With King Fahd disabled and Crown Prince Abdullah media-shy, Prince Saud al-Faisal, the long-time foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, is the highest ranking official in the country willing to conduct both public and personal interviews (Alter 1). ... According to a New York Times article back in May of 2001, Crown Prince Abdullah rejected an invitation to visit the United States in June 2001, to show displeasure over what they regarded as insufficient U.S. efforts to stop Israel military action against the Palestinians. ... While they would support action they would not have to participate in...

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West Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said any alleged ties between Hussein and Al Qaeda "are tenuous at best and not compelling." ... But weeks of searches in Iraq by military experts have not validated the administration's portrayal of Iraq's weapons capabilities-(Associated Press). ...

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After he finished junior high, he applied to the prestigious Baghdad Military Academy but since he had poor grades, he wasn't accepted which led him to go deeper and deeper into politics. ... In 1964, a rightist military officer who opposed the Baathist takeover jailed Hussein. ... During the next few days, more then 450 people were rounded up and killed, Hussein personally killed high-ranking members of the Baath party including Shiite member of Command and the head of the labor union. ...

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