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Some Saudi dissidents view the recent bombings as signals that violent jihadis--those who fight holy wars--are seizing the ascendancy from Islamic moderates who advocate political reform. "After the Dhahran bombing, there was jubilation," says Saad Fagih, a Sunni exile leader in London. "Each of these acts is a kind of recruitment for this violent trend. It says, 'See? We are doing something.'" And in a country where even politically moderate Saudis proudly call themselves fundamentalists, the fundamentalist dissidents among the majority Sunni could be the greatest threat to the throne...
...have a quote on my desk by Saad, a Persian poet, that kept us going the whole year," Weiss said. "Have patience. All things are difficult before easy...
...sanctions lifted. But monitors like Ekeus suspect he has no intention of obeying the spirit of the ban. Iraq may already be secretly reviving its long-range missile program. Scientists continue to pursue ballistic-missile research, not only at sites destroyed during the war and rebuilt, such as the Saad 16 research and development center near Mosul, but in new facilities such as Ibn al-Haytham lab, constructed near Baghdad. While U.N. resolutions allow Iraq to build short-range rockets with a range under 93 miles, a U.N. expert notes "the same technology used to make a missile that flies...
...Sebbagh sisters--Laura, 28; Mazal, 26; Farah, 20--and their 18-year-old cousin, Eva Saad, were caught at the border, raped and murdered by Syrian authorities, who then stuffed the women's disfigured bodies in trash bags and dropped them off at their parents' doorsteps...
This signal of sinister hatred has reached outraged groups and individuals around the world. The Sebbagh and Saad murders have become a symbol of the struggle to free Syrian Jews. The blood of those innocent women, shed 18 years ago, was not spilled in vain...