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Bombings,
Attacks at Riyadh Security Sites
[SUSRIS
Special Report - December 30, 2004]
Militants launched coordinated car bombings
and battled security forces in the Saudi
capital last night (Dec. 29) in attacks that
killed 10 people, caused oil prices to jump
and signaled that Islamic extremists are
keeping up their fight despite the kingdom's
crackdown on al-Qaida. A car bomb detonated
near the Interior Ministry in central Riyadh
-- killing a bystander, according to Saudi TV
-- was followed soon after by an explosion
when suicide attackers tried to bomb a troop
recruitment center.
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Al
Qaeda Shifts Its Strategy
in Saudi Arabia
By Craig
Whitlock
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - December 28, 2004]
While al Qaeda retains its primary goal of
eventually toppling the Saudi royal family --
as Osama bin Laden made clear in an audio
recording released Thursday -- an 18-month
campaign of car bombings, gun battles and
kidnappings has so far failed to generate many
new recruits and has resulted in a backlash
among many Saudis, even those who otherwise
are critical of the government, the officials
and experts said. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Writing
Congress -- A Concerned Citizen Speaks Out
[SAF Item
of Interest - December 21, 2004]
Dear Congressman:
I am a member of the military, who recently
returned from various locations in the Middle
East. I became very aware that Saudi Arabia is
a critical ally of the United States. I
understand that due to the misinformation put
out by our press, many people believe, without
research, that Saudi Arabia is our enemy.
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 The
Outlook For The World Oil Market
By John
Browne
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - December 19, 2004]
The price of Brent on the international market
has fluctuated over the last 12 months from
around $25/B a year ago to over $45/B for a
period in the autumn to just below $40/B
today. To understand the reasons for those
shifts, you have to look back at the events of
the last five years. What's changed and what
are the consequences of those changes?
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Forum
for the Future
[SUSRIS
News In Depth - December 17, 2004]
"... the
Forum for the Future hopes to provide a
setting for an informal, flexible, open and
inclusive dialogue, devoted to strengthening
democracy and the participation of civil
society, to developing skills training, and to
encouraging the growth of modern economies
that generate wealth and that are well
integrated into the global economy."
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Midnight
Inspirations
An Interview with Nimah Ismail Nawwab
Author of The Unfurling
[SAF Item of Interest - December 16, 2004]
"As a poet, one has an inner conviction
-- that of striking a delicate and subtle
balance in attempts to confront reality. Poets
usually avoid self-righteousness and pushing
their own views. Choosing current issues while
balancing the reality with our need to see
justice done, plus leaving the reader room to
think and to enjoy the sensation of reading
and interpreting images. All that has to be
interwoven in a poem.."
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Wahhabi
Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad
By
Natana J. DeLong-Bas
"Post-9/11,
many in the West have struggled to understand
the connection between Wahhabi beliefs and the
horrendous acts of terrorism that cased the
deaths of over three thousand civilians.
Fear and uncertainty about the
previously little known Wahhabis have led to
serious questions.
Does Wahhabism represent an ongoing
threat to the United States and American
interests?
Is Wahhabism monolithic?
Is it necessarily opposed to Western
civilization and values?
Can the United States safely have a
friendly and cooperative relationship with the
Wahhabi monarchy of Saudi Arabia.."
Excerpts from Chapter Five
Jihad: Call to Islam or Call to
Violence
[SAF
Book Serial - December 11, 2004]
[Complete
Item - HTML]
Excerpts from Chapter Four
Women and Wahhabis: In Defense of Women's
Rights
[SAF Book Serial - November 4, 2004]
[Complete
Item - HTML]
Excerpts
from Chapter One
Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab and the Origins of
Wahhabism: the Eighteenth-Century Context
[SAF Book Serial - October 21, 2004]
[Complete Item - HTML]
Introduction
[SAF Book Serial - October 9, 2004]
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Arab
Americans in Arizona:
Stories, Traditions, Experiences
An
Exhibit at the Mesa Southwest Museum
October 9, 2004 through April 17, 2005
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - December 10, 2004]
This exhibition explores the migrations of
Arabic-speaking peoples to Arizona since the
latter part of the 19th century, and examines
why different nationalities from the Middle
East chose to come to Arizona, whether they
were seeking new opportunities or escaping
hardships in their native lands.
