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A Saudi newspaper close to the government has called for a review of the kingdom's long-standing and close relationship with the United States. A front-page editorial in Al-Riyadh newspaper says there is a need to revise Saudi Arabia's international strategic relations. The article comes only a day after relatives of victims of the 11 September attacks launched a big lawsuit against people they accuse of helping finance the al-Qaeda network, including members of the Saudi royal family. Although the paper does not refer to this, it does mention a recent Pentagon briefing during which oil-rich Saudi Arabia was accused of...

WASHINGTON, July 31 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - In its latest issue, a U.S. weekly magazine questioned the U.S.’s reluctance to isolate Saudi Arabia and posed several questions on its strategic importance to the U.S. Under an article titled “Do we still need the Saudis?”, Time questioned the notion of oil sustaining the alliance between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, and whether this still applies, now that the U.S. has found alternative oil sources. Saudi Arabia controls 30% of the world’s known oil reserves, said Time, and that is why for years, “in the interest of maintaining the world’s supply...