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'To be honest, I've never been convinced that there was such a person as Osama bin Laden, ' said Osama al-Obeid, a Saudi banker.

Clinton said on Tuesday that she and other US officials had raised the matter "at the highest level of the Saudi government" .

Varia said the Saudi government had been debating several good labor reform proposals, but no action has been taken.

They never bother to ask the next question: what would Saudi Arabia do with the dollars?

and Pakistan is thought ready to supply a bomb in exchange for earlier Saudi backing of its own programme.

Correspondents say the case is one of a string of abuses by the religious police that have been exposed by the Saudi media.

Despite an intensive US-led manhunt, there has not been a credible lead on the Saudi-born al-Qaida leader in years.

And Saudi Arabian officials report that two of its border guards were killed when a gunman tried to force his way into Yemen.

Saudi Arabia needs to keep the world addicted to oil as long as possible, so giving it a breather with lower oil prices isn't a bad thing.

"It was perfectly set up to become a Saudi situation, " he said, referring to the oil-rich kingdom's reputation of stability.

Despite the fact that his stepfather was one of the finest men in Saudi Arabia, my father's life did not evolve as he wished.

OPEC works because Saudi Arabia is prepared to invest in, and carry the opportunity cost of, spare capacity .

Gueye said the company will sell much its Senegal-farmed rice in local markets, instead of exporting it all back to Saudi Arabia.

The fact that Saudi Arabia agreed to sit down with Israel at this meeting may hint that Bush is ready to act on that point.

With a fanfare and a military honor guard, Saudi Arabia welcomed the president of the United States.

The Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission did not say what services would be blocked.

Saudi Arabia, the biggest power in OPEC, is a close U. S. ally and is loath to see the group used as a forum to take shots at the West.

A Saudi prince murdered his servant in an attack which had a "sexual element" , the Old Bailey has heard.

Three Saudi writers complained that they were hustled off for interrogation after trying to get a novel signed by its female Saudi author.

To ask China to slam the door on Iran's energy exports is like asking America to do without Saudi oil, says Mr Berman.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack says the United States is ready to help Saudi Arabia fight threats from terrorist groups.

The Saudi response contrasts with that of the Central Bank of Bahrain, where banks owned by the two groups first defaulted.

Only Saudi Arabia is carrying out a large-scale investment programme to put in a significant increase in capacity.

AFTER two months convalescing in Saudi Arabia, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen's president, has announced that he is ready to go home.

Mr Obama was notably silent about Saudi Arabia, as though unable to chide so vital an ally for its patent lack of reforming zeal.

"So how much more does Saudi Arabia need to do to satisfy the people who are questioning our oil practices or our oil policy? " he asked.

He put a lot of work into a big speech in Cairo but a visit to the Saudi king was underprepared and he never visited Israel at all.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter, is so far the only OPEC member that has responded by saying it would pump more oil.

He declined to name the Saudi bank and said the deal would require approval from Swiss, Kuwaiti and Saudi authorities.

But he said he did not know whether Bush had spoken about oil prices with Saudi King Abdullah in their talks on Monday in Riyadh.

Some US lawmakers and a top Saudi official have said the emails undermine the science of climate change.

Despite saying it stands ready to produce more oil, Saudi Arabia has so far been reluctant to turn its stop cocks.

Saudi officials counter that Gezawi was trying to smuggle in vast quantities of a banned anti-anxiety medication.

But not in the case of one Saudi Arabian man who managed to live with his wife for three decades without setting eyes on her face.

But Saudi Arabia, Coll shows, is a place where the interests of rulers and revolutionaries are less easy to distinguish.

Mr. Obama said he had come to "the place where Islam began" to consult with the Saudi king on issues confronting the Middle East.

The woman was believed to have been a member of a well-off family visiting Venice from Saudi Arabia or a Gulf state.

It remains to be seen how much, if any, of the shortfall will be made up by increased production from Saudi Arabia and others.

Speaking earlier at a conference in London, Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi ambassador to the US, said the plot was criminal.

Saudi Arabia, the biggest employer, has hired only a few thousand workers since the start of the year.

In public, Opec officials maintain there is no need to increase output and Saudi oil officials have remained silent on the matter.

