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  SAUDI ARABIA
The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by the sons and grandsons of the first king, Abd Al Aziz Al Saud, and that the Qur'an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari'a).
Saudi Arabia claims to be in possession of 260.1 billion barrels of oil reserves as of 2003, about 24% of the world's proven total petroleum reserves.
Saudi Arabia was a key player in the successful efforts of OPEC and other oil producing countries to raise the price of oil in 1999 to its highest level since the Gulf War by reducing production.
www.solarnavigator.net /geography/saudi_arabia.htm   (2945 words)

  
  Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by the sons and grandsons of the first king, Abd Al Aziz Al Saud, and that the Qur'an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari'a).
Saudi Arabia prizes education because of its critical importance in developing the country's human potential, and in the 21st century private education facilities are opening all over the Kingdom.
Saudi Arabia was a key player in the successful efforts of OPEC and other oil producing countries to raise the price of oil in 1999 to its highest level since the Gulf War by reducing production.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saudi_Arabia   (4091 words)

  
 Insurgency in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Insurgency in Saudi Arabia is an armed conflict in Saudi Arabia between radical Sunni Muslim fighters, believed to be associated with al-Qaeda, against the Saudi monarchy.
Saudi Arabia being the most holy site in Islam—home to Mecca (where the prophet Muhammed was born) and Medina (where he spent much of his time) — many Muslims were upset at the former U.S. presence.
On the same day, Saudi security forces killed Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, at that time the country's most wanted man. Officials said that his killing was a major blow to al-Qaeda's forces in the kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Insurgency_in_Saudi_Arabia   (1053 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia energy oil information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Saudi Arabia is keen to protect the environmental safety of the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, and the Saudi petroleum industry--led by Saudi Aramco, the state oil company--has contributed to environmental protection through safety measures, early warning systems against possible leakage, and advanced methods to control and contain any pollution.
Saudi Arabia is a signatory to the London Protocol, which calls for phasing out chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases harmful to the ozone layer by 2010, and Aramco, in keeping with the protocol on ozone-depleting substances, has been identifying its CFC-based cooling systems and converting them to alternative compounds.
Although Saudi Arabia ratified the Convention, it is not a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol.
www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/saudenv.html   (2841 words)

  
 Saudi Aramco World : Homes of Old Makkah   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Ka'bah, the sacred house of God – and Makkah’s first stone building – was built near the well as a place of worship; it came to be revered by all the tribes and eventually became the center of pilgrimage.
Later immigrants built their houses on slopes and hilltops, due to a shortage of land in the valley and the problem of seasonal flooding, in those days, the height of buildings did not exceed two stories.
In older, wealthier houses, the maq’ad is replaced by an even more luxurious room known as the diwan, with carpets on the floor and cushions for sitting or reclining along the walls, where the men meet for receptions, take their dinner and talk business.
www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/199304/homes.of.old.makkah.htm   (2736 words)

  
 International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia is an Islamic monarchy without legal protection for freedom of religion, and such protection does not exist in practice.
The majority of Saudi citizens are Sunni Muslims predominantly adhering to the strict interpretation of Islam taught by the Salafi or Wahhabi school that is the official state religion.
Saudi Arabia is an Islamic monarchy and the Government has declared the Holy Koran and the Sunna (tradition) of the Prophet Muhammad to be the country’s Constitution.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/14012.htm   (4341 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe in the War on Terror?
Saudi state curriculum for many years has taught children to hate "the other" and support jihad, a malleable term that is used by terrorists to describe and justify their atrocities.
Saudi commentators, themselves, have drawn the link between, on one hand, the large number of Saudis involved on September 11, and among the al Qaeda prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and the insurgents in Iraq, and, on the other, the culture of religious rage and violence that is part of Saudi religious education.
They are: official publications of a government ministry; distributed by the Saudi embassy; comprised of religious pronouncements and commentary by religious authorities appointed to state positions by the Saudi crown; representative of the established Wahhabi ideology of Saudi Arabia; and/or disseminated through a mosque or center supported by the Saudi crown.
www.aina.org /news/20051108145828.htm   (4078 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia Terrorism
Support from Saudi Arabia could be of key importance to the group, both as a source of inspiration and ideological authority, and for raising funds to support al-Jama'a's terrorism activities.
Saudi Arabia's global charities, like the Muslim World League, permitted the spread of the new militancy that was forged from the cooperation between the Wahhabi clerics and the Muslim Brotherhood refugees.
Saudi spokesmen tried to distance themselves from this activity by arguing that they helped these families through "international aid organizations." Yet it became clear from the spreadsheets that these contributions were given through a specifically Saudi organization, headed by the Saudi Minister of the Interior, Prince Naif.
www.israelnewsagency.com /saudiarabiaterrorism.html   (7898 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia travel guide - Wikitravel
Saudi Arabia is a Middle Eastern country in Asia that occupies most of the Arabian peninsula and has both Persian Gulf and Red Sea coast lines.
Saudi Arabia is one of two countries named for their royal families, along with The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
Saudi Arabia has some of the most restrictive travel policies in the world, and advance visas are required for all foreigners desiring to enter or leave.
wikitravel.org /en/Saudi_Arabia   (2756 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: Saudi Bombing -- November 10, 2003
He is author of "Saudi Arabia and the Politics of Dissent." And Matt Levitt, a former Middle East counter-terrorism analyst at the FBI.
I mean, one of the basic problems in terms of terrorism in Saudi Arabia is the issue of financing that's coming from charitable organizations inside Saudi Arabia, as well as the propaganda and the cultural justification sometimes to the actions of certain terrorists.
The first is the social contract by which Saudis were given cradle-to-grave benefits from education to welfare to jobs, not to mention the lavish lifestyles that were given to the thousands of princes, and simply the economics and demographics do not allow for that to continue.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec03/saudi_11-10.html   (1748 words)

