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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (227)	11/12/2001 9:56:53 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32591

Saudi anger with the West In a shaded courtyard in a whitewashed villa, we sat on cushions, sipping tea so sweet it made my teeth grate. My grey-bearded Saudi host leaned forward, tucking his gnarled feet beneath his pure white robe. "You must tell your people in the West," he hissed in Arabic. "They must stop the bombing in Afghanistan. If it continues, even women will rise up and confront the Americans." This was fighting talk from a man who has sent his own son to wage war alongside the Taleban. He told me that countless Saudis praised Osama Bin Laden because of his support for the Palestinian and other Muslim causes. He added that hundreds of young Saudis had gone to fight in Afghanistan since 11 September. From behind a screen came a high-pitched cough. His wife, I learned, had opposed sending her son to die in a far-off country. We were in Buraida, a bleak, desert town known to be a stronghold of militant Islamism. Since the attacks on the United States it has become a place of checkpoints, undercover informers and arbitrary arrests. It is also not a place to walk around in as a lone Westerner. Approaching the cloth market, I drew shrieks from veiled women. "What's that bloody American doing here? Get him out!" they shouted. I flagged down a taxi and retreated to the capital, Riyadh. news.bbc.co.uk