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Saudi Arabia

Disinformation, Saudi-style

Touchy Topics in the Gulf

From “Customs and Culture,” a chapter in the troop-information pamphlet distributed by the U.S. Central Command to all U.S. armed forces in Saudi Arabia. Soldiers are encouraged to keep this…

Readings

Drawn by J. Morin,

A dilemma for the disinformed

by Craig Karpel,

A U.S.-Saudi colloquy, maybe

Island of instability

by Frank Henry Gervasi,

Saudi Arabia, the Gulf's latest protector

Consorting with Arabs

by L. J. Davis,

The friends oil buys

The arms overstock

by Michael T. Klare,

Canceled orders, repossessed items, will sacrifice

Buy

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Eagles, doves, and hawks

by Tom Gervasi,

Arming the world in order to arm ourselves

The Arabian ethos

by Peter A. Iseman,

Speeding the pilgrims to Mecca

by William T. (William Thomas) Ellis,