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Honey
and Onions: A Life in Saudi Arabia
By Frances Meade
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - December 10, 2004]
There is an old Arabic proverb, yawm
'asl wa yawm basl; "one day honey;
one day onions,"
that is to me the universal description
of life. Certainly it characterizes my own and
I can't think of a more fitting title for a
book that invites the reader to share my life
in the Saudi Arabia of thirty years ago. That
those years and the ones that have followed
have been happy ones is self-evident; the
honey has been very sweet and the onions
surprisingly mild. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 A
Conversation With Frances Meade, Author of Honey
and Onions - A Life in Saudi Arabia
[SUSRIS
Interview Series - December 10, 2004]
"It was amazing to see the
transformation during those early years.. ..I
found the Saudis to be a pragmatic people.
They were really on the cusp of doing
something dramatic in terms of the development
of their own country and their own
society.." [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Letter
from Crown Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia to
President Johnson - January 5, 1964
[SUSRIS - History of US-Saudi Relations -
December 10, 2004]
I
share with Your Excellency the conviction that
the relations between our two countries and
peoples have not been confined to the mere
utterance of words. These relations have often
manifested themselves in deeds, facts and
achievements which have filled the long
history of relations between our
countries--that history whose foundations were
laid by his majesty, the late King 'Abd al-Aziz
and the late Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and
John F. Kennedy; it is a history which
continues to the present. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Attack
on U.S. Consulate General in Jeddah
James C. Oberwetter, U.S. Ambassador to
Saudi Arabia; Consul General Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
On-the-Record Briefing, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia -
December 7, 2004
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - December 10, 2004]
This morning I toured the facility with our
Consul General. While our gates were breached,
the Consulate stands and is in working order.
It should reopen for business within a few
days. Our investigation is now under way. As
President Bush said in comments yesterday,
"The war on terrorism goes on. It will
take time but the efforts are succeeding. It
will take time."
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Keeping
Cool about Jeddah
By
Anthony H. Cordesman
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - December 9, 2004]
The attack on the U.S. consulate in Jeddah
needs to be kept in careful perspective. It is
a tragic event. Innocent foreign employees
died, caught up in an attack on Americans.
Saudi security forces died protecting the
consulate, and some were wounded. It also,
however, is the kind of attack that the world
is going to have to get used to. No country
that is relatively open, where people move
freely into public buildings, and where
terrorists can make easy gains by attacking
such targets is going to be able to stop all
such attacks nor prevent some from being
successful.
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 A
Strong Relationship is the Only Path
Interview with Usamah Al-Kurdi
Part 1
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - December 9, 2004]
There is no doubt that the relationship is
going through some phase of re definition and
needs to be evaluated even further, especially
in light of the events in the past few years
after the 11th of September. What this phase
needs I think is an understanding from both
sides as to the importance of this
relationship again in regards to the interests
of the world and the interests of the Middle
East in particular. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Part
2
Political, Social and Economic Reform in Saudi
Arabia
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - December 15, 2004]
Reform has become a policy of Saudi Arabia --
no less than 10 years ago. Many people are
surprised to hear me say that. About 10 or 11
years ago, the first political reform steps
took place in Saudi Arabia when four decisions
where taken by the government. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Controversial
Libel Suit Won
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - December 8, 2004]
On Monday, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi
Arabia's ambassador to Britain, won a libel
suit against the French magazine, Paris Match,
and its publisher Hachette Filipacchi Associes.
