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...uncles responsible for security in the Kingdom. Indeed, when he demands, "Enough blaming others when the reason lies within our own ranks!" he is explicitly criticizing a tendency, seen at the highest levels of the Saudi ruling family, to blame terror attacks in the kingdom on alien forces. Prince Nayef, the Interior Minister responsible for fighting terrorism in Saudi Arabia maintained long after 9/11 that the attack was the work of "Zionists," while even Crown Prince Abdullah, the day-to-day ruler of the kingdom in light of the debilitating illness of King Fahd, blamed the same mythologized foreign element...
...manufacturing explosives. The detentions bring the number of terror arrests to more than 200 since the May 12 suicide bombings in Riyadh that killed 35 people. Authorities blame al-Qaeda for that attack. Although the government hailed the arrests as a major strike against the network, Interior Minister Prince Nayef warned there was still a threat of terrorism. It's Over Already SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE A bloodless army coup ended as President Fradique de Menezes returned from Nigeria after signing an accord granting amnesty to the troops who toppled him a week earlier. Under the deal, de Menezes will...
...Jubeir came to Washington this week to tell of the Saudis freezing suspicious bank accounts, questioning more than 2,000 people and holding more than 100 in custody over possible al-Qaeda links. His mission wasn't helped by remarks that same week by Saudi interior minister Prince Nayef blaming the 9/11 attacks on Israeli intelligence. But al-Jubeir soldiers...
SAUDI ARABIA Improperly Dressed Interior Minister Prince Nayef defended Saudi religious police after press reports accused the mutaween of causing the deaths of 15 schoolgirls in a fire. The newspaper stories alleged that as the girls, aged between 13 and 17, tried to escape their burning school they were pushed back into the flames by police from the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice because they were not wearing their black robes and headscarves. Prince Nayef claimed the police were there "to ensure that the girls were not subjected to any kind of mistreatment outside...
Arafat moved Tuesday to shore up his support by meeting with Egypt?s President Hosni Mubarak and by extending an olive branch to George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh, leaders of radical Damascus-based Palestinian guerrilla factions opposed to the peace process. Syria has ordered Habash and Hawatmeh to end their armed struggle as it prepares to negotiate its own peace deal with Israel, and Arafat hopes that reconciling with them will isolate the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement, whose terrorist suicide attacks are the main threat to the peace process. But Hamas may not be feeling any urgency to strike. "They...