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COUNTERSTRIKE 1818 to 1922 The Ottoman Empire and Egypt took back the land by 1818. But in 1902 Abdul Aziz ibn Saud led a Saudi resurgence, successfully uniting the different regions into one nation...
...Saudi Arabia is the world's No. 1 oil exporter and the leading supplier of crude oil to the U.S. It has onequarter of the world's proven oil reserves...
SOUTHERN PROVINCES 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers had Saudi citizenship. Eight of them were linked to towns in Baha and Asir provinces...
URBAN SCENE Saudi Arabia averages 32 people per sq. mi. (12 per sq km), but most of the population lives in the larger cities...
CLOSING BASES Since the first Gulf War, the U.S. has stationed about 5,000 troops in Saudi Arabia. Earlier this year the U.S. began pulling out, primarily to an expanded base in Qatar. Only a handful of U.S. personnel remain to wind down operations at Prince Sultan Air Base. A few hundred troops will stay to train Saudi soldiers...