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RIYADH, 2 April 2003 - Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal has urged Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to make a war-ending "sacrifice" for his people. "Since Saddam has asked his people to sacrifice for the country... he should be the first to sacrifice for his country," the prince said in an interview with ABC News, aired late Monday. Prince Saud made the comments to correspondent Barbara Walters who asked him whether the Iraqi leader had to be removed from power. The Saudi minister later clarified that he did not call on the Iraqi president to step down, but only advised...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 — Saudi Arabia's leaders have made far-reaching decisions to prepare for an era of military disengagement from the United States, to enact what Saudi officials call the first significant democratic reforms at home, and to rein in the conservative clergy that has shared power in the kingdom. Senior members of the royal family say the decisions, reached in the past month, are the result of a continuing debate over Saudi Arabia's future and have not yet been publicly announced. But these princes say Crown Prince Abdullah will ask President Bush to withdraw all American armed forces from...

LONDON, 29 August — Saudi Arabia has helped stop funds worth between $70 million and $90 million from reaching Al-Qaeda network in the past few months, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal announced yesterday. Speaking to the BBC radio, Prince Saud said he thought there was still a "very serious" threat from Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden’s organization blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks. "We expect the worst and work for the worst and this is why we are so active in the pursuit of everything that allows us to find information, provide it to our friends and allies and work together...

Filed at 4:47 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- The foreign ministers of three key Arab states are nearly jubilant over President Bush's latest stand on the Middle East: a firm commitment to a Palestinian state by mid-2005 and a determination to force Israel to quit the West Bank and Gaza. The ministers of Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia met with Bush for only 30 minutes at the White House on Thursday. But they devoted hours afterward telling reporters how pleased they were with what they heard. Bush previously had backed establishment of a Palestinian state, the first president to take...