An October 2003 article in the magazine
alleged that Prince Turki Al-Faisal had set up
Al Qaeda and was responsible for the 9/11
attacks on the United States. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Prince
Turki Al-Faisal's Views on Terrorist Attacks
and Bin Laden
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - December 7, 2004]
These people have managed to inflict
destruction and devastation in many countries
of the world -- in Spain, in Saudi Arabia, in
Morocco, in Indonesia, in Turkey, let alone
the September 11th attack on the United
States. So, one should be on guard about the
capabilities of these people and never
underestimate them because they have managed
to score some fantastic and very devilish and
bloody attacks worldwide. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 U.S.
Consulate, Jeddah Attacked
[SUSRIS Special Report #1 - December 6,
2004]
Three gunmen with suspected Al-Qaeda links who
attacked the
U.S.
consulate in Jeddah today were killed by
security forces, the Interior Ministry said.
These three were among the five who stormed
the consulate building in the morning. The
remaining two were arrested following a gun
battle. [Complete
Item - HTML]
[SUSRIS
Special Report #2 - December 7, 2004]
President Bush reacted to news of the attack
December 6, saying it is
a reminder that "terrorists are on the
move." During a joint appearance in
Washington with Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer,
Bush said these terrorists
want the U.S. presence in Saudi Arabia and
Iraq to end. "They want us to
grow timid and weary," he said, through
random killing of innocents. "And
that's why," he said, "the elections
in Iraq are very important." [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Saudi
Arabia: Economic, Oil And Mineral
Restructuring And Reforms
By Ali
Naimi
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - December 6, 2004]
The
outlook for economic reform and restructuring
is more promising than at any time in the
past. In this context, I would be remiss if I
did not highlight a related area which is
receiving special attention: it involves the
nurturing of our human resources through
intensive programs of education and training.
We intend to grow the Saudi professional
workforce which we will need for the future.
Therefore, we will increase the capacity by
more than 250% vocational centers and colleges
during the next seven years. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Meeting
between U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and
Crown Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia -
September 27, 1962
[SUSRIS - History of US-Saudi Relations -
December 4, 2004]
This
conversation took place during the Secretary's
delegation to the 17th session of the United
Nations General Assembly in New York in
September 1962. The subjects that were
discussed include Middle East problems,
U.S.-U.A.R. relations and Crown Prince
Faisal's Visit at the White House.*[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Saudi
Arabia's Plan for Changing Its Workforce
By Divya
Pakkiasamy, Migration Policy Institute
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - December 2, 2004]
Over
the last decade, the government has
prioritized "Saudization," an
initiative aiming to increase employment of
Saudi nationals across all sectors of the
domestic economy, reduce dependence on foreign
workers, and recapture and reinvest income
that would have otherwise flowed overseas as
remittances. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 "Never
Hate in Plurals": US-Saudi
People-to-People Relationships
Khaled Al
Maeena at the Hampton Roads World Affairs
Council
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - November 24, 2004]
We looked at America as a beacon of freedom to
help us and help our governments progress and
move ahead. Thousands and thousands of
students came, not because they had to but
because of choice. America offered in many
ways many things that were similar to our way
of life. Yes, we differed in many ways
culturally. Yes, there were different
attitudes and social mores, but in the basic
essence -- the belief in God, the family
values, the upward mobility -- these were
similar, these were the similarities in our
mode of thinking. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 America's
Need to Personalize the Enemy Is a Tough
Challenge for Saudis
By Abdulaziz Sager
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - November 23, 2004]
Over the past three years, the government and
the people of Saudi Arabia have topped the
list of "personalized enemies" who
allegedly pose a threat against Washington's
security and interests. Since the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks, a sustained smear campaign has
been unraveling in the U.S. in a bid to
project Saudi Arabia as the "key
enemy" of the American state and society.
