Word: riyadh
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...little to cheer about in the Saudis' latest rescue of Western consumers is Israel. While it's in Saudi Arabia's self-interest to help out the West in this instance - both to maintain stability in world oil prices and to deny a victory to its belligerent Iraqi neighbor - Riyadh also has some demands of its own. The Saudi leadership is reportedly outraged by Israel's reaction to the latest Palestinian uprising, and wants to see the U.S. play a more evenhanded role in the region. Crown Prince Abdullah, de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia since his half brother King...
...time the historic meeting adjourned, OPEC's leaders had established for themselves not just a new mandate but also a new identity. Gone are the dictatorial Saudi Arabian edicts of Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, who once practically ruled the cartel, if only by virtue of Riyadh's overwhelmingly dominant role as a producer. The new OPEC is, in the words of an Arab diplomat at Caracas, a "management group." Its new strategists are cosmopolitan technocrats, in some cases U.S.-educated. They speak the language of market economics and are unlikely to rock the global boat with sudden embargoes or regional...
...walk in lockstep. Lieberman opposes the U.S. release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, and he signed a letter to Barak protesting Israel's plans to sell China a sophisticated early-warning aircraft. He also visits Arab countries on Middle East trips. In 1991 he spent a week in Riyadh, where the Saudi royal family fixed kosher meals...
...capital will be exempt, from the world's oldest in Damascus to its newest in Palestine, from dusty Riyadh to scenic Rabat, from war-weary Beirut and Baghdad to sleepy Muscat and Manama, from landlocked Amman to seafront Algiers. Oh, and Jerusalem too. Syria, Libya and Iraq will witness the deepest transformations for the simple reason that their eccentric ideologies are the most bankrupt--and the most out of synch with their people. Their institutions are corrupt. And their economies are moribund...
...that one by again: The United States doesn't want to try a man suspected of a bomb attack that killed Americans - and they're sending him home?! Unless a federal court blocks his deportation, accused Saudi terrorist Hani al-Sayegh will be sent back to Riyadh Wednesday. The move comes after Sayegh, a Saudi dissident trained in Iran, stopped cooperating with an FBI probe into the 1996 attack on Khobar Towers in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, in which 19 U.S. military personnel were killed. Of course, going home could be more dangerous than staying in Washington. But the Justice Department...