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That did not go over well in Riyadh--or with Saudi critics in the U.S. The Saudis demanded that the material be released to make it clear that, as Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal put it, "We have nothing to hide." Sources tell TIME that around the time Bush decided to withhold the 28 pages, he telephoned Crown Prince Abdullah and had a cordial chat with the de facto Saudi ruler. Bush brushed aside the controversy and, wanting the two countries to move forward, told Abdullah he would send advisers to discuss the purported financial networks. Abdullah received Bush...
...shoulder-fired missile to an informant posing as a terrorist. In what appears to be a coincidence, at almost the exact moment the FBI was beaming over Lakhani's arrest, security forces in Saudi Arabia discovered a document indicating that Saudi militants were casing King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in preparation for an attack on a British target. U.S. officials believe that the militants may have planned to assault passengers at the check-in lines or down a plane with a shoulder-fired missile...
While the Lakhani case posed no immediate threat to U.S. security, the situation in Saudi Arabia was clearly imminent and volatile. Following the Saudi announcement, British Airways suspended all flights into the country, and the British and American embassies in Riyadh issued fresh alerts to their nationals. The U.S. message read in part, "There is credible information that terrorists have targeted Western aviation interests in Saudi Arabia...
...loyalty to the democratic government that succeeded Milosevic in 2000. As many as 200 lower officers may be fired as well, as the country seeks to gain NATO membership. Homeward Bound SAUDI ARABIA Five Britons, a Canadian and a Belgian convicted of a series of car bombings in Riyadh, in which one British citizen was killed and four other people injured in 2000, were released from a Saudi prison and deported to the U.K. The men, two of whom had been sentenced to death by beheading, were granted royal clemency. Saudi officials had claimed the men were involved in illegal...
...series of major terrorist incidents, including the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor; last year's attacks on a French tanker off Yemen's coast and an Israeli tourist hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; and the May 12 bombing of Western residential compounds in Riyadh...