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Rice
Moving Up To State - Background on the News
[SUSRIS
News In-Depth - November 19, 2004]
President Bush nominated Dr. Condoleezza Rice
on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 to become the
66th U.S. Secretary of State. Rice, Assistant
to the President for National Security Affairs
from 2001, will succeed Colin Powell, whose
resignation was made public a day earlier. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 President
Kennedy and King Saud Meeting - February 13,
1962
[SUSRIS - History of US-Saudi Relations -
November 19, 2004]
The
President expressed pleasure at the
opportunity to discuss with His Majesty some
of our concerns in the Middle East. He ask for
his views on the new regime in Syria and for
his assessment of developments in the U.A.R.
The King told the President he wished to speak
to him in all candor on the following subject
which had been bothering him: U.S. aid to
states which have pronounced leftist
tendencies and sympathize more with the Soviet
Union than with the U.S. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Myths
and Realities:
Saudi Arabia Re-examined
The New
Republic Symposium on Public Policy [Part
1]
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - November 18, 2004]
For generations, the United States'
relationship with the Saudis has been about
oil and military cooperation. It's been
conducted at elite levels, and our peoples
have known very little about each other. I
think Saudis in many ways considered
themselves almost adjunct American citizens
before 9/11. Thousands of them had vacation
homes in the United States. They've sent their
kids to school here. And, because they were no
threat to overstay their visas and take a job
away from an American worker, they had easy
access to visas to come to the United States.
September 11th changed all that. [Complete
Item - HTML]
[Part
2] Question and Answer Session
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - November 18, 2004]
Martin Peretz: Can I ask Ambassador
Jordan a question? When you would go to speak
to certain officials urging them to look at
the emerging evidence that terrorism was being
supported from Saudi Arabia, would there be
indifference, incredulity, or what?
Robert Jordan: No. The response was
uniformly one of sincerity and cooperation. At
the same time, they would say, give us names
and give us information, and we'll go round
these people up. Part of the problem we had --
and this is reflected in the 9/11 Commission
Report as well -- it is so incredibly
difficult to get those names. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 As
Fasting Ends, the Lessons of Ramadan Linger
By Faiza
Saleh Ambah
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - November 15, 2004]
Successful fasting means not only abstaining
from food, drink, and lust from dawn to dusk,
but also being honest, patient, and forgiving.
But, the one lesson that I'm still
striving to learn is balance. I pray that
though Ramadan is over, God remains a presence
in my life, not in grand gestures and
infrequently, but consistently and in small
doses.
[Complete
Item - HTML]
Waging
'Inner Jihad' on an Empty Stomach
By
Faiza Saleh Ambah
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - November 12,
2004]
[Complete
Item - HTML]
Halfway
through the Ramadan Fast
By Faiza Saleh Ambah
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - November 10,
2004]
[Complete
Item - HTML]
A
Month of Fast and Feast
By
Faiza Saleh Ambah
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - November 8,
2004]
[Complete
Item - HTML]
Enough
Faith to Fast?
By Faiza
Saleh Ambah
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - November 6, 2004]
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 U.S.-Saudi
Relations: Attitudes and Perspectives
Ambassador
Wyche Fowler Interview
[SUSRIS Interview Series - November 11,
2004]
"Going back all the way to President
Roosevelt, the Saudis demonstrated a strong
friendship with American administrations, be
they Republican or Democrat. They have worked
across party lines and political lines. They
have responded to the requests of the United
States' government in crisis, whether it be in
military security or energy stability. They
have sought to demonstrate that they see the
United States, and by extension our people, as
a firm and dependable friend.." [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Georgia
Exports to Saudi Arabia:
Coke, Innovation and Islam
By Grant
F. Smith
[SAF Essay #33 - November 9, 2004]
Saudi
Arabia's consumer market is clearly open to
both innovation and honest brand positioning.
Consumer market exporters in Georgia and
across America should consider how they can
"tune in" to core Islamic values and
other local factors inherent to the market.
They can demonstrate their role as
"solutions" rather than contributors
to regional problems to increasingly
sophisticated consumers. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 The
Way Forward: A Diplomat's Perspective
Remarks
by Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr.
