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...Bush's stated goals of Palestinian reform, a viable independent Palestine and a secure Israel. SAUDI ARABIA Security Lapse Saudi Arabia's top security chief General Saleh bin Taha Khosaifan resigned just days after a car bomb killed Maximilian Graf, a 56-year-old German working in the capital, Riyadh. The Saudi intelligence chief Prince Nawwaf blamed the attack on "traders in illegal matters." But Western diplomats suspect that Islamic militants were behind this and previous bombings, which killed two foreigners and injured eight others since November 2000. KASHMIR Death Poll There was an upsurge of violence as elections...
...lent his name and image began a strategy of substitution. The strategy involved focusing on purely terrorist activities by small groups and striking highly symbolic targets, especially American interests in the Arabian peninsula: the 1995 car bombing of a U.S.-run training facility for the Saudi National Guard in Riyadh, which killed five Americans; the destruction of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998; and the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in October 2000. The enormous media impact of these operations was designed to demonstrate that America was not invincible and to renew popular support for militant Islam...
...photo and warned that he is "considered armed and dangerous." Said FBI official Bruce Gebhardt: "We're not saying that he's connected to [the hijackers], but we obviously have to be prudent and make sure we notify everyone." Days later al-Rasheed surrendered to Saudi officials in Riyadh. His father Abdulaziz Saud al-Rasheed told the Associated Press he had urged the young man, who he said was in Egypt when the bulletin was first issued last Tuesday, to turn himself in to authorities. The elder al-Rasheed called his son a peaceful person who "has nothing...
...over the oil wells if the kingdom doesn't do more to combat Islamic terrorism. "I thought the briefing was ridiculous," a board member said, "a waste of time, and the quicker he left the better." When the briefing leaked to the press, it sent diplomatic tremors ricocheting to Riyadh...
...Whether or not Saudi disinvestment proves to be as extensive as reported, the news certainly functions as a warning shot from Riyadh over the future of U.S.-Saudi relations. The September 11 attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi origin prompted some Washington hawks to challenge the longstanding U.S. alliance with the House of Saud. In the weeks and months that followed, they painted the Saudis as double-dealing autocrats whose rigidly controlled society actively nurtured extremism, and who could not be relied on as an ally in the U.S. war on terrorism...