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	Medina, Washington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Medina is a city located in the Eastside, an affluent region of King County, Washington and a part of the Seattle metropolitan area.
		Named in 1892 for the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia, Medina was platted in 1914 and officially incorporated on August 19, 1955.
		Medina is connected to Seattle on the western shore of Lake Washington by Washington State Route 520 on the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, the longest floating bridge in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medina,_Washington (561 words)

	Medina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Medina /mɛˈdiːnə/ (Arabic: المدينة المنورة‎ /ælmæˈdiːnæl muˈnɑwːɑrɑ/ or المدينة /ælmæˈdiːnæ/; also transliterated into English as Madinah) is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.
		Medina was originally known as Yathrib, but later the city's name was changed to Madīnat al-Nabī (ﻣﺩﯾﻨﺔ ﺍﻟﻨﺒﻲ /mæˈdiːnæt æˈnːæbiː/ "city of the prophet") or Al Madīnah al Munawwarah ("the enlightened city" or "the radiant city"), while the short form Medina simply means "city".
		In 1256 Medina was threatened by lava flow from the last eruption of Harrat Rahat.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medina (913 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Arabia is mainly a great plateau of ancient crystalline rock, largely covered with limestone and sandstone.
		Until the mid-20th cent., when oil was discovered in E Arabia, the peninsula's main exports were hides, wool, coffee, spices, camels, and the famed, highly bred Arabian horses; in W Arabia pearls were exported.
		Arabia was briefly unified after the founding of Islam by Muhammad, the prophet of Mecca, in the 7th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Arabia.asp (1622 words)

	Medina, city, Saudi Arabia
		Thereafter Medina was reduced to the rank of a provincial town, ruled by governors appointed by the distant caliphs.
		Medina is the seat of Islamic Univ. (1962).
		Medina, Saudi Arabia: A Geographic Analysis of the City and Region
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0832491.html (256 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)

	Medina, Saudi Arabia, Pictures
		Medina, also Medinat-en-Nabi (Arabic for “City of the Prophet”) and Medinat Rasul Allah (“City of the Apostle of God”), city in western Saudi Arabia, located in the Al Hijaz (Hejaz) Province.
		Medina is consequently one of the most sacred shrines of Islam.
		Medina was the capital of the Muslim world until 661, when the caliphate was transferred to Damascus.
	www.greatestcities.com /Middle_East/Saudi_Arabia/Medina_Medinat-en-Nabi_and_Medinat_Rasul_Allah_city.html (322 words)

	Medina, city, Saudi Arabia
		Saudi Arabia: torn between ancient traditions and the modern world, Saudis search for balance in the post-9/11 glare.(Kingdom On Edge)...
		Saudi Arabia's accession to the WTO: is a "revolution" brewing?(World Trade Organization)(Discussion)
		The Saudi Game: America's long relationship with Saudi Arabia, home to most of the hijackers, is a tale of money, oil, personal ties,......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0832491.html (360 words)

	Saudi Arabia
		Saudi Arabia occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula, with the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba to the west and the Persian Gulf to the east.
		Saudi Arabia was neutral until nearly the end of the war, but it was permitted to be a charter member of the United Nations.
		House of Saud: a house of sand: as internal dissension festers in the kingdom of Arabia, the Saudi royal family straddles the fence......
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107947.html (1485 words)

	CNN.com - Russia seeks hijack extraditions - March 16, 2001
		MEDINA, Saudi Arabia -- Russia is demanding that the hijackers who took control of a Russian jet are extradited from Saudi Arabia.
		The hijackers were arrested after Saudi special forces stormed the plane -- on the tarmac at Medina airport -- and freed the 162 passengers and 12 crew on board.
		Russia and Saudi Arabia do not have an extradition treaty but the prosecutor's office in Moscow said a legal basis existed for handing the hijackers over to the Russian authorities, RIA Novosti reported.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/16/turkey.hijack.05 (612 words)

	CNN.com - Three die as jet hijack ends - March 16, 2001
		The Saudi Interior Ministry said the operation was launched after the hijackers -- believed to be Chechens -- threatened to blow up the airliner, which they commandeered after it left Istanbul, in Turkey on Thursday.
		Saudi officials said the hijacker was shot after stabbing to death a female flight attendant during the rescue.
		Saudi state television showed armed commandos in full battle dress, running up ladders to the plane and kicking in windows and doors.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/16/turkey.hijack.04/index.html (591 words)

