King Abdullah is highly mindful of the fact that jihadists who had gone to Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s had filtered back and created a homegrown militant network, using their military expertise to train anewgeneration who then went on to attack not just Westerners in the kingdom but the Saudi royal family itself.
Virgina-based Iridium is almost halfway through a multi-year plan to replace its low-earth orbit network of communication satellites with a powerful newgeneration.