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...arrest of 172 Islamist militants by Saudi security forces represents another blow to al-Qaeda, but it also sheds light on the group's determination to use its base inside war-torn Iraq to spread its jihadist campaign to Saudi Arabia and the wider Arab world...
...this kind of activity confined to the subcontinent. All around the world, countries are busy throwing up walls. Iran is building a bulwark along its border with Pakistan to stop illegal crossings. Botswana erected a 480-km electric fence along its boundary with Zimbabwe. Saudi Arabia is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on massive ramparts to separate itself from Yemen to the south and from Iraq to the north. Thailand wants a concrete barrier along part of its border with Malaysia. The U.S. is erecting a controversial fence along its Mexico flank. Israel is building a separation barrier between...
...that shouldn’t be too surprising. Since 9/11, environmentalists have found an unlikely ally with security hawks. Aware of the money trail coming from Saudi oil-lined coffers to radical madrassas, no self-respecting patriot can fill up at the gas pump with a clean conscience. More SUVs mean not only more floods and hurricanes, but terrorists as well. Neo-conservatives wring their hands in dismay, as the oil-rich regimes of Sudan and Iran have proved resilient to American pressures. Oh, how much bigger a stick we could wield if only America could rid itself...
...ethanol, produced from trees and shrubs, promises energy yield ratios of 16, but requires extensive research into cheaper enzymes. A full-scale carbon tax would help, but hawks reject such action as quite rash. At most, they might support a gasoline tax as a way of weaning America off Saudi crude...
...Colorado energy consultancy firm, IHS, stunned some of Iraq's politicians and oil engineers by declaring that the country's oil reserves were about 215 billion barrels - about double the estimates that have held for Iraq for years. That would make Iraq a giant oil power, second only to Saudi Arabia. If the estimates prove true, Iraq's potential would outstrip its other neighbor Iran, which sits atop about 136 billion barrels of oil. The IHS engineers examined 438 undrilled fields and used new technology to recalculate old reservoirs...