Conflicts / Tags / Saudi

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Sep 10, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Clashes erupted in Pakistan Monday as former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was deported to Saudi Arabia shortly after returning home from seven years in exile hoping to campaign against the country's military ruler. Sharif was briefly taken into police cust.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 10:31pm neoform

Washington Post -- A detainee found dead in his cell at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday was a Saudi army veteran who trained with U.S. forces before fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan, according to military hearing records. Abdul Rahman Ma'ath Thafir al-Amri had been i.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Jun 1, 2007 @ 2:26am neoform

BBC News -- A detainee who apparently committed suicide at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday was a Saudi army veteran who fought for the Taleban, US officials have said. The man, named as Abd al-Rahman al-Amiri, was found not breathing in his cell at the US detention fa.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu May 31, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- A Saudi Arabian prisoner has died in an apparent suicide at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the US military has said. A statement by the US Southern Command said the inmate was found unresponsive and not breathing by guards, and at.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun May 13, 2007 @ 12:24am neoform

Al Jazeera -- US military resolve Cheney said on Friday that heightened US military presence in the Gulf demonstrated Washington's resolve in a standoff with Iran over Tehran's nuclear plans. Saudi Arabia shares US concerns about Iran's nuclear programme, whi.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 30, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- King Abdullah's sharp criticism of the American presence in Iraq raised eyebrows in Washington, but experts say that the Saudi Arabian monarch's intentions probably complement, rather than conflict with, U.S. goals in the region. Abdullah made his comm.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 10:12pm neoform

USA Today -- Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 9:51am mrmdc

Boston Globe -- Two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had a support network in the United States that included agents of the Saudi government, and the Bush administration and FBI blocked a congressional investigation into that relationship, Senator Bob Graham wrote in a b.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 11:16am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Dec 4, 2006 @ 8:17am neoform

Telegraph -- The gulf's two military powers, Sunni-Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shia Iran, are lining up behind their warring religious brethren in Iraq in a potentially explosive showdown, as expectations grow in both countries that America is preparing a pull-out of its.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 30, 2008 @ 8:10am neoform

BBC News -- The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has said al-Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and on the defensive elsewhere. Michael Hayden's remarks, which correspondents describe as strikingly upbeat, come less than a year.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Aug 1, 2007 @ 9:29am neoform

BBC News -- Saudi Arabia says it supports US plans for a regional peace conference this year and would be keen to attend. The conference is intended to revive the peace process and would include Israel, the Palestinians and Arab states viewed as moderate by the US.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 9:00pm neoform

CNN -- The former Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, may have received up to $2 billion in confidential payments from a British defense firm, BAE Systems, over a period of nearly 20 years, according to two British media repo.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Jun 7, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry announced Thursday it had arrested 11 al Qaeda members in the span of 48 hours who were responsible for financing and encouraging terrorism. A ministry statement quoting a senior ministry official said the detainees wer.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun May 13, 2007 @ 12:24am neoform

USA Today -- Vice President Dick Cheney worked to overcome Saudi skepticism over the U.S. military strategy to secure Baghdad and the leadership capabilities of Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki. Cheney met with King Abdullah at a royal palace in this northern city o.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 28, 2007 @ 2:02pm neoform

FOX News -- Some of the militants arrested in a terror sweep in Saudi Arabia trained to use civilian aircraft in homicide missions, an official said Saturday, detailing a plot mirroring the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, the Int.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 11:02am neoform

MSNBC -- A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive lashes and spend several months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced, a newspaper reported Sunday... Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Mon Jan 29, 2007 @ 9:42am mrmdc

Reuters -- Rival Palestinian factions battled in Gaza for a fifth day, killing at least three people on Monday despite a Saudi offer to host talks between Hamas and Fatah in the holy city Mecca... Read More