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Those friends know the Administration needs them for a potential showdown with Iraq. Any U.S. operation would likely require the use of bases in Saudi Arabia or an alternate Gulf state such as Qatar or Kuwait. Diplomats in the region told TIME many Arab leaders say they will not offer support to an anti-Iraq campaign while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is boiling. Expressing skepticism about the U.S. war on terrorism in an interview with TIME, Abdullah said that "America cannot fight this war alone" and that he does "not believe that the war on terrorism applies to Iran...
Abdullah's plan, first reported in the New York Times, anticipates Arab nations' granting Israel a full peace and normalization of relations in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, Gaza and other territories seized in the 1967 war. Given Saudi Arabia's weight in the Arab world, because of its oil wealth and stewardship of the two holy cities, the promise to Israel of an eventual "warm peace" is potentially significant. In an interview with TIME, Abdullah went out of his way to acknowledge that Israelis as well as Palestinians have suffered. "On one side," he said...
...city on earth. Set in a small valley surrounded by barren hills, the town lives on one trade, as reflected in an old local saying: "We sow no wheat or sorghum, the pilgrims are our crops." Scores of languages can be heard, and a multiplicity of cuisines is available: Arab, Indonesian, Turkish, Indian, Pakistani, Lebanese...
...announcing that Victor Bout, wanted by Interpol on charges of arming the al-Qaeda network, "for sure is not in Russia," Bout was giving a live interview to Ekho Moskvi radio, just a short distance from the Kremlin. Bout, who runs his air-cargo empire from the United Arab Emirates, denied allegations of illegal arms trafficking in the interview and confirmed that he "never had any problems traveling across Russia...
MIDDLE EAST A Princely Plan and Hopes for Peace E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana visited Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt to discuss a plan put forward by Saudi Arabia's Prince Abdullah that promises recognition of Israel by Arab states in return for a withdrawal from occupied territories. But violence continued, and hours after a Palestinian woman blew herself up at a checkpoint, Israel Defense Forces mounted an assault on West Bank refugee camps for the first time in the 17 months of fighting since the declaration of the Aqsa intifadeh...