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...grabbed Zubaydah in Pakistan and has kept him locked up in a secret location ever since. His name has probably faded from most memories. It's about to get back in the news. A new book by Gerald Posner says Zubaydah has made startling revelations about secret connections linking Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and bin Laden...
...INDICATORS Opening Time The European Union signed a bilateral trade agreement with Saudi Arabia, advancing the kingdom's bid for membership in the World Trade Organization. The deal cuts Saudi import tariffs on E.U. industrial and agricultural products, and throws open lucrative service sectors to the Saudis' main trading partner...
...radicals must strike in Iraq, the newest "field of jihad." That phrase, redolent of Scripture, is actually a modern coinage to refer to a theater of operations for the Islamist insurgency. There are many: the U.S. and Europe have emerged as central fields of jihad, along with Egypt, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Kashmir, Indonesia and others. The extremists will fight and die to evict "infidel" forces from those places, including any Muslim government they consider apostate...
...time when tensions between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia were flaring in public, President Bush was busy behind the scenes building a new antiterrorist task force with the kingdom's rulers. The plan started as Bush was refusing to release 28 pages of the 9/11 congressional report made public in July--pages that allegedly detail how financial networks in Saudi Arabia have funded terrorism. He argued that releasing them would "help the enemy" by revealing how U.S. intelligence gathers information...
That did not go over well in Riyadh--or with Saudi critics in the U.S. The Saudis demanded that the material be released to make it clear that, as Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal put it, "We have nothing to hide." Sources tell TIME that around the time Bush decided to withhold the 28 pages, he telephoned Crown Prince Abdullah and had a cordial chat with the de facto Saudi ruler. Bush brushed aside the controversy and, wanting the two countries to move forward, told Abdullah he would send advisers to discuss the purported financial networks. Abdullah received Bush...