The SFO had been looking into allegations that the British firm BAE Systems bribed Saudi officials to help win the deal.

Mr. Hurd was speaking to Arab reporters in London on the eve of his visits to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

The complex is being constructed by the Bin Laden Group, a giant real estate firm, on behalf of the Saudi government, he said.

some of these pilots had flown for an airline in Saudi Arabia and received pilot training in the U. S.

In a move seen as an attempt to rein in the Mutawa, in February 2009, Saudi's King Abdullah replaced the head of the organisation.

He said his father's forces would align with radical Islamists against the rebels: "Libya will look like Saudi Arabia, like Iran. So what? "

We hope he made those points directly when he met Mr. Mubarak and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

At the other end of the scale, in Saudi Arabia and Indonesia, it was seen as a positive force by more than 90% of those questioned.

The Saudi Bin Laden Group (SBG), whose offer was the most attractive in terms of price, quality and schedule, was chosen for the project.

"It's not in the Saudi interest to have oversupply, given that it does serve their purpose to have oil at around the $125 mark, " he added.

If it proved necessary for Saudi Arabia to produce more, "then that will happen, there's no problem at all" , he added.

You see, the king of Saudi Arabia, also known as the Keeper of the Two Holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina, can visit the pope in the Vatican.

Massive lines snaked out from a theater as Jeddah residents queued up to see the new Saudi comedy "Manahi" .

The US might have drawn the line at Saudi Arabia, as Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, proposed.

As the organization's biggest member, much of the burden of managing all this rests on Saudi Arabia.

However, he said it's no secret the United States and Saudi Arabia work closely on terrorism.

George Kirkland of Chevron says if Saudi Arabia is all about oil, "Australia is all about gas. "

It won't happen, but I'd like to see Saudi Arabia going through this kind of citizens' revolt.

Saudi Oil Minister Ali Naimi 17, said that as the world's largest oil exporter Saudi Arabia was ready, ready to meet market demand.

Saudi Arabia can build out a chemical industry even if the prospects for making a profit are close to nil.

Such moves could challenge interests of the U. S. and Saudi Arabia and inflame sectarian tensions across the Middle East, they say.

There are rumors, however, that the U. S. asked Saudi Arabia to take the body (bin Laden was born there), but it allegedly refused.

"His decision will make it easy to solve the problem between Thailand and Saudi Arabia, " said Thailand's deputy prime minister, wishfully.

Both the Eurofighter Typhoon as well as the Tornado combat aircraft of the Saudi Air Force are to be equipped with IRIS-T missiles.

As Brennan knew bin Laden's relatives were still a prominent family in the Kingdom and Osama had once been a Saudi citizen.

There is no talk of democratizing Saudi Arabia or any of its autocratic neighbors friendly to the United States.

Allagany wants students to know about the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia which, he says, is not just about oil.

King Abdullah has also changed the head of the Saudi central bank and made a string of appointments elsewhere in the judiciary.

The word has gone around that the Saudi pavilion is the one to see.

There has been a construction boom, particularly in ethylene capacity, with plants planned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Qatar and China.

Saudi Arabia had been warning that crude oil demand towards the end of the year could be stronger than Opec's official projection.

From the outset, ministers, led by top exporter Saudi Arabia, said high oil prices of above $71 a barrel meant there was no need for action.

Obaid said the plans could benefit any of some 10 agriculture businesses in Saudi Arabia, including Savola, as well as individual investors.

Saudi Arabia became the world's top oil producer by tapping its vast reserves of easy-to-drill, high-quality light oil.

Bin Laden was forced to leave any cash he had when he in effect fled Saudi Arabia in 1991 for Pakistan and then Sudan.

'As someone who lives in a liberal, pro-woman world I thought I would find Saudi a very different place to be, ' Misch continues.

Osama bin Laden issues a fierce denunciation of the U. S. from his Saudi prison cell.

She said stereotypes were broken on both sides - especially in Saudi Arabia, where she met women who were fully wield veiled.

The restraint of Saudi Arabia, and of a handful of other countries of the Arabian Gulf, has propped up oil prices.

