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Bush assuaged Abdullah's concerns, but Sept. 11 raised tensions anew. U.S. grumbling about a lack of Saudi cooperation in the war on terrorism quickly escalated into calls in Congress for Washington to consider reducing its presence at the Prince Sultan Air Base (P-SAB in military jargon), where the U.S. has 6,000 Air Force personnel patrolling Iraqi skies. The problem was initial Saudi hesitation in allowing the Pentagon to use a new U.S.-built command-and-control center at P-SAB to conduct the drive against bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan. Known as the Combined...
...helpful, informing Americans on its website that the kingdom is “providing assistance in the military, diplomatic, and financial arenas.” But this is only partly true. Militarily, the Saudis did reluctantly allow the US to run the air war over Afghanistan from Prince Sultan airbase near Riyadh. Financially, the Saudis finally froze some of the assets of suspected terrorists on the UN watch list...
...spreads really fast, and though it doesn’t crash the computer’s hard drive, it might have some serious side effects which we’re still not completely sure about,” said Muhammed H. Sultan ’05, a Harvard University Arts and Sciences Computing Services user-assistant...
...Many people contacted us, and we helped them download the McAfee patch to get rid of the virus,” Sultan said...
...Going Once Display of garish wealth or shopping opportunity of the century? Call it what you will, but the auction in Brunei to help pay off the massive debts of the Sultan's naughty playboy brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, was the tackiest display of useless extravagance ever assembled. If your shopping list included gold-plated toilet-brush holders, 8,500 slabs of Italian marble and an attack-helicopter simulator, you were in luck. The citizens of Brunei were not: in a victory for good taste, the auction raised a paltry $8 million...