Word: pussyfooted
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...terrorism, Washington has a right to expect all the help it can get. It is clear that some Saudis give financial support to terrorist groups and that others join them. Of the 19 hijackers, 15 are thought to have been Saudis. The house of Saud has no reason to pussyfoot with terrorists. Osama bin Laden has made plain that the Saudi regime is his ultimate target. Saudi rulers know all about Islamic militancy. They have been dealing with it--rather effectively and rarely with kid gloves--since Ibn Saud's forces slaughtered the religious zealots of the Ikhwan...