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...year era ended in Saudi Arabia Monday when King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud succumbed to his numerous ailments and died in a Riyadh hospital at the age of 84. Fahd effectively took the reins of power in 1975, serving as the de facto ruler under his brother King Khalid and then becoming King himself upon Khalid's death in 1982. Apart from Ibn Saud, the family patriarch who founded the country after conquering Arabian tribes, King Fahd has left a mark on the country-for better or worse-that no other ruler has rivaled...
...remembered as the great modernizer who was also a faithful servant of Islam; a pro-American leader who used the Kingdom's vast oil wealth to build schools, hospitals, roads and airports as well as to commission a vast reconstruction of Islam's holiest mosques in the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina. But many Saudis will also recall the Fahd era for the profligate lifestyle of many senior members of the royal family-and for the regime that ultimately needed the U.S. to save it from its neighbors, such as Iraq...
RESIGNED. PRINCE BANDAR BIN SULTAN, 56, after 22 years as Saudi Arabian ambassador to the U.S.; citing personal reasons. Some speculated that the Washington insider, whose access and influence earned him the nickname Top Gun among some government officials, is seeking a role in the Saudi government, perhaps as intelligence chief or as a national security adviser. He is succeeded by former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal, currently ambassador to Britain...
...ensure Sunni--and secular Shi'ite--participation in Iraq's governing coalition (perhaps even reaching out to former Baathists involved in the insurgency). A more focused intelligence effort is needed to root out the insurgency both within Iraq and among its supporters in neighboring countries--including "allies" like Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. It is long past time for the White House to stop fighting the press and the Democrats and figure out how to fight the war. There are, after all, oaths more important than those between reporters and sources. One is the oath between the Commander in Chief...
...plot, but a Pakistani official told Time that two British investigators traveled to Islamabad last week to check on his contacts and whether he went to the frontier region where Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, may be hiding. Working with Britain and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. froze bank accounts of the London-based Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, which is believed to be an al-Qaeda front. A huge fear among counterterrorism officials is that the London bombings may be part of a wave of attacks. French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard says French and Spanish...