  
 Saudi-American Forum - Presidential Election & The Middle East - Saudi Arabia Relations Information
Saudi Arabians are struggling to understand why they are being tarred and feathered in Washington.
In the past, Saudi Arabia was something of a Teflon ally to the United States.
Saudi Arabia was criticized in America for its position vis-à-vis Israel, human rights record, and other issues.
www.saudi-american-forum.org /Newsletters/SAF_Essay_21.htm   (1676 words)

  
 House of Saud: a house of sand: as internal dissension festers in the kingdom of Arabia, the Saudi royal family ...
Saudi Arabia is a powder keg, say Middle East experts, and multimillionaire Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network was intended as the match to blow the United States out of the region and radicalize the whole of Islam.
Even though Saudi Arabia has the largest proved oil reserves in the world and dominates the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, some Americans are beginning to ask why the United States has insisted on defending the Saudi regime.
Saudi Arabia and the British government have denied this widely reported transfer, but Amnesty International says electroshock batons are in common use in Saudi police operations.
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 Saudi American Relations
They are the 26 most-wanted young men in Saudi Arabia, sought in connection with the May 12 and Nov. 8 suicide bombings here that took the lives of 53 people, mainly Arabs.
But with the two bombings in Saudi Arabia, ordinary Saudis have not only come to accept they have a problem with extremists, but are actively helping their government root them out.
Since this past spring, the Saudis have instituted a number of measures to block funding: Collection boxes were removed from mosques, and tighter restrictions were placed on financial transfers and charitable donations.
www.saudi-us-relations.org /newsletter2004/saudi-relations-interest-01-09.html   (1803 words)

  
 AlDalil site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Zaidan House was established in the early 1950's as a manufacturer of steel formwork and scaffolding.
Our factory is considered to be one of the newest factories in Saudi Arabia specialized in the production of leather folding doors in all sizes using the newest equipments and highly experienced technicians.
Saudi Cranes manufactures cranes and monorail hoists with electric, pneumatic, and manual operation for classified and unclassified locations.
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 Longing for India from far away : Two Houses of Horrors - Iran and Saudi Arabia, mehulkamdar blogs on sulekha, Current ...
Recently, Saudi King Abdullah sentenced a young woman who was a rape victim to 90 lashes because she happened to be with an unrelated male when she was raped by 14 men.
Of her rapists, some were sentenced to death and others were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, but the king chose to make an example of the girl for having gone out with an unrelated male and decided to award her 90 lashes of the whip for breaking that country's thuggish traditions.
Though both nations are centres of rival schisms within the same religion, their rivalry, now a matter of seeking nuclear weapons to dominate the region in between supporting rival militias that casually kill people by the hundred in the region, threatens to ignite whole Muslim communities far from this madcap region, indeed, across the world.
mehulkamdar.sulekha.com /blog/post/2007/04/tow-houses-of-horrors-iran-and-saudi-arabia.htm   (735 words)

  
 SUSRIS - Saudi Arabia and the US Congress - David Dumke
In Congress, Saudi Arabia was under significant criticism prior to 9/11, primarily due to the Palestinian Intifada.
Saudi Arabia was an issue in the 2004 presidential campaigns, due to the 9/11 backlash and a spike in petroleum prices.
Saudi Visas (H. To halt the issuance of visas to citizens of Saudi Arabia until the President certifies that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not discriminate in the issuance of visas on the basis of religious affiliation or heritage.
www.saudi-us-relations.org /articles/2006/ioi/060315-congress-dumke.html   (3562 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has a harsh, dry desert with great extremes of temperature.
Saudi Arabia’s legal system is based on Islamic law, several secular codes have been introduced with commercial disputes handled by special committees.
In addition to deportation for illegal workers and jail terms and fines for Saudis hiring illegal workers, the Government announced in 1998 that houses rented to illegal aliens would be ordered closed.
www.erieri.co.uk /freedata/HRCodes/SAUDI_ARABIA.htm   (1960 words)

