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...backlash among fundamentalists, agreed to be host to 500,000 U.S. troops during the first Gulf War. But his tolerance for the extreme brand of Islam known as Wahhabism helped spawn the Islamic holy war led by Saudi native Osama bin Laden against both the West and the Saudi royal family...
...wealth to build schools, hospitals, roads and airports as well as to commission a vast reconstruction of Islam's holiest mosques in the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina. But many Saudis will also recall the Fahd era for the profligate lifestyle of many senior members of the royal family-and for the regime that ultimately needed the U.S. to save it from its neighbors, such as Iraq...
...Fahd leaves grave challenges behind for his successor, King Abdullah, 81, though as royal advisors are anxious to point out, Abdullah has been the Kingdom's ruler in all but name since Fahd began his decade-long health decline with a stroke in 1995. Fears of a messy succession struggle subsided when immediately after announcing Fahd's death following a bout with pneumonia Monday morning, Saudi television also declared that Abdullah would become King and that he had named Prince Sultan, 77, the powerful head of the Saudi armed forces, who recently recovered from colon cancer, as his crown prince...
...intervention force known as ramsi, the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands, that arrived two years ago to save a country heading for the scrap heap. Solomon Islanders were being killed and brutalized by rival militias, while a corrupt political and bureaucratic class, and a rogue Royal Solomon Islands Police (RSIP) force, either stoked the hate or failed to stop...
...have spent nine months in Solomon Islands. Vei Koso is a senior corporal who specializes in prosecutions. He spends most of his time with the Solomon Islands police officers in Munda, pursuing new leads on old cases and imparting his accumulated knowledge of investigations. Polutele is from Tonga's Royal Protection Squad, which guards the king and his family. He shaves his head and leaves the top two buttons of his tight-fitting shirt undone to reveal the tattooed crucifix on his chest. His dark eyes seem to say, How ya doin', especially to women, and his wide smile shows...