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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The attack killed six people, including Riyadh al-Samaraie, a well-respected Sunni leader who was key in helping reduce violence in his northern Baghdad neighborhood.
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.
Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to work or mix with men and are not to be seen walking around on the streets so, when filming in conservative districts of the Saudi city of Riyadh, al Mansour had to hide in a van.
On March 21st he dispatched his foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to ask the Saudis to back him.
For example, last week Saudi security forces raided al Qaida cells in Jeddah and Riyadh.
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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.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- Four people believed to be linked to the al Qaeda terrorist network have been detained in connection with last week's deadly terror attacks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Interior minister said.
The notice was released after authorities uncovered a cache of weapons and explosives in Riyadh that Saudi officials said was tied to al Qaeda.
Washington says it fears nuclear proliferation will eventually put an atomic bomb in the hands of Islamic militants like the al Qaeda group, which Washington says was behind the Riyadh attacks.
Mohammed al-Ayeeri was killed in a gun battle north of Riyadh in May.
According to an AFP source in Riyadh, in these brigades, under the flag of Al-Qaeda, are citizens of Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, and also Chechyna.
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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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