Saudi Wins Backing for Terror Center But Role Unclear
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Security officials from some 50  countries endorsed a Saudi proposal for an international  counter-terrorism center Tuesday but its exact role, location  and funding remained unclear.
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim leaders in Saudi  Arabia rejected Friday U.S. criticism of religious constraints  in the kingdom, saying the cradle of Islam had a duty to uphold  its own faith.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Even as Saudi Arabia struggles internally with violent extremists and externally with its image as the country that produced most of the attackers of Sept. 11, 2001, the desert kingdom's rulers are moving on multiple fronts to modernize and moderate their nation.
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Most Saudi Arabia citizens interviewed in a poll oppose terrorism and want closer ties with the United States. But many Saudis remain opposed to making peace with Israel, according to what researchers call an unprecedented survey of the kingdom.
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The public corporation that owns the site of New York City&#39;s destroyed World Trade Center says it intends to hold Saudi Arabia liable for the September 11, 2001 attacks that toppled the complex.
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The government agency that owns the World Trade Center site said Friday it intends to hold Saudi Arabia and nearly 100 other defendants liable for the Sept.
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"(CNN) -- A longtime associate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden surrendered to Saudi Arabian officials Tuesday, a Saudi Interior Ministry official said."  "But it is unclear what role, if any, Khaled al-Harbi may have had in any terror attacks because no public charges have been filed against him."  "The Saudi government -- in a statement released by its embassy in Washington -- called al-Harbi's surrender "the latest direct result" of its limited, one-month offer of leniency to terror suspects."  This is great!  I hope this really starts to pay off.  Creative solutions to terrorism that don't involve violence.    How refreshing!   Are you paying attention Bush administration?
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Some officials believe the Muslim Brotherhood, a secretive and diverse movement opposed to Western influences, offers a chance for political engagement that could help isolate violent jihadists.
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Heads of security services and governments around the world have something in common with Osama bin Laden. They all stand to benefit from exaggerating the capabilities of al-Qaeda.
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Using money, weapons or its oil power, Saudi Arabia will intervene to prevent Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias from massacring Iraqi Sunni Muslims once the United States begins pulling out of Iraq, a security adviser to the Saudi government said on Wednesday.
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The move represents a victory for the parents and supporters of a U.S. citizen who has been held without charges in Saudi Arabia since June 2003.
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Saudi Arabia remains tight-lipped over 10 terror funding arrests, but relatives say the men are pro-reform activists.
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For the first time in 41 years, Saudi Arabia is allowing local elections. The ruling family's goal, political analysts and diplomats say, is to determine whether a more open government might help defuse a rising armed threat by Muslim  militants in the kingdom.
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Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in a war against Iraqi Shiites if the United States withdraws from Iraq, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing American and Arab diplomats.
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The U.S. would consider military force if necessary to stem al-Qaida's growing ability to use its hideout in Pakistan to launch terrorist attacks, a White House aide said Sunday. The Senate's top Democrat endorsed that approach.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 14 -- President Bush on Monday launched a rare round of intensive personal diplomacy with Saudi King Abdullah aimed at winning support for a variety of American objectives such as rebuilding Iraq, pressuring Iran, fighting al-Qaeda and backing the U.S.-brokered peace talks...
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U.S. ally Saudi Arabia said Tuesday it was working with Iran, America's top rival in the Mideast, to find ways to ease the crises in Lebanon and Iraq &#151; a departure from Washington's confrontational stance toward Tehran.