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Doubtless, reverberations of the upheavals that rock Kabul will also be felt in Islamabad, Baghdad, Riyadh, Cairo and Tehran. The Bush administration needs to take these reverberations into account and move beyond retaliation to develop a more global strategy instead of petulantly pursuing their present series of reactionary policies in an attempt to boost lagging American confidence. Already, the U.S.-led coalition is shaky at best. Exisººting tensions between Pakistan and India have jeopardized the stability of the coalition, with India threatened by the recent warming of U.S.-Pakistani relations. With such antagonistic neighbors both possessing a nuclear...
...past five years, al-Qaeda officials have shown deep concern over the secrets held by its high-ranking members. When their finance chief was nabbed by the Saudis in 1997, there were discussions about assassinating him before he could turn information over to Riyadh and the U.S. When the head of the military committee drowned in a ferry accident in Lake Victoria in Kenya in the spring of 1996, al-Qaeda agents were sent to verify that he was indeed dead and that no secrets had filtered out. But if Salim is a big shot who knows too much...
ATTACK NOV. 13, 1995 RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA A car bomb at a U.S.-run training facility for the Saudi National Guard killed five Americans and two Indians. Four Saudis confessed on national television (they were later beheaded) and said they were "inspired" by bin Laden...
...TERRORIST ATTACK] Five Americans were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a military building in Riyadh in 1995; 19 died in a truck-bomb attack the next year...
...Back in Riyadh, Alwaleed had no regrets, but agreed that the feud was a setback for improved understanding. In an interview with TIME, he offered conciliatory words, saying he respects Giuliani and believes he is "doing a good job under tremendous stress." But he adds, "I went there to help bridge gaps with Americans. Mayor Giuliani had responsibility to bridge gaps too. Our job is never to give...