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HANDS ON Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch is the Administration clubhouse. Vladimir Putin of Russia and Mexico's Vicente Fox have visited, but it was Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, now King, right, who last year got the warmest touch. Most guests settle for a ride in Bush's pickup...
...supplies. Russia lost much of its global clout with the dissolution of the Soviet Union 15 years ago, but after successfully reversing a production slump in the early 1990s, it has re-emerged as an energy superpower. Last year it was the world's second largest oil producer after Saudi Arabia. In gas, it is the undisputed world leader, with proven reserves almost double those of second-place Iran. For the rest of the world, that spells a welcome opportunity. Europe has long relied on Russia to fill its growing energy demands, and in the aftermath of Sept. 11, many...
...head of the Russia department at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin, says German dependence on Russian energy supplies will increase, in part because of a growing belief that Russia "is the best alternative to the Middle East. If something happens in Saudi Arabia we are powerless. But Russia is cooperative in many cases. Europe has considerable influence on Russia." Ambiguity To an extent, there's some hypocrisy in Western fears about Russia's energy sector. Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies notes, for example, that the national energy companies in France...
Imagine a blueprint for a paint-can-like device spewing hydrogen-cyanide gas gleaned from a computer in Saudi Arabia. Virulent anthrax developed by terrorists in Afghanistan. Most fearful of all, a fateful campfire meeting outside the Kandahar, Afghanistan, where al Qaeda leaders met secretly with a senior Pakistani weapons experts to discuss making al-Qaeda the first nuclear-armed terrorists in history. That's the witch's brew of what the experts call NBC - nuclear, biological and chemical - weapons. It's the terrorists' trifecta and the scary spine of Ron Suskind's new book, The One Percent Doctrine: Deep...
Events were being monitored by the hour inside the CIA. "Owning Iraq," a country in confusion, with its oil wells shut down, was one matter. The overthrow of Saudi Arabia - the true nexus of oil and Allah, producer of 25% of the world's exported petroleum and, by some U.S. estimates, nearly all of the world's most far-reaching terrorism - was entirely another. At a 5 p.m. meeting in mid-May, the CIA's top management huddled. Tenet, that morning, had been grilled by Cheney about the status of the CIA's investigation of the reputed mubtakkar cell...