Saudi Arabia Warns Iran Over Lebanon ‘Coup’

Saudia Arabia has spoken out against Iran for its potential support of a "coup" in Lebanon, and called upon other Arab nations "to respect Lebanon's sovereignty and independence" and stay out of its affairs."RIYADH, May 13: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal warned...

Secretary Reaffirms Strategic Ties with Omani Leaders

" WASHINGTON, April 5, 2008 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates returned here today after a brief stop in Oman following the NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania. In the secretary’s first visit to Oman, Gates met with Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id Al Said at his...

Dollar at increased risk of losing status as a reserve currency

"Venezuela's Communist leader Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) summit in Riyadh, said they no longer want be paid in U.S. dollars for their petroleum, but in euros.The outspoken US political...

King Abdullah breaks ground on world-class university

"With one of the largest university endowments in the world, a program to recruit top-flight faculty and students from across the globe and collaborations already underway with prestigious research institutions across several continents, King Abdullah University of Science...

Iran Standoff headed For Confrontation: Saudis

    Saudi Arabian foreign minister Saud Al Faisal expressed concern on thursday that Iran's standoff with western powers over it's nuclear program was headed toward a "Confrontation." Western powers...

Grow Up, Middle East!

    Ahh, indeed well said by a very reputable and credentialed source."August 02, 2007 Grow Up, Middle East! By Victor Davis Hanson Radical Islamists love to scream about the "decadent" West....

Party-goers to be flogged and thrown in jail

I can't begin to count the number of times I've heard my friends on the Left describe Conservatives as wanting to establish a "Theocracy" in America.  Maybe it just boils down to understanding what a theocracy is.....for that, all we have to do is to look at the Magic...

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House of Saud, House Of Cards

"Guess who says this..... “Passing over, for the present, all the evils and mischiefs which monarchy has occasioned in the world, nothing can more effectually prove its usefulness in a state of civil government than making it hereditary. Would we make any office...

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