Many Saudi observers took note earlier this month when one of the kingdom's best-selling dailies, Al-Riyadh, devoted a long article to exploring how to implement a lifting of the driving ban.

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On March 21st he dispatched his foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to ask the Saudis to back him.

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Lawyer Riyadh Al-Balushi told me the law is ambiguous.

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International diplomat Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan "failed from day one and is now meaningless for the Syrian people, " Riyadh al-Shaqfa, leader of the opposition Syrian Muslim Brotherhood party, said in a speech at a party conference in Istanbul on Monday.

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Besides forcing the Saudis to admit that extremist groups such as al-Qaeda were in their midst, the Riyadh bombings also caused the local population to rethink their view of fundamentalist militancy.

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Mohammed al-Ayeeri was killed in a gun battle north of Riyadh in May.

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One official said al-Adel "may have been a major player" in the Riyadh attacks.

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At the request of the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers traveled to Riyadh in 2006 to meet with King Abdullah, other Saudi officials and the al-Turki family to discuss the case.

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The Dubai-based Al-Arabiya channel showed people gathered to watch on location from major Arab capitals gauging reaction from Beirut, Baghdad and Riyadh.

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