13th Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference -
Washington, DC
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - November 3, 2004]
"Seven
weeks before elections in this country,
neither candidate is saying much, if anything,
about how he would address the very serious
problems he will confront at home and abroad,
including in the Middle East. Instead, the
parties are engaged in an embarrassingly
trivial debate.."
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Bush
on the Middle East, Energy Independence and
U.S.-Saudi Relations
[SUSRIS
News In Depth - November 1, 2004]
President Bush has been a vocal supporter of
Saudi Arabia's efforts in fighting the war on
terror and in the Kingdom's progress in the
area of political reform. He and members of
his administration have affirmed that Saudi
Arabia has been effectively going after
militants and extremists in its own country
following a series of terrorist attacks within
the Kingdom. They have also commented
positively on the announcement that the
Kingdom plans to hold the first of its
municipal elections in February 2005. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Kerry
on the Middle East, Energy Independence and
U.S.-Saudi Relations
[SUSRIS
News In Depth - November 1, 2004]
In campaign speeches and other venues, Sen.
Kerry has been aggressive in promoting his
belief that America needs an energy policy
independent of Middle Eastern oil and has
singled out Saudi Arabia in particular. He has
also questioned the Kingdom's commitment to
combat the war on terror. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Defining
Interests and a Changing Relationship
Ambassador
Chas Freeman Interview - Part I
[SUSRIS Interview Series - October 29, 2004]
"I think there is an enormous sense of
disappointment and frustration on the part of
America's friends in Saudi Arabia that the
relationship has not been restored to the
level of trust and mutual comfort that they
had hoped for.
In fact, in many ways, the relationship
is evolving away from familiar patterns."
[Complete
Item - HTML]
Part II
[SUSRIS Interview Series - October 29,
2004]
"A great deal of what is driving the
relationship on both sides is a negative image
of the other. There exist often ignorant and
uninformed stereotypical popular attitudes by
one side toward the other. I think a great
deal more has to be done by both sides to
educate the public in the other, and there's
room for cooperation between us to ensure that
our own public is educated by us." [Complete
Item - HTML]
The
Image Of Saudi Arabia
Conference participants face the challenge of
reversing the Kingdom's post-9/11 image
[SUSRIS News In-Depth - October 23, 2004]
Since the September 11 events, Saudi Arabia
has been facing strident media campaigns that
vied with one another to tarnish the Kingdom's
international image and tried to discredit its
values and institutions. This forum seeks to
study the situation of the Kingdom's image in
the world and work out strategies to project
its true image at political, media, cultural
and social levels inside and outside the
country. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Kerry
Allies Focus on Bush-Saudi Connection
By Dave
Eberhart, NewsMax.com
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - October 22, 2004]
It's been a frequent theme of the anti-Bush
forces for months now -- President Bush sold
out to the Saudis. Michael Moore in his
"Fahrenheit 9/11" made the charge
claiming that Bush even allowed possible Saudi
terrorist supporters to exit the U.S. in the
days after 9/11. But, that didn't stick when
it was discovered that National
Security aide Richard Clarke, who has been a
Bush critic since he left government, made the
decision to let the Saudis leave. Bush
was not even informed of the decision. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Choosing
Between Boilerplate and One Who Is
Prodigiously Insincere
By Sarah
Whalen
[SAF Item of Interest - October 20,
2004]
Bush is boilerplate. Kerry is prodigiously
insincere. What's a voter to do?
Kerry's "plan" for energy and
the
Middle East
just won't work. What will work? Sustained
high oil prices will eventually reduce oil
consumption. Despite many
Middle East
policy blunders, Bush has maintained
America
's relations with
Saudi Arabia
through trying times.
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Media,
Terrorism, and Reality
Remarks by Khaled al-Maeena
13th Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference
-Washington, DC
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - October 19, 2004]
"I'm not going to get into the blame
game. I
tell Saudis there is no such thing as the
'Western media.'
There is the American media, the
British media and so on.
