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...open the door of pardon ... to anyone who deviated from the right path and committed a crime in the name of religion." CROWN PRINCE ABDULLAH BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD of Saudi Arabia, offering a partial amnesty to Islamic militants who turn themselves in to the government in the wake of a rising number of terrorist attacks in the kingdom...
...Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, even as he was renouncing terrorism to win the favor of the Bush Administration, really order a hit on Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud? Or are the Saudis pushing trumped-up charges? Libyan officials deny the accusations, Saudi sources stand by them, and U.S. officials--while saying "the Saudis are hyping" the story--aren't quite sure what to think...
...Saudi Arabia is not a democracy, and policy debates among the powerful princes at the top echelon of the Royal Family occur under a veil of silence. But divisions within the House of Saud over how to respond to al Qaeda's campaign are increasingly plain to see. A recent public statement by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington, appeared to chide some of his uncles responsible for the nation's security as he demanded an all-out war on al-Qaeda: "War means war," wrote Bandar. "It does not mean Boy Scout camp...
...Qaeda, for its part, appears to have evolved its approach to dealing with the House of Saud. For years, the movement refrained from mounting attacks inside the Kingdom, and Osama bin Laden's public statements advocated a reforming of the Royal Family - ousting those allied with the U.S. and empowering those more sympathetic to al-Qaeda's worldview - rather than ousting them altogether, a prospect that even alarms substantial sections of the clerical hierarchy. But that approach appeared to change last May, when al-Qaeda launched its current campaign of terror inside the Kingdom. Today that campaign targets...
...captured but the other three members vanished. A source close to Saudi intelligence officials told TIME that officials cut a deal to save lives by allowing the terrorists to flee. And worries about collusion between al-Qaeda and sympathizers in the security forces are rising. The House of Saud itself is riven with factions. Progress on critical issues - security, democracy, women's rights - has been hampered for close to a decade, since a stroke left King Fahd unable to govern. The government's weak response to the Khobar attack, says a Western analyst in Saudi Arabia, is in part...