As the violence escalated several Arab Gulf countries - including Saudi Arabia - decided to withdraw their observers.
There can be no guarantees that despotically governed Arab states--especially Saudi Arabia--would live up to their part of the bargain any more than they have in the past.
The fact that the Arabs - and particularly Saudi Arabia - had much stronger and longer economic and military ties to the apartheid regime than Israel is never mentioned.
America has blacklisted a handful, including, jointly with Saudi Arabia, Bosnian and Somali branches of the Saudi Arabia-based al-Haramain Islamic Foundation.
Sir William - now ambassador to Saudi Arabia - acknowledged that international support for the sanctions policy in place against Iraq since 1991 - which underpinned the policy of containment - was steadily breaking down at the time.
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Meanwhile, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is going to the Middle East early in the new year to drum up support from the so-called mainstream states -Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia - for stability in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories.
Rarely has the pressure to go along with such groupthink been greater than is increasingly the case with respect to the idea of relying on one or the other of our foes - Iran, Syria or Saudi Arabia - to solve our problems in Iraq.
As ever, foreign affairs issues are likely to occupy much time at the summit, and Berlusconi -- who has just returned from Saudi Arabia -- will be calling for backing for the Saudi Middle East peace plan, seen by some EU officials as the only game in town at present.
Before the ouster last year of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt sided with Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and Sunni-dominated Arabian Gulf States toward the isolation of Shiite-led Iran.
Another irony: like crude oil, a small number of countries--Russia, Iran, Qatar and Saudi Arabia--control the vast majority of the world's natural gas reserves.
It is commonly believed that they first appeared in religious seminaries - mostly paid for by money from Saudi Arabia - which preached a hard line from of Sunni Islam.
And Simon Murie, founder of niche tour operator Swimtrek, says the Strait of Hormuz (Oman-Iran), Gulf of Aqaba (Egypt-Saudi Arabia) and La Perouse Strait (Hokkaido, Japan - Sakhalin, Russia) are all waiting to be swum.
In his many writings he identified it, explained its roots -- including, most notably, Wahhabism as practiced and promoted by Saudi Arabia -- and warned of its plans to infiltrate and make war on the United States itself.
We are in consultation with the IEA and the oil-producing states -- of which Saudi Arabia is one -- about the unrest in the Middle East and the effect on oil prices.
Zebari acknowledged there have been attackers in Iraq from a range of countries -- Saudi Arabia, Gulf states, and North African countries, such as Tunisia and Morocco -- reflecting remarks made Friday to a House panel by Gen.
Over the course of the last 30 years, foreign sponsors -- namely Saudi Arabia, but including Iran and Libya -- backed by treasuries overflowing with petrodollars have systematically exported extremist interpretations of Islam to the African subcontinent, significantly corroding the region's temperate and progressive Islamic traditions.
About 1.5 million Sri Lankans work abroad -- nearly 400, 000 of them in Saudi Arabia alone -- because of their limited earning potential at home.
Other Arab states - including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Morocco, and Kuwait - will also see their regimes threatened or overthrown by radical forces operating under Iran's nuclear umbrella.
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The usual suspects -- led by Saudi Arabia, Iran and Libya -- have, over the last 40 years, gained a great deal of control over the Islamic message reaching sub-Saharan Muslim populations.
The Jeddah, Saudi Arabia-based OIC has been a contributor to CAIR, and the two have a history of coordinated meetings, methodologies and goals.
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Saudi Arabia's deputy consul was kidnapped in Yemen's southern port city of Aden Wednesday, two security officials there told CNN.
The Nepalese government says 58, 000 Nepalese women are working in these Gulf states -- Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Oman.
And universities in Asia--indeed, extending all the way to the Arab Gulf and the King Abdullah megaplex for science and technology in Saudi Arabia--are rising to offer an alternative.
Although the risk from Dubai is not systemically important on a global level, it is significant across the United Arab Emirates and the rest of Gulf Cooperation Council--Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar.
Worse yet, through his organization, the Middle East Policy Council, he has been a paid shill for Saudi Arabia - from whence millions of dollars have flowed to pay for Freeman's excuse-making for the Saudis.
And in terms of -- Saudi Arabia is an important partner and we are in regular contact at a variety of levels with the Saudi government, and I think that this is just part of that sort of continued contact.
While the princes occasionally grumble about the risks associated with a U.S. troop presence in Saudi Arabia--namely, bin Laden's demand that the House of Saud be deposed for hosting the infidels--the Saudis know they can't afford to lose the guarantee of U.S. protection.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that it appears that the maid's passport was falsified to give her age as 23 when she went to Saudi Arabia - other documents said to be genuine show that in fact she was only 17 and therefore a child.
It is therefore hardly surprising that the state faith of Saudi Arabia - Wahhabism - has become the most dynamic ideological strain of Islamism in Sub-Saharan Africa, given that the Ministry of Islamic Affairs reportedly receives more money for activity in Africa than does the Foreign Ministry.
After whatever it was he did with the King of Saudi Arabia -- (laughter) -- did he ask or does he know about The National Review report, that a 23-year-old Saudi Arabian woman has been sentenced to a year in jail and 100 lashes because, having been gang-raped and impregnated, she tried to obtain an abortion?
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