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SAUDI-US RELATIONS INFORMATION SERVICE
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE - ISSUE 23September
8-14, 2003
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#23 |
September 8-14,
2003
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King
Fahd and President Ronald
Reagan at the White House in
February 1985.
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Essays/Items of Interest:
"Flogging
the Arabs? The 2004
U.S. Presidential Election
and the Middle East,"
by David T. Dumke
"Whither
Saudi Arabia? Three
Authors Try to Penetrate a
Middle East Enigma," by
David Long
"At
Your Service: Future
U.S. Service Exports to
Saudi Arabia," by Grant
F. Smith
"Saudi
Arabia: Current Issues
and U.S. Relations," by
Alfred B. Prados,
Congressional Research
Service
"The
Crucibles: 9/11,
Afghanistan and the
Fashioning of a Foe [Part
II]," by Gregory J. H.
Dowling
"On
Terrorism, Methodism, Saudi
'Wahhabism,' and the
Censored 9-11 Report,"
by Gary Leupp
"Saudis
Reject Bin Laden and
Terrorism," by Dr.
James J. Zogby
"Saudi
Government Counterterrorism
- Counter Extremism
Actions," by Anthony H.
Cordesman
"The
Crucibles: 9/11,
Afghanistan and the
Fashioning of a Foe [Part
I]," by Gregory J. H.
Dowling
"Internet
May Lubricate Politics and
Economies in Arab
World," by Jim Landers
"Common
Enemy: U.S. and Saudi
Arabia Unite Against
Terrorists," by John
Duke Anthony
"Getting
Back on Track: Saudi
Study in the U.S.," by
Grant F. Smith
"Saudi
Arabia: A Relationship
in Transition," by Hugh
Renfro
"The
Children of Saudi-American
Marriages," by
Muddassir H. Siddiqui
"Tribal
Traditions and Modern
Culture: A Review of The
Belt," by Isabel
Cutler
"Imagined
Kingdoms: Islamic
Militancy and Opposition in
Saudi Arabia," by
Gregory J. H. Dowling
"Winds
of Change," by Massoud
Derhally
"Pumping
Up Online Resources to Fuel
Saudi-U.S. Relations,"
by Molouk Y. Ba-Isa
"Remember
Khobar Towers," by
Louis J. Freeh
"Saudi
Arabia: Don't Let Bin
Laden Win!," by Anthony
Cordesman
"The
Approaching Turning Point:
The Future of U.S. Relations
with the Gulf States,"
by F. Gregory Gause, III
"In
the Eye of Yet Another
Storm: US-Saudi Relations
and the Iraq Campaign,"
by Gregory J.H. Dowling
"Saudi
Arabia: Winds of Change in
the Desert," by Sandra
Mackey
"US-Saudi
Ties Prove Crucial in
War," by Michael Dobbs
"The
Prince," by Elsa Walsh
"Baer's
'Fall of the House of Saud'
and the Stakeholders in the
Saudi-American
Relationship," by Kevin
Taecker
"Wahhabism:
A Christmas Eve Talk,"
by Abdalla Musa Tayer
Mohammed
"Myths
and Realities About
Unemployment in Saudi Arabia,"
by Kevin Taecker
"Saudi
Arabs, Americans and Oil,"
by Robert L. Norberg
"The
Role of the Extended Family
in Saudi Arabia," by
David E. Long
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| AN
INTERVIEW FROM THE SAUDI-AMERICAN-FORUM |
Interview
with
Ambassador
Chas W.
Freeman
Part
I - A
Relationship
in
Transition
-- And
Then
9/11 |
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"...the
relationship is
in great
difficulty. I
would say that
the last two
years, as we
mark the
anniversary of
September 11th,
have seen a
major
deterioration in
the atmosphere
and tone of the
U.S.-Saudi
relations
broadly written,
even as the two
governments have
continued a
fairly cordial
and cooperative
relationship..."
"The
irony is that
both Washington
and Riyadh have
ended up
defending the
value of the
relationship and
the quality of
the relationship
against,
frankly, often
very ignorant
and uninformed,
but malicious
attacks from
their own
publics. So you
have the two
governments each
confronting an
atmosphere
domestically,
which is
increasingly
skeptical or
actively hostile
to the
relationship and
to the other
country..."
