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...their leader as the Muslim Mahdi or Messiah. Saudi officials later confirmed that although some of the intruders were indeed religious zealots, the majority were politically motivated guerrillas who were trying to destabilize the country. Some Saudis believe that the armed men may have been trained in South Yemen, the Marxist state at the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Their real leader, according to Saudi officials, was an Islamic nationalist named Juhaman Otabi, who had once worked for the government but had been dismissed and flogged for drinking liquor...
...were finally routed from the mosque's catacomb-like basement last week, but not before the incident had shaken the House of Saud to its sandy foundations. Most authorities are now convinced that the group, which numbered between 200 and 300, was trained and armed in Marxist South Yemen, and that the tab for the venture was picked up by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi. The Saudis also claimed that the young leader of the group, Mohammed al-Quraishi, a theology student who called himself the Muslim Mahdi (Messiah), had been killed in the fighting. A Saudi official declared last...
...were predominantly Saudis, probably members of the nomadic 'Utaibah tribe and several other tribal groups. Many were thought to belong to a fundamentalist sect that had previously agitated against TV, radio and women's rights. Yet it was clear that they were well trained, probably in South Yemen, and that the operation had been well planned. Said one Western intelligence official in the Middle East: "This was a direct attack against the House of Saud. You can be sure that the end of the battle of the Sacred Mosque is not the last we will hear of trouble...
...aimed at pressuring Western European parliaments, but this time with both carrot and stick. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who last week dispelled rumors that he was gravely ill by appearing in public for the first time in 16 days (he showed up at a Moscow airport to welcome South Yemen's President), made ample use of both when he first launched the Soviet pitch in East Berlin on Oct. 6. On the one hand, he warned that if NATO carried out its ''dangerous'' plan, the Warsaw Pact would have to ''take necessary extra...
...principal example. The best examples of unrestrained Soviet conduct, in which they create the opportunity rather than simply reaping the harvest of our failure, are the dispatch of Cuban proxy forces to Angola and Ethiopia, the two invasions of Zaire from Angola, the Communist coups in South Yemen and Afghanistan, and the Soviet friendship treaty with Viet Nam just prior to Viet Nam's occupation of Cambodia. Also, there's the establishment of Soviet bases in Viet Nam and military depots in Ethiopia and Libya, the dispatch of air forces to Cuba to fly air defense missions...