Word: sultanic
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...blindly, scared to turn on anything that emits radiation and might trigger a U.S. missile strike. "They're so petrified, they won't even turn on their microwave ovens," says Captain "Blade" Wilkins, an F-15 pilot who patrolled the southern no-fly zone from Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan air base last week. (Like many at the base, he masks his identity by using his call sign instead of his first name...
...July 6, 1917, Lawrence led his combined armies to victory at Aqaba, taking the town from the Turks?a key battle in the Arab revolt. Today, only the 15th century fort, built by the Mamluk sultan Qansweh al-Ghuri, hints at Aqaba's early history. The fort has always been the symbolic heart of Aqaba and, when it fell to his troops, Lawrence knew he had completed his journey to victory. For those on the tour, too, Aqaba is the final destination, complete with a celebratory open-air feast in the fort's courtyard, the sound of battle cries replaced...
...tough arguments he has to make; they are less about what Saddam has than about who he is and what he purportedly wants. To help make the case, the White House is working hard to track down one graphic exhibit: a video, which Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan has told Bush about, that is said to show Saddam presiding over the execution of political opponents...
...Saudis approved Pentagon use of the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC), a multibillion-dollar U.S.-built facility at the Prince Sultan base, to direct the air war against the Taliban but did not offer to allow American bombers to fly combat missions from Saudi bases. If the Administration expected more from the Saudis, it didn't ask for it. On sensitive internal matters--such as the radical indoctrination of schoolchildren by the Wahhabists--the U.S. has not pressured the royal family directly. "There has been no table pounding," admits a senior U.S. official. "When the Saudis get hectored about reform...
...DIED. PRINCE AHMED BIN SALMAN, 43, nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and a publishing and horse-racing magnate who owned War Emblem, this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner; of a heart attack; in Riyadh. In a double blow to the royal family, Prince Sultan bin Faisal, 41, a cousin of Bin Salman's, was killed in a car crash on the way to the funeral...