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To: TimF who wrote (352754)	9/29/2007 5:22:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573857

Most of the Arabs didn't. I'll have to disagree: "The United States has said that virtually all its troops, except some training personnel, are to be pulled out of Saudi Arabia. The BBC's Middle East analyst Roger Hardy says this is a strategic shift of great political as well as military significance. Ever since the 1991 Gulf war, the US has had about 5,000 troops stationed in Saudi Arabia - a figure that rose to 10,000 during the recent conflict in Iraq. Technically US troops there have been part of Operation Southern Watch, which has enforced the no-fly zone over southern Iraq set up after 1991. But our correspondent says the US troops have become a potent symbol of Washington's role in the region, and many Saudis see them as proof of the country's subservience to America. Saudi Arabia is home to some of Islam's holiest sites and the deployment of US forces there was seen as a historic betrayal by many Islamists, notably Osama Bin Laden." news.bbc.co.uk