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...Starbucks, I'll bite you." KHALED AL-MAEENA, editor of an English-language newspaper in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, quoting his U.S.-educated daughter to illustrate the rising anti-American sentiment in his country...
...Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz must have privately cheered last week after the U.S. announced that thousands of its troops stationed in his country would soon be gone. Their posting has long been a prickly political matter for the Saudis and has provided a fat target for al-Qaeda's propaganda. Osama bin Laden considered the foreign military presence sacrilegious and made the removal of U.S. soldiers a central objective of his holy war against the West...
...large donations to Islamic charities that supported the Sept. 11 hijackers. Sultan's attorneys at the law firm Baker Botts, where former Secretary of State James Baker is partner, counter that Sultan's contributions came from government coffers and were disbursed by the Prince in his role as a Saudi official. If the latter is proved, say his attorneys, the Prince would be shielded from legal action under...
...situation is not so clear cut. The al Sauds are often accused of running their country like a family business, controlling virtually every official post. Separating private contributions from official ones may prove difficult. A review of Saudi official declarations by TIME revealed half a dozen references to Sultan's donations as being "personal." The Saudi Press Agency, a wing of the Ministry of Information, lists $266,000 donated by Sultan to the International Islamic Relief Organization as a "personal" contribution. U.S. and Canadian authorities say they have linked this charity to terrorism. This tie could prove troublesome to Sultan...
...Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay so that a lower court could examine attorneys’ claims that he is mentally retarded. Juvenile offenders are another well-represented demographic on death row, and they remain eligible for execution only in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and the United States. The U.S. accounts for over half of the executions of juvenile offenders worldwide. On April 3, Scott A. Hain, who murdered at 17, was put to death in Oklahoma...