He said Saudi Arabia, OPEC's most influential member, wants the price of oil per barrel to be between $22 to $28.

Saudi Arabia is ending a lease for some of the vast storage facilities in the Caribbean it used to dispatch cargoes to US refineries.

She said stereotypes were broken on both sides - especially in Saudi Arabia , where she met women who were fully veiled .

However, no date has been set for the meeting, which would take place in Saudi Arabia.

However, the mother pointed out that the author of one of the pamphlets too was a prominent religious scholar in Saudi Arabia.

The Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan said the two sides recently had contacts in Saudi Arabia.

When explosives were accidentally set off in Riyadh in May 2003, say Saudi officials, security forces found a vast cache of weapons.

Last month, Saudi Arabia, which had also promised a ban, relented. No explanation was forthcoming then either.

Some said the gesture was particularly grating coming after Obama's bow to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah at a G20 meeting in April.

To attract these skills, it has turned itself into a country Westerners can enjoy, notes one Saudi onlooker.

"That figure is higher than the King of Saudi Arabia and the emir of Kuwait combined, " said the head of one Egyptian bank.

Saudi women remain veiled and segregated and are forbidden to drive or to obtain their own identity cards.

Twitter and Facebook have at times been used by activists inside Saudi Arabia to support campaigns there.

There has been a willingness; I gather that Karzai's brother met with either Mullah [Mohammed] Omar or his close aides in Saudi Arabia.

Can anyone tell what our policy toward Saudi Arabia will be as the result of the president's speech?

A Saudi envoy complained that this was "not an accident" .

Born in Kuwait, where he trained as an air-force pilot, Mr Sanea now heads the Saad group, an investment company based in Saudi Arabia.

After two years in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia, he was given asylum by the U. S.

On top of that and the extra Saudi and Iraqi crude, ship-loads of Iranian oil have been floating at sea for weeks awaiting buyers.

An anti government demonstrator in Bahrain raises a banner that reads "Get out" at the gate of the Saudi embassy in Manama, Bahrain.

In 2005 Saudi Arabia held elections (men only) for new local councils (though half the representatives were to be appointed, not elected).

She was hired by a Saudi diplomat directly from the Philippines to work in London .

It was only natural for mankind to exploit the cheapest energy sources first, such as easy-to-extract oil reserves under Saudi Arabia.

It would not normally benefit from the dwindling of China's reserves of labour any more than from the drying up of Saudi wells.

But this survey will argue that far from being a dinosaur nation, lumbering to extinction, Saudi Arabia is capable of rapid evolution.

Saudi Arabia has not yet decided whether to increase its own production, said the official.

Bahrain's disgruntled Shia majority was put back in its box, with a harsh Saudi hand.

Not to be outdone, Saudi Arabia plans to spend $15 billion to increase the size of its rail network nearly five-fold.

For weeks after the dictator Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia, which gave him asylum, members of his ruling party, the RCD, sowed chaos.

Saudi prince Faisal (see photo) said he is close to securing a 50% stake in the Liverpool Football Club.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia as the world's biggest water desalination producer, desalination 21% of the total amount of the world to the left.

The Saudi response to the recent knee-jerk buoyancy of oil futures was to hold prices and hope to work off brim-full inventories.

He longs for a democratic rebellion in Iran but fears such a rebellion in Saudi Arabia.

As it inveighs against Colonel Qaddafi, its Saudi allies have helped snuff out the flame of democracy in the Gulf state of Bahrain.

Saudi Arabia had rejected bin Laden's offer of mujahedeen help and subsequently kicked him out of the country for his radical views.

The land is owned by Alwaleed's Kingdom Agricultural Development Co. , which is part of his Saudi-listed Kingdom Holding investment vehicle.

Preaching global Wahhabi Islam has been a cardinal principle of Saudi foreign policy for almost half a century.

He said that Saudi Arabia hopes to develop sincere friendship and conduct all-round cooperation in all areas with China.

In a much-heralded breakthrough, Saudi Arabia recently elevated a woman to the post of deputy minister of education.

The Saudi Embassy in Washington said it had no comment on any arms sales.

