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...this week. In what read like a page from Gaddafi?s "mad dog" days, Saudi officials said they had arrested a senior Libyan intelligence officer in November 2003 who confessed to organizing a plot involving Saudi dissidents to fire a missile at then Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud's Mecca residence. Gaddafi told TIME that the allegations were "a fabricated case, an intentionally destructive thing...
...Seif al Islam dismisses the assassination charges, but acknowledges that the Libyan agent was part of an effort to provide support to Saudis opposed to the Al Saud regime. Libya, he contends, has longstanding complaints of its own about Saudi support for Libyan Islamic extremists, including one who tossed a dud hand grenade at Gaddafi in 1995. Libyan support for Saudi dissidents accelerated after Abdullah scolded Gaddafi at an Arab summit in March 2003 during a session broadcast live throughout the Arab world. "You can say there was an activity," says Seif al Islam, "but not to kill the crown...
...conservative” lobby and eschews journalistic neutrality, mocks the stated purpose of the gift to promote better understanding of Islam as “blithe and childish,” saying, “If Harvard shares the Prince’s vision, then the House of Saud, the Iranian ayatollahs, and Moslem extremists of all stripes can breathe easily, knowing that academia’s strict definition of understanding precludes any sort of critical evaluation or the issuing of any value judgments” (Feb. 6). The Salient’s conclusion is that indeed the Islamic studies...
...Flying on to Riyadh Wednesday, Rice plans to deliver the same message to King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud and Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faysal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. She is gratified that Saudi leaders, like the Egyptians, have lectured Hamas sternly on their obligations to the peace process. But she wants Saudi Arabia to withhold official foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority until Hamas complies. There's also the separate matter of funding for Hamas. Saudi Arabia stopped funding Hamas through government channels several years ago, but U.S. officials believe the terrorist organization is still receiving...
...Middle East are cashing in on North America's great room rates and feasting on that luxury-lodgings market. Dubai-based Jumeirah has assumed management of New York City's Essex House, and Bombay-based Tata Group scooped up the Pierre. And now Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud, below, is spearheading the most recent five-star bid: a $3.9 billion offer by his Kingdom Hotel International and Colony Capital to buy Toronto-based Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. The two companies want to create a $5.5 billion high-end leader, with 120 hotels in 24 countries. Why the interest...