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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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.
On March 21st he dispatched his foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to ask the Saudis to back him.
Saudi Arabia intensified its efforts to discredit al Qaeda after a wave of terrorist bombings in Riyadh in 2003.
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.
The notice was released after authorities uncovered a cache of weapons and explosives in Riyadh that Saudi officials said was tied to al Qaeda.
Mohammed al-Ayeeri was killed in a gun battle north of Riyadh in May.
One official said al-Adel "may have been a major player" in the Riyadh attacks.
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.
During the meeting, the official said, the Iranians said they had several al Qaeda operatives in custody, including one who might have coordinated the recent terrorist bombings in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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