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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (157209)	5/13/2003 12:59:21 PM
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<<Pockets of 'decadence'>> For the Saudi princes, the timing of the attacks on foreigners in Riyadh is especially painful. The relationship with the US has long been a source of tension It is not just that they occurred on the eve of a visit by the US Secretary of State Colin Powell. They came only a few days after the US said it would withdraw its 10,000 military personnel from the country by the end of the summer. Their withdrawal had long been one of the main demands of the al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden - and the princes must have hoped their departure would ease the pressure on them from radical Islamists. Pockets of 'decadence' But even when the military personnel have gone, some 30,000 American civilians will remain - together with tens of thousands of Europeans, Canadians, Japanese and other expatriates. Most live in walled compounds, where alcohol flows and the sexes mingle - and for militant Islamists the compounds are symbols not just of a resented Western presence, but of Western decadence. news.bbc.co.uk

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