But fitting Israeli equipment to a Saudi fighter is a nonstarter, so the British have opted to use the Damocles.

Moroccan women worried half in jest whether, as in Saudi Arabia, they would no longer be allowed to drive.

An arm of the Red Sea between the Sinai Peninsula and northwest Saudi Arabia. It has long been of strategic importance in the Middle East.

Saudi Arabia, in a slap at American efforts to defuse the crisis, dispatched troops to Bahrain to help crush the protesters.

Most examples of it are in Saudi, one of the most conservative of countries.

By 2011 it expects to produce 77m tonnes a year, providing half as much energy as Saudi Arabia's oil output.

Other large weapons agreements were reached between the United States and India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, South Korea and Brazil.

McCormack declined to discuss specific threats to Saudi facilities or whether the United States has received any requests to defend them.

Despite rising prices, Saudi Arabia has so far been reluctant to turn its stop cocks.

Wahhabi power therefore cuts right across King Abdullah's incremental reforms, which he sees as vital if the Saudi kingdom is to survive.

The Saudi regulator didn't mention whether it had reached a final agreement with RIM to address its national security concerns.

It is considered rude, for example, to ask a businessman from Saudi Arabia about his wife or children.

Although the U. S. venue wasn't as grand as those of the U. K. , Saudi Arabia or Germany, the U. S. corporate presence was extensive.

Mohammed bin Laden was a construction tycoon in Saudi Arabia and a part of the country's elite.

How ironic that the Saudi government is trying to do the same thing in reverse.

Mr. Obama will also meet in London with the leaders of China, India, Saudi Arabia and South Korea.

He said that the China Pavilion and Saudi Arabia Pavilion might reopen together.

I did some shameless queue-jumping of my own, using my media pass to have a look inside the Saudi pavilion.

It appears that June 17 is still set as the day that all Saudi women should drive cars in a protest against the driving ban.

On June 17th only a few score women actually got behind the wheel to protest against the unique Saudi ban on female drivers.

By Saudi standards, King Abdullah is a reformer; by any other standards, he moves exceedingly slowly.

The only sovereign Arabic nations currently existing consist of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.

The Arab uprising has at least touched the kingdom, with some demands for reform being voiced by Saudi Sunni elites.

Recently, Saudi Arabia agreed to nearly double the kingdom's exports to India, which already relies on Riyadh for a quarter of its oil.

These moves were combined with consistent pressure from Saudi officials behind the scenes regarding the need for the U.

Anecdotally, we can demonstrate that if poverty was the only factor, well Bin Laden is from one of the richest families in Saudi Arabia.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called "country codes" written in Arabic scripts.

Sighting the moon of Dhul-Hijjah carries no weight in other countries if it differs from that of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi oil experts said the kingdom was merely following the markets.

Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on a foray to Syria and Jordan Wednesday and is also due to visit Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Nothing at all do not drink, according to UN data, only residents of Bangladesh, Kuwait, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Somalia.

Even if a president said he would, no Egyptian or Saudi leader would believe him.

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to be flogged for breaking the country's ban on female drivers.

Mr. Musharraf's resignation capped days of secret talks that involved the army as well as Pakistan's key allies, Saudi Arabia and the U. S.

But Saudi spare capacity is not what it was: enough to make up for the loss of Libya, but not the loss of Libya and Algeria combined.

Ms. Rice flies to Jeddah late Saturday for the inaugural meeting of the U. S. -Saudi Arabian strategic dialogue.

The United States has welcomed the stated commitments of key Gulf allies including Saudi Arabia and Bahrain to set up embassies in Baghdad.

No one knew it at the time, but Saudi Arabia was set to become one of the richest and most influential countries in the world.

Ali Naimi, the veteran Saudi oil minister once described as Opec's de facto leader, denounced "one of the worst meetings we have ever had" .

Many players sat out the session due to the planned protests that are scheduled for the "Day of Rage" protests across Saudi Arabia.

This week, American officials accused Iran of being involved in a plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States.

Iranian officials have repeatedly complained, during the past year, that Amiri had been kidnapped while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia .

"As global demand has been picking up in the east . . . Saudi Arabia has been looking east. "

The Saudi regime has taken some steps to ease growing pressure from protests around the region, including neighboring Bahrain.

