Word: saud
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...Asked about the impact of the war on Saudi-U.S. relations, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal replied: "As always with such questions, the answer is 'It depends...
...figures, as hordes of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen turned up for an emergency council of states bordering Iraq. Saudi Arabia had invited the foreign ministers of Syria, Turkey, Iran, Kuwait and also Egypt and Bahrain for a meeting to "crystallize a common stand", as its top diplomat Prince Saud al-Faisal put it, on the momentous events in their neighborhood...
...that the Riyadh conclave does not set even a general deadline for coalition forces to vacate Iraq . The joint declaration only reminds the "occupying powers" of "their obligation to withdraw from Iraq", and omits "as soon as possible", something which the other neighbors otherwise repeatedly emphasize (as did Prince Saud after the meeting concluded). The joint appeal then, is unexceptionable, since Washington has already said it will eventually pull its troops out of Iraq...
...King of Saudi Arabia, Abd-Al-Aziz ibn Saud, had authorized a team of American engineers to explore the trackless desert bordering the Persian Gulf, an arid landscape marked only by the occasional palm-fringed oasis. He hoped they would find water. A tribal leader with precarious finances, Ibn Saud believed the Americans might discover places where he could refresh his warriors' horses and camels. But the team, from Standard Oil of California, had something else on its mind. Oil had been discovered in other countries in the region, and the engineers thought they would find more in Saudi Arabia...
...Israel. You see a lot of hand-wringing about the suffering of ordinary Iraqis. But the deepest Arab opposition to the war is motivated by something genuine and understandable: Arabs are afraid that America's war will lead to a catastrophe. "Regardless of what people say," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al Faisal told me last month, "the issues are never manageable, especially in such a complicated country as Iraq...