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...decide" rhetoric wasn't going over very well against former CIA Director Jim Woolsey's argument that, as a matter of national security, the U.S. government should support hybrid technology and alternative fuels. Taylor actually proposed that the poverty and dissatisfaction such a policy might cause in places like Saudi Arabia might create more terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Klein: How the GOP Lost Its Way | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...conference room of an elegant mansion that once belonged to the Rothschild family, government representatives from more than 30 countries listened skeptically as British officials explained why they had dropped a high-profile bribery investigation into $80 billion in British contracts to supply military aircraft and other equipment to Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Endless Cycle Of Corruption | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...closed session, according to several people familiar with the proceedings, the British officials sketched out details of the case: the Serious Fraud Office (sfo) had uncovered various strands of alleged corruption at BAE Systems, a U.K. defense contractor, including one that allegedly involved a member of the Saudi royal family. (The company denies any wrongdoing.) But, the officials continued, the fraud office's director in London had decided to discontinue the investigation after several meetings with the British ambassador in Saudi Arabia . The reason given: national security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Endless Cycle Of Corruption | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...away from the orbit of the United States and keep it at the forefront of the struggle against Israel. The anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, which forms the backbone of the government and includes the Sunnis, has seized upon the support of the West and its Arab allies such as Saudi Arabia to break Syria's grip on Lebanon. Damascus was forced to withdraw its troops from Lebnaon following the February 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri, a former premier, whose death many Lebanese blame on the Syrian regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Cool Beirut's Sectarian Rage | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...political heir. The tension between the two camps also mirrors the broader Shi'ite-Sunni political rift throughout the Arab world that has been rekindled by the Iraq conflict. The chief protagonists in this new "cold war," as some analysts describe it, are Shi'ite Iran and Saudi Arabia, the leader of the Sunni Arab world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Cool Beirut's Sectarian Rage | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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