to the government in the wake of a rising number of terrorist attacks in the kingdom...
...minority government look even more vulnerable Spain Three months after an upset victory in national polls, the ruling Socialists won a vote of confidence and 25 of 54 seats The conservative Popular Party lost 4 of its 27 seats - but did claw to within 2% of the Socialists United Kingdom The U.K. Independence Party buoyed anti-E.U. spirits, winning 12 seats, while Labour and the Tories slid Britain 's place in the E.U. will be a hot issue ahead of a national vote that could be called next year
...Union," said Le Figaro, "is that its most skeptical member calls the shots." French President Jacques Chirac helped Blair's reputation back home by denouncing his intransigence. "The ambitions for the constitution are reduced - especially on tax and social security - by the clear position of one country ? the United Kingdom," he complained. Blair's spokesman regretted Chirac's remarks and pointedly alluded to Britain's allies among the new eastern members - like Poland and the Czech Republic - who are now diluting France and Germany's historic domination of the E.U. "We are operating in a Europe...
...Qaeda, for its part, appears to have evolved its approach to dealing with the House of Saud. For years, the movement refrained from mounting attacks inside the Kingdom, and Osama bin Laden's public statements advocated a reforming of the Royal Family - ousting those allied with the U.S. and empowering those more sympathetic to al-Qaeda's worldview - rather than ousting them altogether, a prospect that even alarms substantial sections of the clerical hierarchy. But that approach appeared to change last May, when al-Qaeda launched its current campaign of terror inside the Kingdom. Today that campaign targets...
...exporter, at least until the damage to the pipelines leading to the export terminals at Basra can be repaired - and the sprawling network of oil pipelines in both north and south remain vulnerable to further attacks. Qaeda attacks in Saudi Arabia have not thus far directly effected the Kingdom's physical ability to pump oil, but targeting oil towns and Western personnel - to the extent, for example, that all U.S. citizens have been urged by the State Department to leave the Kingdom - send a signal of instability that can wreak havoc on the sensitive futures markets...