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...worldwide BE ON THE LOOKOUT bulletin, or BOLO, has led to the detention of a 21-year-old Saudi man suspected of links to the Sept. 11 hijackers. The issued the BOLO alert for Saud A.S. al-Rasheed when his passport photo appeared on a CD-ROM with pictures of some of the 19 hijackers. The disc, turned over in May by a foreign government the FBI would not disclose, had only recently been analyzed because of the volume of material the agency has collected since the war on terrorism began, the bureau said. The bulletin included al-Rasheed...
...Leading Saudi investor Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, a leading advocate of strong U.S.-Saudi ties, challenged the FT report and said he was expanding his U.S. holdings. But other leading investors are urging disinvestment in response to threats against Saudi holdings in the U.S. And a follow-up FT report notes that fund managers suspect capital flight is underway, and expect it to have an impact on the dollar...
...extensive as reported, the news certainly functions as a warning shot from Riyadh over the future of U.S.-Saudi relations. The September 11 attacks, in which 15 of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi origin prompted some Washington hawks to challenge the longstanding U.S. alliance with the House of Saud. In the weeks and months that followed, they painted the Saudis as double-dealing autocrats whose rigidly controlled society actively nurtured extremism, and who could not be relied on as an ally in the U.S. war on terrorism...
...Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Saudis are pushing for a peace-plan based on Israel's 1967 borders, and urging the U.S. to restrain Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. The Saudi position, once again is motivated in part by the fear that the survival of the House of Saud requires placating the anti-American rage generated among ordinary Saudis by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and like many moderate Arab regimes, they're particularly alarmed at the potential domestic consequences of a U.S. attack on Iraq while battles rage in the West Bank and Gaza. But the most forceful advocates of attacking...
...voted to impeach Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo. The lower House of Representatives backed a resolution calling on Obasanjo to resign or else face impeachment on charges of misrule. SAUDI ARABIA Bent Out of Shape The axis of evil developed a kink in it when Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal revealed that Iran, one of U.S. President George W. Bush's three arch-enemies, had handed over 16 Saudi Arabians who were allegedly members of al-Qaeda. The 16 men had fled to Iran to escape war in Afghanistan. The Iranian authorities knew that information gained from...