	Saudi Arabia
		Saudi sponsors have substantial leverage in the negotiations and may block departure or bar future employment in the country.
		Saudi customs authorities enforce strict regulations concerning importation into Saudi Arabia of such banned items as alcohol products, weapons and any item that is held to be contrary to the tenets of Islam.
		To ensure that conservative standards of conduct are observed, the Saudi religious police have accosted or arrested foreigners, including U.S. citizens, for improper dress or other alleged infractions, such as consumption of alcohol or association by a female with a male to whom she is not related.
	travel.state.gov /travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1012.html (4591 words)

	Medina, city, Saudi Arabia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Before the flight (Hegira) of Muhammad from Mecca to the city in 622, Medina was called Yathrib.
		Medina grew rapidly until 661, when the Umayyad dynasty transferred the capital of the caliphate to Damascus.
		The Wahhabis captured it in 1804, but it was retaken for the Turks by Muhammad Ali in 1812.
	www.bartleby.com /65/me/MedinaSA.html (317 words)

	Medina: City of the Prophet - ReligionFacts
		It was to Medina city that Muhammad fled when he was initially driven out of Mecca, and the place where he attracted his first followers.
		Medina is the second holy city of Islam, after Mecca.
		Describes the religious importance of Medina and delineates the exact area of the city that is sacred.
	www.religionfacts.com /islam/places/medina.htm (524 words)

	ABC News: Saudi Arabia's King Fahd Dead
		On Khalid's death in 1982, Fahd became the king and prime minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
		Saudi Arabia remains one of the most conservative places in the world, where alcohol is nonexistent, the large number of foreign workers are strictly segregated from Saudis, and women seen in public are in full chador.
		In February 2003, Saudi Arabia allowed the United States the use of the Prince Sultan air base, home to 5,000 U.S. troops, for the enforcement of a "no-fly" zone over southern Iraq, but not for offensive use in a war.
	abcnews.go.com /International/story?id=996188&page=2 (770 words)

	CNN.com - Saudi forces storm hijacked jet - March 16, 2001
		MEDINA, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi security forces have stormed a hijacked Russian plane to end a tense stand-off with suspected Chechen rebels.
		Airport officials in Medina told CNN one hijacker and at least two passengers were killed in the operation.
		The deputy governor of Medina earlier said a crisis team had been at the airport, talking by radio to the hijackers, who were armed with knives and claimed to have a bomb.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/03/16/turkey.hijack.02/index.html (663 words)

	USATODAY.com - Donation rejected in NYC; prayers said for Afghanis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Saudis, like other Arabs, are distrustful of the United States, which some accuse of unfairly siding with Israel in the Israeli-Arab conflict, seeking to control Arab wealth and governments, and harboring hatred of Islam.
		Saudi Arabia is bin Laden's homeland, though the government stripped him of his citizenship years ago.
		Medina's mosque, distinguished by its large green dome and 10 minarets, was built by the construction company owned by bin Laden's family.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/10/12/saudi-reax.htm (809 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Middle East & Northern Africa: Saudi Arabia
		Saudi Arabia lacked independent national institutions to question, criticize or hold accountable the all-powerful executive branch of government controlled by the royal family.
		The department of statistics disclosed on August 9 that 50 percent of the Saudi population was under the age of fifteen.
		Blatant gender discrimination meant that Saudi women and girls (Saudi law sets no minimum age for marriage) were not permitted to marry non-Muslims and could not pass on their Saudi citizenship to their children from non-Saudi fathers.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k3/mideast6.html (3816 words)

	Wide Angle . The Saudi Question \| PBS
		Saudi Arabia is in the throes of a crisis.
		Based in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is formed under the rule of King Ibn Saud.
		Saudi Arabia's two most powerful figures have taken opposing sides in this debate: Crown Prince Abdullah tilts toward the liberal reformers, whereas his half-brother Prince Nayef, the interior minister, sides with the clerics.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/wideangle/shows/saudi/index.html (719 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Portait Of An Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Deputy Amir of Medina was the head of the Examinations Committee and he told the director of the school, 'I want this boy to work for me.' After graduation I went to work for the Diwan, the Council, of Medina.
		Printing costs are quite high in Saudi Arabia, and the unit cost of the magazine is one and one-half riyals per copy.
		When the papers began to be published in the Kingdom during the 1920's the wings of the bird found new strength, for now the young poets gave voice to their thoughts.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196401/portait.of.an.editor.htm (3101 words)

