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...Right now, the most significant opposition to the regimes of Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia comes not from secular Western-oriented democrats, but from Islamists, radical and moderate. Egypt may be a pro-U.S. regime at peace with Israel; Syria has a more troubled relationship with Washington, cooperating against al-Qaeda, but less so in Iraq, while openly defying the Bush Administration on Lebanon and technically still at war with Israel, which occupies Syrian territory on the Golan Heights. But if truly democratic elections were held in both places today, the smart money would be on the Muslim...
Hariri, who built up a large fortune in Saudi Arabia, established the Hariri Foundation in 1979 to support Lebanese scholars, including students at the KSG. He also instituted the Rafiq Hariri Professorship of International Political Economy...
...safe bet that the Abu Ali case never will. The U.S. first got wind of him in the spring of 2003, when close to 70 FBI agents from the Washington field office went to Saudi Arabia to help investigate bombings in Riyadh that killed 34 people, including nine Americans. This time the Saudis were more willing than in previous joint operations to share with their American counterparts evidence from the interrogations of hundreds of suspects rounded up after the attacks. As it turned out, the indictment alleges, two of the most sought-after suspects in that case met with...
...could any student, like Abu Ali, who attended the controversial Islamic Saudi Academy (I.S.A.) in northern Virginia while growing up. The eldest of five children, Abu Ali was born in Houston in 1981, but by the time he was 3, his family had settled in suburban Virginia, a short commute from his father's job as a computer systems analyst at the Saudi embassy in Washington. In many ways, young Abu Ali had a fairly typical American upbringing, playing soccer, tutoring other kids, passionately cheering on the Washington Redskins and even dreaming of one day becoming President...
What may have changed his dreams were the years Abu Ali spent at I.S.A., a school set up by the Saudi government in 1984 for children of its diplomats and eventually open to Muslims of all nationalities. The school insists it does not teach intolerance, but many of the religious textbooks once used there had the markings of the Saudi brand of fundamentalist Islam. It was enough to launch Abu Ali on a career in Islamic studies that eventually led him to Saudi Arabia, where he enrolled at a school known for having turned out several militants. Still, his former...