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...SCOTT MACLEOD, TIME's veteran middle East reporter, was in the Emirate of Bahrain, just minutes away from boarding a flight to Paris, when he got word of the terrorist bomb attack at the American military compound near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Without a moment's hesitation, he had his luggage removed from the plane and started working on getting a visa. It was hardly a sure thing, since MacLeod had recently reported a TIME story that the Saudi royal family found displeasing. But by the next day he was at the scene of the explosion. "It was my misfortune...
...members were beheaded by the Saudi government for their involvement in a car bomb attack that killed five U.S. citizens last November. "The Islamic fundamentalist movement in Saudi Arabia is a loose collection of different underground groups following a similar ideology," says TIME's Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod. "In Saudi Arabia, there is no legal Islamic opposition to the government. These groups are not organized political bodies like Hamas or Hizballah, but the Saudis and the United States are taking them seriously anyway." Even in tightly controlled Saudi Arabia, says MacLeod, these groups are dangerous. "Some members of these...
...Yasser Arafat, who had staked much of his political career on the reelection of Peres, flew to London Monday to ask British Prime Minister John Major for assistance in keeping the peace process alive. "We are in need of your help," a worried Arafat told Major. TIME's Scott MacLeod reports: "If Netanyahu halts the negotiations with Palestinians or, even worse, reverses some of the headway already made, then Arafat will not be able to deliver on the promises he gave the Palestinians in making significant concessions to Israel. His credibility and the leadership of the Palestinian movement...
...Further underscoring the apprehension of Arab leaders, Mubarak, Arafat and King Hussein will meet in Jordan on Wednesday. "This meeting is a clear reaction of concern," says MacLeod. "It would appear that it may be the first step of an important move towards Arab unity and solidarity in the face of the expected shifts in Israel." Although none of the leaders, other than Arafat, have anything to lose in the short term if the peace process is delayed, they all face increasing pressures in the long-term. "In the absence of peace agreements which move things forward, both politically...
...ruling Suni government struck back at Shiite dissidents Monday, arresting 29 for allegedly attempting to overthrow the ruling Khalifa family with the help of Iran. "For nearly two years Bahrain's government has been experiencing political opposition and unrest from the country's Shiite majority," reports TIME's Scott MacLeod. "The Shiites have been demanding more political and economic representation from the ruling Sunni monarchy." Bahrain's Information Minister Mohammed al Muttawa said the plotters were part of an Iranian-backed group that wants to install a Shiite Muslim government modeled on Tehran's. Despite protests from the Bahraini government...