| December 23, 2008 | - An eight-year-old Saudi Arabian girl was denied a divorce from her 58-year-old husband because she was too young to file.
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Guardian
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| November 24, 2008 | - Officials in Rochester, Minnesota, said that the city's economic woes were relieved for the year after an eight-day visit by Saudi King Abdullah and hundreds of his family members, who spent up to $2.5 million during their stay.
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Local 6
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| October 21, 2008 | -
Saudi authorities indicted 991 people on charges of participating in terrorist attacks.
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New York Times
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| August 29, 2008 | - Hip-hop mogul P. Diddy announced that the rising price of fuel had forced him to give up private-jet travel. “Can you believe this, I'm actually flying commercial!” he said. “Gas prices are too motherfuckin' high. I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters and all my brothers and sisters from all the countries that have oil. If y'all could please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.”
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E!Online
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| June 25, 2008 | -
Saudi Arabia announced that it had detained 520 people suspected of links to Al Qaeda.
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BBC News
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| June 22, 2008 | -
Oil reached a record $139.89 a barrel. Four Western companies met with Iraq's Oil Ministry to finalize no-bid contracts to tap Iraqi oil fields, and the Nigerian government distributed billions of dollars of windfall to corrupt state officials. Thirty-five countries and 25 oil companies met in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to try to fix global oil prices, which have caused strikes, riots, and inflation around the world. Many OPEC countries blamed speculators for the price increase, as did some representatives of oil companies and oil-dependent industries. United States Energy Secretary Sam Bodman blamed supply and demand, as did lobbyists for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
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ABC
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AFP via Google
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BBC
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NYT
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Jakarta Post
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NYT
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LAT
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WP
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AP via Mercury News
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WYTV Ohio
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Bloomberg
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| June 16, 2008 | - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia pledged to calm the world by raising his kingdom's oil production.
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Independent
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| August 3, 2007 | - Colorado Republican
Congressman Tom Tancredo said that, if elected president, he would respond to terrorism on U.S. soil by bombing the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
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Slate
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| May 26, 2007 | -
Cairo customs officials prevented a smuggler from carrying 700 snakes onto a plane bound for Saudi Arabia.
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USA Today
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| April 29, 2007 | -
Saudi Arabia arrested 172 men suspected of plotting to fly planes into oil wells, execute mass prison breaks, and assassinate members of the Saudi royal family.
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Reuters
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| April 13, 2007 | - In Saudi Arabia, a widely circulated text message claimed melons entering the kingdom from Israel were infected with AIDS.
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Ynetnews
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| June 18, 2006 | -
Baboons in Saudi Arabia ruined a picnic.
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Arab News
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| May 16, 2006 | - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia asked newspapers to refrain from publishing pictures of women.
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AP via MyWay.com
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| February 24, 2006 | - In Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda attempted to bomb the Abqaiq oil facility but was thwarted. Two guards died in the attack.
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BBC News
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NineMSN
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| January 13, 2006 | - In Saudi Arabia 345 people were trampled to death while attempting to finish the “stoning-of-the-devil” ritual of the Hajj. “This was fate,” said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, “destined by God.” Officials said that they were working out a plan to allow 500,000 people to stone the devil per hour.
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The Seattle Times
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| January 6, 2006 | - A building collapsed in Mecca, killing 76 people.
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Forbes.com
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| November 11, 2005 | -
Saudi Arabia was told it could now join the World Trade Organization.
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BBC News
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| September 28, 2005 | - Karen Hughes visited Saudi Arabia and expressed hope that women in that country would someday be able to "fully participate in society." A woman in the audience countered, "We're all pretty happy." Another audience member charged that the United States had become "a right wing country" that did not allow freedom of the press.
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The New York Times
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| August 20, 2005 | - Peter Schoomaker, the Army's top general, revealed that the United States was developing a plan to keep at least 100,000 soldiers in Iraq through 2009. Senator Chuck Hagel (R., Nebr.) called the plan "complete folly." "It would further destabilize the Middle East," he said. "It would give Iran more influence, it would hurt Israel, it would put our allies over there in Saudi Arabia and Jordan in a terrible position."
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AP
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AP
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| August 1, 2005 | -
King Fahd died.
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New York Times
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| June 2, 2005 | -
Saudi Arabia was considering whether women should be allowed to drive.
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ABC News
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| April 4, 2005 | - In Mecca, a man stabbed his father to death after the father threatened to tattle on the man for not praying.
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Arab News
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| March 31, 2005 | - A Saudi Arabian princess was arrested for keeping slaves in Winchester, Massachusetts.
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BostonHerald.com
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| March 11, 2005 | - The United States announced plans to reduce the number of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay by freeing some and sending others to Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Yemen.
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The Guardian
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| February 11, 2005 | -
Saudi Arabia denied that it was shopping for nuclear weapons.
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Dailytimes.com.pk
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| December 30, 2004 | - Suicide bombers attacked Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry.
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New York Times
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| November 22, 2004 | - The mayor of Riyadh announced that no foreign observers would be welcome in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections, nor would women be able to participate as voters, or candidates.
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Arab News
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| September 23, 2004 | - After maintaining for three years that Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen captured in Afghanistan, was so grave a threat to the United States that merely permitting him to meet with his lawyer would fatally compromise national security, the Bush Administration (having been told by Justice Antonin Scalia that "the very core of liberty secured by our Anglo-Saxon system of separated powers has been freedom from indefinite imprisonment at the will of the Executive") declined to defend its case against Hamdi in open court and announced that he will be stripped of his citizenship and released in Saudi Arabia.