  
 SECURITY IN SAUDI ARABIA Market Insights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The company was established in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1979 and has built up a team of qualified salesmen, engineers and technicians, backed by a well-equipped workshop.
Saudi Petro Gas is committed to recruiting world market leaders to bring their products and services to Saudi Arabia, and is experienced at working with key international firms.
Timna company is a system house that provides clients with complete solutions, from initial design concept to final commissioning, for their integrated security and communication needs.
www.us-saudi-business.org /Delegations/securitybroch2001.htm   (2904 words)

  
 Cheap Car Hire & Rental in Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Arabia is a land of mystery largely due to its fundamentalist Islam state form and its rigid admission policy.
The whole of the middle east is titled so the southwest of Saudi Arabia has mountains as high as 3000 meters while the east has lowlands.
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 The politics of oil: U.S.-Saudi relationship shows cheap fuel comes at a price - World - United States/Saudi Arabia ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At the heart of the alliance is oil -- Saudi Arabia's possession of it, the United States' reliance on it and the perceived need to defend U.S. access to it.
It is not, however, the strong commercial relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, but the security ties that have developed between the two since the Gulf War that are the main irritant for those opposed to the U.S. presence.
The U.S. troops on Saudi soil and U.S. support for a corrupt Saudi regime are among the reasons Osama bin Laden, the accused mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, cited for his declared holy war against the United States.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_44_37/ai_79965473   (516 words)

  
 MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: Saudi Arabia to build 600 houses for Palestinians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
RIYADH, 30 September — The Kingdom has decided to build 600 houses in six Palestinian cities as a token of support to the intifada against Israeli occupation.
The assistance was ordered by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd on the recommendation of Interior Minister Prince Naif who oversees the Saudi Committee for Support of the Jerusalem Intifada.
The plan involves construction of 100 housing units in addition to related utilities and services in each of the six cities.
www.menafn.com /qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=5284   (170 words)

  
 NewsHour Extra: Suicide Attacks Targeting Americans Kill 34 -- May 14, 2003
The bombings coincided with a visit by Secretary of State Colin Powell to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, and with recent plans by U.S. officials to withdraw military troops stationed in the region.
An estimated 60,000 Westerners live in Saudi Arabia, a small portion of the 6.4 million resident foreigners and approximately 17 million Saudis.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said his government had come close to preventing the attacks but could not stop them.
www.pbs.org /newshour/extra/features/jan-june03/saudi_5-14.html   (640 words)

  
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 Saudi Arabia
The House of Allah and the birth place of Imam Ali b.
This was the location of the house of Prophet Ismael [a].
He was amongst those who laid the foundation of the House after it was demolished.
www.al-islam.org /ziyarat/saudi.htm   (1586 words)

  
 American hostage’s head found in Saudi Arabia -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Source: AP The head of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr., who was beheaded last month, was found by Saudi security forces during a raid on one of the houses in Saudi Arabia, suspected to belong to Al Qaeda network.
Carol Kalin, the spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, said that Saudi authorities had informed the embassy of the discovery and that consular officials in Washington were in the process of informing Johnson's family.
A Saudi Interior Ministry official said three members of the security forces were wounded when they came under "heavy fire" from hand and rocket-propelled grenades while inspecting a residence suspected of being used by militants.
www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=2721   (823 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia News.Net
Saudi Readymix, leading manufacturer and supplier of ready-mixed concrete and related products in Saudi Arabia, has announced plans to equip its fleet of truck mixers and mobile pumps with an...
Saudi Arabia is hoping that the United Nations will step in to help save the historic old city of Jeddah, whose unique Red Sea architecture is in danger of disappearing.
Saudi Arabia News.Net is part of an international network of news sites, dedicated to the major regions, countries and cities of the world.
saudiarabianews.net   (2125 words)

  
 Saudi Arabia Travel Guide Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The central region (The Najd) is a vast stony desert plateau, and it houses Saudi Arabia’s Royal Capital, Riyadh, a large modern city.
All of Saudi Arabia’s stocks of oil lie under Hasa or beneath the Gulf.
The South region (The Asir) houses the ancient caravan city of Qaryat-Al-Fau, the great dam and Temple at Najran, and the ruins of the ancient cities of Timna and Shiban.
www.packback.com /books/country.asp?id=190   (236 words)

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