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...Israel. You see a lot of hand-wringing about the suffering of ordinary Iraqis. But the deepest Arab opposition to the war is motivated by something genuine and understandable: Arabs are afraid that America's war will lead to a catastrophe. "Regardless of what people say," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al Faisal told me last month, "the issues are never manageable, especially in such a complicated country as Iraq...
...anti-American rage. Terrorist ranks would find fresh recruits to spread violence across the region. Fundamentalist forces could provoke crackdowns that stifle any political opening. Or if regimes allowed a tenuous democracy, well-organized fundamentalists could come to power. "The consequences of war," Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal tells Time, "are going to be tragic...
...only if it had U.N. backing. In the Arab world, diplomats believe a U.N. mandate for military action is essential if a war is not to be seen as a crude display of American power. Keeping the issue of Iraq under the U.N. umbrella, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told TIME recently, "would remove the idea that there are ulterior motives for whatever actions that are being taken against Iraq, as an effort to put Iraq under the thumb of imperialism...
...been publicly brandishing a knife at Saddam, pushing an initiative that could provide him an escape--voluntary exile--but is aimed more at provoking his overthrow by promising potential coupmakers amnesty from war-crimes prosecution. "I can visualize elements of the regime turning away," Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told TIME...
...days. That process is about 85% complete. The most probable scenario, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research institute in Washington, has oil prices running up a few dollars, to about $36 per bbl. As Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud, one of the world's leading stock-market investors, tells TIME, "Oil prices could shoot up initially not because there is a shortage but because of the perception there will...