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The King of Saudi Arabia has strongly criticized the country's intelligence officials for disclosing a secret document, which shows Riyadh has links with terrorist activities carried out by al-Qaeda in Iraq. According to a report by Iraq's Buratha news agency on Friday, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz ordered a special committee to investigate the intelligence leak and inform him about those liable in the case. Some 37 members of Saudi's intelligence service, accused of being behind the leakage of the confidential document, were also reported to have been arrested.

Filmmaker Michael Moore's latest effort, Fahrenheit 9/11, has set a higher goal for itself than most films: regime change.The title, which is a modern take on the classic science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 about a degenerate futuristic society, is fitting in more than one way. The Fahrenheit scale, representing a system of temperature measurement unique to the United States and a few other countries, is analogous to the film's distinctive undertaking: to unseat a president. In essence, the critical offensive to which Moore subjects President George W Bush is a phenomenon that no one in the rest of the world -...

Since Sept. 11 there has been growing skepticism toward the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, both as an ally that does not share our goals and values and as the key supplier of oil. To reinforce this position, some critics have maintained that we will soon not need Saudi oil, and that the kingdom's role of supplier of last resort can be replaced by a new energy colossus, Russia. This reasoning is essentially flawed and could bring disaster if followed to its logical consequences. With estimated oil reserves of 260 billion barrels, Saudi Arabia produces 7.4 million barrels a day. Russia,...