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...group of Western-looking foreigners," says Khalid Yousef, a 22-year-old university student in Jidda. "You don't want to get caught in the cross-fire." Nowhere is anxiety running higher than in the fortified palaces that house the country's royal rulers. Though the al-Saud dynasty has controlled the country for 72 years, the public is losing faith in its ineffectual governance and doubts its ability to snuff out terrorism. British ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sherard Cowper-Coles calls the terrorist threat "serious and chronic." One Saudi lawyer, Mansour al-Qerni, is even more pessimistic. "Is this...
...governing council in 1992, he helped put down Islamic radicals who were starting to win elections. Throughout his 40-year diplomatic career, he has shown a preference for stability above all, which makes him a soothing figure for at least some of Iraq's very nervous neighbors. Says Prince Saud al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister: "The role of the U.N. and the confidence he can give to the people of Iraq ... will make or break the work he is doing...
Much of the material is familiar. The film buttresses its arguments from reports in the New York Times and the Washington Post, Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud and Moore's own best seller Dude, Where's My Country? But Moore, a master propagandist and incorrigible entertainer, knows how to assemble footage in piquant ways. He shows a news clip of Bush on a golf course saying sternly, "We must stop the terror," then reverting to country-club form by adding cheerfully, "Now watch this drive." Moore precedes his section on the Patriot Act by noting that...
...were grounded, dozens of Osama bin Laden's relatives were flown out of the country without the FBI being allowed to question them. Much of the material is familiar; the film buttresses its arguments from many TV and print sources, including Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud, and Moore's own best-seller Dude, Where's My Country? But Moore, a master propagandist and incorrigible entertainer, knows how to assemble footage in piquant ways. He precedes his section on the Patriot Act by noting that Attorney General John Ashcroft had lost his U.S. Senate seat...
...process deprive citizens of their liberties. The Bush Administration?s Iraq policy is handmade for Moore?s grievances. Bush and his father have enjoyed a long and profitable relationship with the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Ladens. The best-seller ?House of Bush, House of Saud? by Craig Unger, whom Moore interviews, estimates that the Saudis have enriched the Bushes and their closest cronies by $1.4 billion...