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

To: Scoobah who wrote (577)	11/25/2001 10:06:34 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

U.S. CONTINUES TO PRESS SAUDIS ON AFGHAN WAR November 25, 2001 The Middle East Newsline reports: “The Bush administration is quietly pressing Saudi Arabia to demonstrate greater cooperation in the war in Afghanistan. Administration sources said the pressure has been behind the scenes and intends to obtain Riyad's approval for the provision of military assets for the United States in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula as well as the launching of measures against Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden and his allies. Riyad, the sources said, had initially hesitated in helping the United States after the Islamic suicide attacks on New York and Washington. But more than two months later, the kingdom has begun to meet some of the administration's requests. ‘I've seen cooperation on some very sensitive issues in terms of military requirements that the Pentagon has put on them,’ former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy said. ‘They have met them. They have not met them instantly because they don't work at high speed in some of these issues. They have to build their consensus and get back to us. But, in the end, they've met us. They met us on Desert Storm [in 1991], and they're meeting us now on Afghanistan.’…”