In the bottom "tier 3" (including American allies like Saudi Arabia) are those that are neither complying nor trying hard enough.

As long ago as 1996, U. S. officials noted that such unrestrained behavior could fuel a backlash against the Saudi elite.

The November 1996 cable -- entitled "Saudi Royal Wealth: Where do they get all that money? "

His political alliance has gradually weakened, and his main foreign backer, Saudi Arabia, has repaired its own strained ties with Syria.

The politics of energy mean the west and Saudi Arabia will remain locked in an embrace for the foreseeable future.

The International Energy Agency has over the last decade steadily cut its projection for Saudi oil production.

Among flags, which use religious symbols, Saudi Arabia's is one of the best-known.

Two stalwarts are still standing between the world's slumping economies and a steep drop in oil prices: China and Saudi Arabia.

"I don't want to see our food come from China, our oil come from Saudi Arabia and our manufacturing come from Europe and Asia, " he says.

Prince Saudi al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, rebuffed the idea, saying the Chinese did not need suggestions from Saudi Arabia.

The European refineries have struggled to make up for the production loss despite an increase from Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi government must be convinced that reform is in the kingdom's best interests, and Washington can help persuade it.

Unlike the anti-Soviet mujahideen, who were backed by America, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the Taliban have no superpower sponsor.

In the two decades since the farm job ended, he and two adult sons have tried in vain to reconnect the family to a Saudi paycheck.

The likelier prospect would be a long war that sucked in neighbours (Turkey, Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia are all candidates).

Then there are the oddballs; Saudi Arabia plans to set up a state fund to buy farmland in poor countries to meet rising food demand at home.

Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states and Russia lead the limited list of nations able to maintain or increase exports.

The proposed deal has the backing of the U. S. and Yemen's Arab neighbors including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

It is setting up in Saudi Arabia and trouncing the competition in Asia, outside of Japan.

Such sectarian undertones have been exploited by religious radicals, as well as governments, in Bahrain, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

Although Mougin initially received backing from a Saudi prince, experts told him that the project was too difficult and too expensive.

Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia moved into the bottom ten, while Libya and Vietnam moved up.

Saudi Arabia, which bans all political parties, also offers one of the world's most inhospitable environments for workers' movements.

Exports to Saudi Arabia have been rising but have not, so far, included heavy weaponry.

His father is Saudi and his mother is Ethiopian.

What about countries that have been strong allies but do not share all of our values, such as Bahrain, Morocco and Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia is also limiting capacity expansion but because of a self-imposed cap, not management challenges, like the other countries.

Iran could step up its involvement and produce a counter-push from Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states.

Formal political activity was banned in Saudi Arabia, so the Brotherhood-influenced teachers had to be careful.

Some doubt the constitutionality of his succession to Umaru Yar'Adua, who supposedly still lies gravely ill in a Saudi hospital.

Many here in Washington and in Sanaa see his trip to Saudi Arabia as an opportunity to ease Yemen's leader out of office.

The threat first arose in the U. A. E. , followed by Saudi Arabia. India, Tunisia and Lebanon all threatened to follow suit.

The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she supports a campaign by Saudi women to win the right to drive.

Saudi side was the consumer pay for training of personnel, including accommodation and transportation.

Rice slipped into Iraq from Saudi Arabia, where she was accompanying President Bush on his Mideast tour.

The only country with significant spare capacity, Saudi Arabia will now raise output unilaterally.

The Saudi-American relationship has deteriorated sharply since the Egyptian revolution.

Saudi Arabia has helped stabilize world energy markets by raising its crude production levels to make up for Libya's lost supply.

Canada has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the top supplier amid aggressive investment in its tar sands region.

A peaceful transition to a more liberal political system in Saudi Arabia would clearly not breach the Carter doctrine.

Yemen's president was wounded by an explosion in June and remains in Saudi Arabia, recovering.

This will be as much of a relief to the Saudi regime as to that in Manama.

The history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is less than one century, and the range of the king succession is limited to Aziz Family.

Meanwhile, the reserves of Algeria and Saudi Arabia presently cover more than two years' worth of imports of goods and services.

