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Saudi Arabia initially said it would not join a second war in Iraq, but agreed to allow the U.S.-led coalition to use its airspace and the Prince Sultan Air Base. Two weeks after the attack was launched, government-appointed clerics told Saudi leaders that Saddam and his regime weren't worth fighting for. However, there have been reports that some Saudis crossed the border and joined the Iraqi regime's fight against coalition forces.
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Saudi Arabia continues to pursue rapid industrial expansion, led by the petrochemical sector. The Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), a parastatal petrochemical company, is now one of the world's leading petrochemical producers, and the government promotes private sector involvement in petrochemicals. The government ... plans new investments in the mining sector and in refining,
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As agreements for the massive Eurofighter Typhoon sale to Saudi Arabia were being finalised, a CAAT researcher unearthed secrets of the previous Al Yamamah contract. The Government was so worried that it has retrieved the files from The National Archive. Read about it in The Guardian, October 2006
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The killing of two Indonesian domestic workers by their employers in Saudi Arabia highlights the Saudi government’s ongoing failure to hold employers accountable for serious abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. The brutal beatings by these employers ... left two other Indonesian domestic workers critically injured.
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A second bomb exploded at the Khobar Towers, just outside an airbase in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia on 25 June 1996. Nineteen American servicemen were killed and 100 were seriously injured in the blast. Speculation that bin Laden was behind the bombings has more recently been dismissed, but the U.S. Justice Department has charged that the Saudi Government is withholding evidence and hindering the investigation into the bombing.
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Corruption has been a recurrent feature with regards to arms deals to Saudi Arabia. Records from the National Archive dating from the late 1960's and early 1970's, show that the corruption was known about by officials in the Government's Defence Sales Organisation who turned an amused blind eye. In a letter in 1971 letter the then UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia described Prince Sultan, Saudi Defence Minister then and still today, as having "a corrupt interest in all contracts .."
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