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Saudi Arabia: Country Profile, Briefings, Latest Issues

The story on Saudi Arabia: current issues, the oil economy, Saudi Arabia's place as the custodian of Islam--and a hub for Wahhabist terrorism, and its relations with the United States and the greater Middle East.
U.S. Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
How U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia beef up the Saudi Kingdom--and U.S. arms manufacturers.
Osama bin Laden in the United States
In 1978, Osama bin Laden, a young newlywed, visited the United States with his wife. They stayed in Indiana. He went to Los Angeles.
How Saudi Arabia Discriminates Against Jews
It isn't a secret that Saudi Arabia has long discriminated against Jews, forbidding them to enter the country. Bot for years, the U.S. government complied and enabled Saudi bigotry.
Masjid al-Haram, or the Grand Mosque in Mecca
Definition and brief history of Masjid al-Haram, or the Grand Mosque, the holiest site in Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games
Your Guide to the 2008 Beijing Olympics for Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia’s Olympic history and country profile, and Saudi Arabia’s athletes at the 2008 Olympics by name and by sport, or game.
Glossary: Wahhabism, or Wahhabiyah
A definition of Wahhabism, founded by Muhammad Ibn al-Wahhab, the rigid interpretation of Islam that dominates Saudi Arabian society.
Go West, Young Imam
Saudi Aramco World, the magazine of Saudi Aramco, the mammoth state oil company, is one of the many ways the Puritan Islamic regime burnishes its image--and that of Islam.
Saudi Arabia: Country Profile
Saudi Arabia's demographics, absolute monarchy, oil economy, religious order, military, human rights record, history and current issues are profiled.

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