Amid the Iraq victory, Saudi Arabia was almost overlooked, but left the tournament as worthy finalists.

Since then it has significantly diversified its sources, importing large quantities from Sudan, Iran, Russia, Angola and Saudi Arabia.

Financially, it is a hub for international business deals and a reasonable flight for rich Saudi princes and wealthy Russian oligarchs.

As a crustily conservative minister of the interior for the past 35 years he has not endeared himself to Saudi reformers and professionals.

There has also been tension over Saudi support for religious schools that teach what critics consider an extreme form of Islam.

If Saudi Arabia remains such a conundrum, the Saudis themselves are partly to blame.

Saudi Arabia said in 2008 it would cut domestic wheat output by 12. 5% a year to save its water supplies.

And, very quietly, the C. I. A. began to build its own drone base in Saudi Arabia.

And Saudi Arabia, the only country with much spare capacity, has promised to ensure that the world has adequate supplies.

This is a major problem because Saudi Arabia is about to see its population explode.

Oil is trading at about $70 a barrel, very close to where Saudi Arabia and the Opec oil cartel want it to be.

Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt would also be gratified by the clipping of Iranian wings, though they dare not say so openly.

The first floor of the pavilion is a garden with both Chinese and Saudi trees growing, a symbol of the friendship between the two nations.

Standing beside those women is less than our duty. Saudi women should carry out their duty and sign their names here in their support.

The top remittance sending countries in 2009 were the United States, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Russia, and Germany.

Women with attractive eyes may be forced to cover them up under Saudi Arabia's latest repressive measure, it was reported yesterday.

Even as growth slows from Saudi Arabia and other big producers, other regions around the world may pick up the slack.

These moves renew concern among some people about efforts by the UAE and Saudi Arabia to control the flow of information.

Iran and Venezuela had pushed for Opec to move away from the dollar in the face of strong opposition from the summit's host, Saudi Arabia.

And a Harvard study found that the Saudi Government blocked many web pages about Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and even Islam.

Saudi schools in countries including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Turkey all use similar textbooks.

The Saudi government also delayed the relocation of thousands of people along the planned route, pushing back timeliness.

However, analysts said that Saudi crude was of lower quality than Libya's, leading to the possibility of a run on high-grade oil.

He also underscored the close partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia.

There have been rumours of a merger with Saudi Investment Bank, although Mr Yousif has denied this.

Bad as it looks, the sale of Leopards to Saudi Arabia does not threaten the Middle East's nascent democracy movements, Mr Linnenkamp argues.

But are exported to the United States, Australia, and South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and other countries, and by the exotic places.

The sky in Saudi desert is much higher and clearer in this silent night, hiding inside the clouds indistinctly.

Illiterate young men from rural Pakistan fly into Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, their passports signed with a thumbprint.

Piracy has been rampant near the Somalia coast, and a Saudi supertanker carrying $100m of oil was hijacked there last week.

In 2003, the Saudi prince did not hesitate to throw A Sude $ 220 million purchase of a Boeing 747-400, and turn it into their flight palace.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, has more than enough spare production capacity to make up for any lost supply in Libya.

And in recent weeks, the long-serving princes who headed the Saudi navy and air force were replaced by professional soldiers.

For the past three years, al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia appears to have become increasingly fragmented, with no clear leadership or methodology.

Yemen's defense ministry says that three al-Qaida militants have been captured along the border with Saudi Arabia.

Presidential spokesman made the announcement Wednesday, after Mr. Yar'Adua returned to the country from three months in a Saudi hospital.

Watch out for headlines from Saudi Arabia's "Day of Rage" , which may precipitate a reversal in oil prices.

Saudi nationals, the most famous being Osama bin Laden, continue to be implicated in terrorist attacks abroad, most notably in Iraq.

Saudi Arabia , Oman and Qatar also have no restrictions on capital movements imposed on their nationals .

It is reported that RIM has agreed to put servers inside Saudi territory, which would of course be under Saudi jurisdiction.

India, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, South Korea and Brazil also reached weapons deals with the United States, the Times said.

Gulf countries, including Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have banned restaurants from operating during the day throughout Ramadan.