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This was key. Arafat is not just the man who refused to make peace with Israel--Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., has called Arafat's rejection of Israel's peace offer in 2000-01 not just "a tragedy" but "a crime"--he is the man who uses his power to make sure that no one else can make peace with Israel. By demanding new leadership, the Bush Administration was grounding future Middle East diplomacy in realism. Axiom A: Allowing Israel to fight the terrorism would reduce the terrorism. Axiom B: Shunning and thus diminishing Arafat...
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...
...Prince's bin Laden--related troubles may not be over, and not only because the terrorist leader is still gunning for his family. Sultan is one of scores of defendants in a $1 trillion lawsuit brought by relatives of those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The plaintiffs allege that Sultan made 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...
...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...
...Operation Iraqi Freedom had brought an additional 20-25,000 U.S. troops into Saudi over the past few months, and those are obviously no longer needed. Also, the changed landscape of the region means that a facility of the scale of Prince Sultan airbase, from which it was possible to direct thousands of simultaneous air operations, is no longer required. The duplicate facility built in Qatar for the current conflict, which is more state-of-the-art and also more portable, is more than adequate for the new situation...