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...Saudis represent a particularly serious problem. Bush hasn't had very much to say about them. Indeed, the Bush and the al-Saud families have a long history of personal friendship and business dealings-and this relationship may soon become an issue in the presidential election. "Bush has not only been passive regarding the Saudis," says Bob Graham, former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "He has covered up for them." Graham is infuriated by Bush's refusal to release 21 pages of the Senate's investigation into the 9/11 attacks-allegedly the section dealing with Saudi involvement...
...easy to advocate when you're not in office. The hard-liners in the Bush Administration, most of them neoconservatives, would like to put greater pressure on the Saudis to reform, but they don't go so far as to propose regime change. The fall of the House of Saud is too scary to contemplate, because any alternative regime would probably be more regressive. It's one measure of the essential conservatism of the Saudi people that their country, despite the lack of freedom, produces very few political refugees. By Saudi standards, the Saud regime is liberal. "If you want...
...PRINCE SAUD AL FAISAL Minister of Foreign Affairs Son of former King Faisal, he graduated from Princeton University...
RISE OF WAHHABIS Early 1800s The Wahhabis, an orthodox Islamic sect that eventually allied with the prominent al Saud family, launch outward from central Arabia, invading Hejaz and Syria, taking Mecca...
COUNTERSTRIKE 1818 to 1922 The Ottoman Empire and Egypt took back the land by 1818. But in 1902 Abdul Aziz ibn Saud led a Saudi resurgence, successfully uniting the different regions into one nation...