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| AN
ITEM OF
INTEREST
FROM SUSRIS |
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Saudi
Officials
Take on
Challenges
in the
Media
Prince
Saud
Al-Faisal
and
Prince
Turki
Al-Faisal
Respond
to
Charges
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| VOICES
IN THE NEWS |
 KINGDOM'S
TRADE WITH US
HAS SURGED
RIYADH,
11 September
2003 [Arab News]
� Two years
after Sept. 11,
the US has
reported a 61
percent surge in
bilateral trade
with the
Kingdom,
indicating a
strong recovery
in commercial
ties. �There
has clearly been
an impact on the
US-Saudi
relationship, as
both our
governments have
had to address
the very real
and immediate
threat of
terrorism and
extremism,� US
Ambassador
Robert Jordan
told Arab News.
�I think these
challenges have
forced both our
governments to
work harder
together, and we
have made great
efforts to
understand each
other and learn
how to
cooperate. I
would say that
despite much of
the negative
commentary from
media on both
sides since
Sept. 11, the
relationship has
actually
deepened and
improved due to
our joint
efforts to
combat the
threat of
terrorism.�
The ambassador
said that
despite these
challenges,
right after
Sept. 11 and
through 2002,
imports of US
products into
Saudi Arabia
remained flat.
�But now, in
the first four
months of 2003,
trade between
our two nations
grew 61 percent
compared to the
same period last
year, reaching
almost SR30
billion. We hope
to see this
number rise ever
higher,� he
added.
Source:
Arab News
[Reprinted
with permission
of Arab News]
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| FROM
THE HISTORY OF SAUDI-U.S.
RELATIONS |
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Remarks
Announcing the
Saudi Arabian
Aircraft Contract
February
16, 1994
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King
Fahd and President
Clinton
co-chair
a meeting in Saudi
Arabia in 1994.
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Remarks Announcing
the Saudi Arabian Aircraft
Contract
February 16, 1994
President Clinton:
Thank you very much,
Secretary Brown. Ladies
and gentlemen, in this
Olympic season, we come
here today to announce a
gold medal win for
America's businesses and
workers.
Last year the
Government of Saudi Arabia
decided to find
replacement aircraft for
its civilian fleet of
approximately 50
airplanes. Today, the
Saudi Ambassador, Prince
Bandar, has officially
informed me that King Fahd
has decided to purchase
the entire replacement
fleet from American
companies, from Boeing and
McDonnell Douglas. The
purchase will be financed
by the United States
Export-Import Bank. It
will total almost $6
billion and will support
tens of thousands of
American jobs in
Washington, California,
Kansas, Missouri, Utah,
Arkansas, and several
other States.
The purchase is a vote
of confidence in American
quality, American workers,
and the competitiveness of
our exports. As Secretary
Brown said, it underlines
the efforts that we have
made, from NAFTA to GATT
to the APEC conference to
our national export
strategy in lifting export
controls on many products
which for many years could
not be sold abroad, to
expand our markets, to
reduce trade barriers, to
create good high-paying
jobs in America in a
thriving and open world
economy. It proves again
that we can compete; we
don't have to retreat.
The United States and
Saudi Arabia have long
enjoyed close relations.
We have especially strong
commercial relations in
the field of civil
aviation. With today's
announcement, this proud
tradition will continue
well into the next
century. Close economic
ties complement the
important political and
strategic relationship
that we have and that we
value greatly with Saudi
Arabia.
[Unrelated portions
deleted]
Source:
U.S.
Government Printing
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A
Vanished
World
By
Wilfred
Thesiger
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Book
Description
The
visual
drama of
Arabia's
deserts
completed
the
development
of
Thesiger's
latent
talent
for
portraiture.
During
his five
years in
Arabia
(1945-50)
he was
able to
depict
his Bedu
companions
with the
full
sensitivity
and
power
which
his
pre-war
photographs
had
began to
suggest.
Conceived
of in
the
harshest
of
settings,
these
Arabia
pictures
bear
eloquent
testimony
to the
inspirational
effect
the
desert
had upon
Thesiger.
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