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...Zubaydah, one of the highest-ranking al-Qaeda officials in U.S. custody, came after a detainee interrogated by Saudi authorities revealed Abu Zubaydah's whereabouts. The sources also said the U.S. Hellfire missile--equipped drones hunting terrorists in the region are operating from Saudi territory. But sources on Capitol Hill say that unless Riyadh takes further steps to crack down on Saudis believed to be financing terrorists, Congress may move to slash U.S. military aid to Saudi Arabia and restrict visas granted to Saudi citizens...
...Seth P. Waxman. The court should stand with those who want to stop vote buying and influence mongering, not the motley alliance that favors the present situation: entrenched political interests like unions, behemoth corporations like Enron and lobbying groups like the National Rifle Association that call the shots on Capitol Hill...
...Saudi Arabia's harshest critics in the media and on Capitol Hill have sought to portray the kingdom's rulers as intimately involved with al-Qaeda terrorism, although some of the evidence offered to support these claims is far from convincing - the suggestion that Princess Haifa, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington sent money to 9/11 hijackers, for example, turns out to be based on a charitable check she wrote to a woman who, unbeknownst to the princess, had signed it over to a man who made brief loan to two of the hijackers without knowing their terrorist...
...will be vigilant," al-Jubeir promised in Washington. "We will be determined. And we will be merciless when it comes to dealing with terrorism and those who perpetrate it." But given the relentless tide of skepticism on Capitol Hill and in the media, al-Jubeir has his work...
...that it hasn't stuck by the accord suggests it has been pursuing a two-track strategy to get the bomb. Instead of plutonium, the fissile material for atomic weapons can also be enriched uranium. (That's how the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was made.) In a report to Capitol Hill staffers in the U.S. last week, the CIA said Pyongyang in 2001 started seeking materials to build a production plant to turn out enriched uranium in large quantities. If the facility comes online in two or three years, as the spy agency suggests it could, North Korea could have...