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Saudis and Americans: Friends in Need
Silverstein, Ken | December 3, 2001 issue

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The article focuses on relation between Saudi Arabia and The U.S. Saudi Arabia, traditionally one of America's most important allies in the Middle East, has recently come in for unusually sharp criticism in Washington. Political leaders have blasted Riyadh's refusal to allow the U.S. to use bases in the kingdom to launch attacks against the Taliban and for its lack of cooperation in investigating the September 11 hijackers, of whom fifteen of the nineteen were Saudi citizens, according to the FBI. Nor has it escaped notice that the Saudis until quite recently were the principal financial prop of the Taliban regime and that they have funded the radical Islamic schools in Pakistan and elsewhere known as madrassahs.

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INTERNATIONAL relations; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; POLITICAL leadership; TALIBAN; UNITED States; SAUDI Arabia
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