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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43090)	8/9/2002 1:36:54 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Four Pakistanis, including three nurses, died in an apparent grenade attack on a Christian missionary hospital in Pakistan on Friday, and up to 20 people were wounded, hospital and police officials said. A police source said one attacker appeared to have blown himself up in the assault, which comes four days after six Pakistanis were shot dead in a gun attack on a Christian missionary school northeast of Islamabad. "The nurses were coming out of the chapel when someone threw explosives," said Clement Bakhshi, an accounts officer at the hospital in Taxila, around 12 miles west of the capital Islamabad. "Three of our nurses have expired and up to 20 people have been injured, most of them nurses." All those killed and wounded were Pakistanis, a hospital official said. Two of the wounded were in serious condition. The nurses killed were all female as were most of the wounded. A police source in Taxila said there were three attackers. "One was killed and two fled, and the explosives were tied to the body of the one who died." Pakistani officials said the raid on Monday, on a school for foreign students in the resort town of Murree, appeared to be aimed at the foreign community rather than a minority faith in Muslim-majority Pakistan.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (43090)	9/5/2002 12:44:51 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 50167

Saudi Arabia and the United States appear to be on a "damage control mission" following the Pentagon briefing by a Rand Corp analyst terming Saudi Arabia an enemy of the United States at every level of terrorism. Well Ike, it would be nice if they spent more time "educating" their own people about the "special relationship" the US and Saudi Arabia have than the average American.. Because what we see are the reports from ex-pats living over there and how they are beginning to doubt their safety within SA. guardian.co.uk Or maybe they should encourage their "princes" to spend more time catering to the needs of the people than smuggling tonnes of cocaine on their private jets while operating under "diplomatic immunity": guardian.co.uk miami.com While the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration identifies Al-Shaalan as a prince, Saudi officials on Thursday continued to deny that Al-Shaalan is related to the royal family. ''We don't have anything that ties him in, by blood or by marriage,'' said Nail Al-Jubeir, deputy director of information at the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Washington. But federal sources said Al-Shaalan is the son-in-law of Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, second in line to the throne behind his half-brother, King Fahd. Al-Shaalan is married to one of the crown prince's daughters, the federal sources said. Based on the marriage, Al-Shaalan would have a diplomatic stamp in his passport that would afford him special treatment for entry into many countries, but not the United States. His diplomatic status is key to the indictment unsealed Wednesday in Miami. According to the DEA, Al-Shaalan told Colombian suppliers that he could take advantage of his diplomatic privileges to transport more than two tons of cocaine on his private jet from Caracas to Paris in May 1999. The drugs have a wholesale street value of approximately $40 million in the United States. So this guy is hiding out in Saudi Arabia and not being turned over to the US, but they claim he's a "nobody"?? The sum of all this Ike is that the Saudi-US relationship has fallen under a microscope and various parties on both sides are using the cultural differences to incite hostility so as to gain support for their particular agendas. Personally, I think Saudi Arabia is at risk of going the way of Iran, where the US was seen protecting a corrupt regime. And unless the US steps in and creates the dynamics that will lead to political, social, and economic reform, all of those young muslims will loose faith in their future, seeking their future in the past. Hawk