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Within 77 years Saudi Arabia has raised it population’s literacy rate from ten percent to 82 percent. This is just one of many facts about Saudi Arabia and its evolution as a people and country.
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE UPI Editor at Large WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The infamous retired Pakistani spy chief general Hamid Gul is back on the air and in the headlines as propaganda chief for the Taliban insurgents. He now claims the Taliban is 88,000-strong and ready to take over when U.S. and NATO forces leave Afghanistan. With fewer than 100 al-Qaida terrorists still in Afghanistan ...
TTLA 's archival conversation with Dalia Dassa Kaye , associate director for RAND's Center for Middle East Public Policy. More than a year ago, TTLA spent time in the office of RAND's Dalia Dassa Kaye. At the time, a book she'd co-authored, "More Freedom, Less Terror? Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World," had recently been published. That volume is available for sale and as a ...
NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates seized a tanker carrying more than $20 million of crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the United States in the increasingly dangerous waters off East Africa, an official said Monday, an attack that could pose a huge environmental or security threat. read more
LONDON — A supertanker bound from Saudi Arabia to New Orleans with 28 crew members on board was hijacked off the coast of Somalia, the European Union Naval Force said Monday.
SAUDI ARABIA Swine flu kills five pilgrims at hajj MINA | Five people died from swine flu during the hajj, Saudi Arabia said Sunday, a relatively small number considering that the event is the largest annual gathering in the world and is seen as an ideal incubator for the virus. But some experts warned that the true extent of the virus will not be known until pilgrims return to their home ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pollution typically declines during a recession. Not this time.
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Ahmad Zerfaoui is one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, according to the United Nations, which lists him as a member of al-Qaeda’s North African arm. It may be difficult to bring him to justice: He died three years ago.
Survivors of flash floods in Saudi Arabia, will receive funding from local authorities.
EU: Somali pirates seize super tanker of crude oil heading from Saudi Arabia to the US
Jeddah - The skies opened as millions of Muslims pilgrims started the hajj rites in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, leaving the desert kingdom drenched in rain. In Mina, the torrential downpour turned roads into rivers of mud and left do...
Tuesday, President Obama, speaking to the Corps of Cadets at West Point, laid out the reasons he’s decided to send 30,000 of their fellow soldiers to the moon-like terrain of Afghanistan . “I see firsthand the terrible ravages of war,” the president said. “If I did not think that the security of the United States and the safety of the American people were at stake in Afghanistan , I would gladly ...
Major Nidal Malik Hasan's murder of 13 people at Fort Hood on November 5th was the act of an Islamic terrorist. The U.S. government is trying to explain it as just the act of a lone madman, but that's what terrorist attacks often are.
AUSTIN – The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, founded in 1963 and recognized as the world’s oldest privately held coffee retailer, will open its doors for business at the Hancock Shopping Center, located at 1000 E. 41st Street, on Saturday, December 12. The popular shopping destination will be host to The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf’s third Austin location and its first drive-through location.
Washington (UPI) Dec 3, 2009 - From his former incarnation as strategic adviser to Pakistan's politico-religious parties, the one-time Pakistani intelligence chief Hamid Gul has resurfaced as de facto minister of propaganda and disinformation for the Taliban insurgents. In a dramatic reincarnation for the "meray mutabiq" ("my opinion") program on Geo television, Gul said the Taliban has 88,000 ...
Online porn has been the scourge of family values advocates, who say the Internet has made access to smut too easy. Now that hard-core apps are being developed for MiKandi, the same concerns are being raised.
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