We in the Arab world tend to put all
the blame on the 'Western media.'" [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Reform
and Terrorism in Saudi Arabia
A Roundtable Discussion with Amr Khashoggi
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - October 18, 2004]
Alsalam
alaykum
-- that means peace be upon you -- and
that is how Arabs greet anyone that they meet,
regardless of their ethnic, religious, or
gender background. Peace is an integral part
of our culture and traditions.. ..There
has been a lot of controversy surrounding the
interpretation of what terrorism is. How do
you define it? One person's characterization
of a terrorist may be another's freedom
fighter. Until there is a clear definition,
and it is reached globally, I do not think we
will be able to fight effectively this global
menace.
[Complete
Item - HTML]
Ramadan
Begins
[SUSRIS
News In Depth - October 15, 2004]
The holy month of Ramadan is a special month.
For over one billion Muslims worldwide,
it is a time of inner reflection and devotion
to God. It
is the month of fasting. Ramadan is special to
Muslims because it is during this time that
the fourth of the Five Pillars of Islam, Siam
Ramadan, is practiced. [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Intelligence
and Policy Formulation, Implementation and
Linkage: A Personal Perspective
Remarks by Raymond Close
13th Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference -
Washington, DC
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - October 14, 2004]
"On April 17, 1973, several months before
the Yom Kippur War.. ..I was informed
by my official Saudi intelligence
counterparts that Anwar Sadat had reached
his decision to begin preparing for a major
military assault across the Suez Canal.. ..only
a vigorous American peace initiative,
urgently undertaken, could avert a regional
Middle East war that would inevitably include
the imposition of an oil embargo.. ..as
usual, Washington paid no heed.. ..Washington
had again failed through arrogance and
ignorance to appreciate the significance of
the term " linkage." [Complete
Item - HTML]
 To
Cast Aside a Friend
Remarks
by Representative Randy "Duke"
Cunningham
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - October 13, 2004]
"There
has been a firestorm of criticism against
Saudi Arabia in the months since 9/11, and the
relationship between Saudi Arabia and the
United States has been condemned and vilified.
I believe Saudi Arabia remains a valuable ally
to the United States.."
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 Crossroads
in US-Saudi Relations
Jean-Francois
Seznec Interview
[SUSRIS Interview Series - October 8,
2004]
"I
think in many ways, our U.S. intervention in
Iraq and the policies of the present
administration, in particular on Palestine and
Israel, are really making us totally
irrelevant to the region. There's this
whole idea, this sort of sacred cow of the
U.S.-Saudi relationship that there is oil for
security. It's mighty iconoclastic in a way,
but I feel that the Saudis don't care about
our providing security to them. That's been
sort of part of the deal, but at this point,
my view is that they feel they can handle
their own security themselves better, thank
you very much.." [Complete
Item - HTML]
 U.S.
Commends Saudi Arabia for Combating Terrorist
Financing
Treasury's
Juan C. Zarate on global efforts to disrupt
money flows
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - October 6, 2004]
"As I have testified previously before
the House of Representatives, we have engaged
the Saudi Arabian government aggressively on
the need to take real actions to address the
threat of terrorist financing. Our engagement,
combined with the Saudi realization of the
real al Qaida threat to the Kingdom, has
produced important results and changes." [Complete
Item - HTML]
 Imperial
Over-Reach?
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
in the Arab East
Remarks by Dr. Michael Hudson
13th Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference
Washington, DC
September 13, 2004
[SUSRIS
Item of Interest - October 5, 2004]
"..I
don't believe that we are winning any of the
numerous wars we've recently engaged in since
9/11, whether it's the war on terrorism
itself, whether it's Afghanistan, whether it's
Iraq, whether it is the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, which make no mistake, we are
engaged in indirectly."
[Complete
Item - HTML]
 A
Vision of Peace in the Middle East
Randy
"Duke" Cunningham
[SUSRIS Item of Interest - October 1, 2004]
"..we need to help a
nation [Saudi Arabia] that is trying to
help us instead of bashing that nation.
In trade, in oil, they have always been
there.."
[Complete item - HTML]
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