Word: saudi
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Don't be gauche. In Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries, eat and drink with your right hand; the left is considered unclean...
...enough for military operations. In a region full of perils, Shahab-3 is only one more potential menace. U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf can be hit by shorter-range Iranian Scud missiles. And Israel, which reacted calmly to the Iranian launch, already lies within range of Syrian, Egyptian, Saudi and Iraqi missiles...
...soared to an arid region in southeast Iran. Within an hour, the CIA's operations center phoned the White House situation room. Shahab-3 (Farsi for "shooting star") had taken to the air with an 800-mile range--enough to deliver conventional bombs, or someday nuclear warheads, to Israel, Saudi Arabia, southern Russia or U.S. forces in the Middle East...
...follow the same logic as some of our other neighbors." President Clinton worried aloud that the Iranian missile "could change the regional-stability dynamics in the Middle East." What that means, says Ian Lesser, an analyst with the Rand Corp., is that in a future crisis, such allies as Saudi Arabia and Turkey won't be eager to join U.S.-led coalitions against Tehran if "all their population centers are open to Iranian retaliation...
...headmaster at my Saudi school, who was an avid supporter of my [American] education, had to meet with my father for three hours before he gave his consent," el-Gaili recalls...