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Boston Globe, Washington Post, ZNet
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| September 2, 2004 | - Three people were trampled to death at an Ikea grand opening in Saudi Arabia.
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New York Times
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| July 24, 2004 | -
Saudi authorities found the severed head of an American hostage.
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The Age
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| June 19, 2004 | -
Saudi militants beheaded an American hostage.
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Reuters
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| June 10, 2004 | - There were reports of a Libyan plot to assassinate the Saudi royal family.
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New York Times
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| June 9, 2004 | - An American military contractor was shot dead in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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New York Times
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| May 31, 2004 | - Suspected Al Qaeda militants killed 22 people and took many hostages in an attack on the oil industry town of Khobar, in eastern Saudi Arabia.
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Reuters
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| May 23, 2004 | -
Oil prices were still near $40 a barrel, and OPEC rejected a Saudi Arabian proposal to increase oil production.
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New York Times
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| May 3, 2004 | -
Militants in Saudi Arabia attacked the offices of a Western engineering company and killed several people; one American engineer was dragged away behind a car.
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New York Times
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| April 22, 2004 | -
Suicide bombers attacked a government building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and
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New York Times
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| April 20, 2004 | - Bob Woodward's new book continued to shape the news; it was the source of accusations that the Bush Administration improperly diverted funds to prepare for the conquest of Iraq, and that Saudi Arabia promised President Bush to deliver low fuel prices to help with his reelection.
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New York Times
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| March 11, 2004 | -
Saudi Arabia established its first nongovernmental human-rights group.
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New York Times
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| January 22, 2004 | -
Saudi Arabia's highest-ranking cleric said that women's rights are anti-Islamic.
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New York Times
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| December 17, 2003 | -
Saudi Arabia banned the importation of stuffed animals, female dolls, crucifixes, and statues of the Buddha.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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| November 10, 2003 | - A suicide car bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killed 17 people, including 5 children, in a housing compound inhabited by foreign workers. Al Qaeda was blamed for the attack.
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Associated Press
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| August 31, 2003 | - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia told Muslim clerics that it was time to start fighting religious extremism.
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Reuters
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| August 2, 2003 | - According to those who have read it, the redacted section lays out far more financial connections between the September 11 hijackers, fifteen of whom were Saudi, and the Saudi government than had been previously revealed.
The most specific allegations concerned Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi man who had provided funds and assistance to two of the hijackers in San Diego; the classified section says that Al Bayoumi received $3,000 per month from the Saudi government, and speculates that he may have been employed by Saudi intelligence.
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Los Angeles Times
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| July 30, 2003 | - President George W. Bush refused to declassify the twenty-eight pages of Congress's September 11 report that pertained to Saudi Arabia, despite calls to do so by members of Congress and by the Saudi government itself, which said it intended to rebut the contents.
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New York Times
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| July 30, 2003 | - The Saudis were continuing to capture suspected Al Qaeda militants in police raids; the government insisted that most of those captured had been trained in Afghanistan, but admitted that a few "perhaps were trained on farms and the like inside the country."
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Los Angeles Times
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| July 25, 2003 | - A joint congressional committee released an 850-page report concluding that the September 11 attacks could have been prevented; a 28-page section detailing the Saudi Arabian government's links to the terrorists was redacted.
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AP
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| June 15, 2003 | -
Police in Saudi Arabia said they had prevented a terrorist attack when they raided a booby-trapped apartment in Mecca; five militants and two police officers died in the shootout.
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Newsday
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| May 16, 2003 | -
Robert Jordan, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, accused Saudi Arabia of ignoring a recent request for more security in Riyadh.
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| May 15, 2003 | - Car bombs killed 34 people, including nine terrorists, at foreign compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Al Qaeda was blamed for the attacks, which were carried out by 15 Saudi citizens.
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| December 24, 2002 | -
The Department of Justice added Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Armenia to the list of countries whose adult male citizens residing in the U.S. must register with federal authorities but later dropped Armenia after it was pointed out that most Armenians are Christian.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Afghan refugees, particularly children, were dying in great numbers; Uzbekistan finally agreed to allow humanitarian aid to cross its border at the “Friendship Bridge.” The CIA asked Pakistan for help in finding Osama bin Laden, whose mother told a Saudi newspaper that she was disappointed in her son.
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Saudi Arabia's King Faisal Specialist Hospital filed suit in the Grand Islamic court seeking $2.9 billion from tobacco companies to cover 25 years of treating smoking-related illnesses.
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| December 4, 2001 | -
President Bush again warned the terrorists of the world to watch out and made a foray into lexicography: “If anybody harbors a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they fund a terrorist, they're a terrorist. If they house terrorists, they're terrorists. I mean, I can't make it any more clearly to other nations around the world.” Saudi Arabia was still refusing to freeze terrorists' bank accounts.
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| December 4, 2001 | -
Saudi Arabia was not yet on the list.
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| October 30, 2001 | -
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd asked his people to pray for rain.
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| October 9, 2001 | - An American was killed by a package bomb in Saudi Arabia.
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| July 24, 2001 | - Human-rights groups were putting the finishing touches on Peekabooty, anticensorship software that would defeat all Web filters and allow Internet users in countries such as Saudi Arabia, China, and North Korea access to government-censored sites.
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| May 22, 2001 | -
Police in Saudi Arabia gave seven teenage boys 15 lashes each for leering at women at shopping malls; the offenses included slipping girls phone numbers, whistling, talking to them, even winking.
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Saudi Arabia banned Pokémon because it has “possessed the minds” of children and “promotes Zionism.”
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| March 20, 2001 | - Chechen terrorists hijacked a Russian plane and flew it to Saudi Arabia, landing in the holy city of Medina.
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