	CNN.com - Backgrounder: Saudi Arabia is key U.S. ally - November 9, 2001
		About the size of France and Germany combined, Saudi Arabia is a largely barren land, but under all the sand lies the largest known petroleum deposits in the world.
		While the Saudi’s have condemned the terrorist attacks in the United States, and are supporting the campaign in Afghanistan for now, they have not authorized U.S. planes to take off from Prince Sultan Airbase.
		Reports of growing dissatisfaction among the Saudi people toward King Fahd’s rule are surfacing, and some say a fundamentalist movement is growing in the nation.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/fyi/news/11/09/saudi.arabia (626 words)

	Saudi Arabia
		Modern Saudi Arabia was founded by the Wahhabis, a group of austere desert warriors renown for their strict Islamic piety and strict application of Shari'a law.
		The discovery and exploitation of vast oil fields has brought wealth and foreigners to Saudi Arabia, but the laws regarding religion have changed very little and it is illegal to smoke, drink alcohol, for women to drive, etc. Yet Saudi Arabia with so much money and oil plays a central role in the Muslim world.
		There have been terrorist attacks against Americans in Saudi Arabia, and many others have called for the overthrow of the Saudi government due to its corruption and capitulation to outside forces.
	www.rjgeib.com /biography/milken/crescent-moon/persian-gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia.htm (949 words)

	More Saudi Vandalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		SAUDI ARABIA, in which Wahhabism is the state form of Islam, has a long history of vandalizing and demolishing historical monuments.
		And now the Saudi authorities are at it again, according to reports from enraged Saudi subjects, who as in earlier instances have requested anonymity.
		The city planning authorities in Medina, known for their Wahhabi extremism, have ordered the leveling of five of seven mosques built in the city by Muhammad's daughter and four of his companions.
	www.weeklystandard.com /content/public/articles/000/000/004/194skrvx.asp (590 words)

	USATODAY.com - Saudis: 11 more Riyadh bombing suspects arrested (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Three clerics known as sympathizers of the al-Qaeda terror group are among 11 suspected militants detained this week, Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef has said.
		In the Riyadh attacks, the suicide assailants detonated vehicle bombs in housing compounds for foreigners in the Saudi capital, killing 25 bystanders.
		Saudi papers reported Wednesday that officials had arrested five people in Medina, including Ali Abd al-Rahman al-Faqasi al-Ghamdi, whom U.S. officials believe to be one of al-Qaeda's top figures in Saudi Arabia.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-05-29-saudi-arrests_x.htm (490 words)

	Wikinfo \| Medina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Medina (Arabic: al-Madinah; alternatively transliterated into English as Madinah) is a city in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.
		In the ten years following the Hegira, Medina formed the basis form where Muhammad attacked and finnaly conquered Makkah.
		Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Medina (400 words)

	[Islam-Online- North American Affairs]
		MEDINA, Saudi Arabia, Oct 20 (AFP) - Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz has announced a package of legal reforms to encourage foreign investment and said privatization was now a "strategic option" for the oil-rich kingdom.
		Foreign investors can only hold a minority share of companies set up in Saudi Arabia and they are not automatically granted visas to visit the conservative Muslim state.
		The Saudi kingdom launched a privatization program in 1997 in an effort to cut red tape and allow public companies to grow independently of a government whose investment capacity relies on fluctuating oil prices.
	www.islamonline.net /IOL-english/dowalia/money-29-10/money5.asp (519 words)

	Islamset - Photo Gallery: Medina, Saudi Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		, in western Saudi Arabia, is a sacred city that only Muslims are permitted to enter.
		The Prophet Muhammad took refuge in Medina after fleeing Mecca in 622 ad, and the city's numerous mosques remain a destination for large numbers of Muslims on their annual pilgrimage.
		The income derived from visiting pilgrims forms the basis of Medina's economy.
	www.islamset.com /encyclo/gallery/medina.html (58 words)

	center for islamic counseling and guidance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Person must also be a University graduate with a bachelors degree from one of the main Islamic colleges or Universities or at least a high school graduate or equivalent from tone of the recognized Islamic high schools or institutions.
		Daoud Kairaba Bojang / BA in Islamic Law and Islamic Studies, Islamic University of Medina, Saudi Arabia.
		Mateen Sabree / BA in Islamic Law and Islamic Studies, Islamic University of Medina, Saudi Arabia.
	www.islamiccounseling.org /member.html (161 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Saudis quiz 'gay wedding' guests
		Saudi investigators are grilling some 50 people for allegedly attending a gay wedding in the city of Medina, a newspaper reported on Monday.
		The incident has shocked Saudi Arabia, where gay marriage is banned.
		His Saudi sponsor confirmed the man's story and said he had given him money to meet the marriage expenses.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3521479.stm (252 words)

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