<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Islamic Activists Sweep Saudi Council Elections]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12398-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12398-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, April 23  --  Saudi Arabia's limited 10-week experiment with electoral democracy ended here Saturday in a sweeping victory for slates of Islamic activists marketed as the "Golden List," who used grass-roots organizing, digital technology and endorsements from popular religious leaders to defeat their liberal and tribal rivals, even here in Jiddah, for decades Saudi Arabia's most diverse and business-driven city.]]></description><author> Steve Coll</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doctor of N.Va. Terror Suspect to Look for Signs of Torture]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13092-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13092-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An American student charged in a conspiracy to kill President Bush can have his own doctor examine him for evidence that he was tortured while in Saudi custody, a federal judge in Alexandria ruled yesterday.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking Free]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64631-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64631-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Her poetry is her fuel.<br>It has carried her across boundaries assumed non-traversable: book signings and readings in mixed company at home in Saudi Arabia and abroad; the first publication in the United States of a collection of poems by a Saudi woman; uncontested exposure in the Saudi and...]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Arab Writers, New Lines in the Sand]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38700-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38700-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Each day she sits alone, scribbling thoughts on scraps of paper. She stuffs them in a bottle given to her years earlier by her grandmother, who said it should serve as a place for private feelings that Arab society would not tolerate from a woman if uttered aloud.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudis Detail Alleged Libyan Murder Plot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28178-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28178-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia has concluded that a Libyan plot to assassinate the kingdom's de facto ruler in late 2003 was cloaked to look like an al Qaeda-inspired domestic revolt and was broken up only days before it was to have been carried out, according to documents.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudis Tell Syria to Leave Lebanon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4500-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4500-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Crown Prince Abdullah warned Syria on Thursday that it is at risk of damaging relations with Saudi Arabia if it does not begin removing its troops from Lebanon.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egyptian Living in Md. Accused of Smuggling Countrymen Into U.S.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2722-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2722-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A former driver for Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington appeared in federal court in Alexandria yesterday on charges that he used fraudulent documents to smuggle Egyptians into the United States from 1999 to 2001.]]></description><author> Allan Lengel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Turns Up Heat on Syria to Leave Lebanon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A229-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A229-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush lashed out at Syria Wednesday as his administration outlined a three-pronged strategy to increase pressure on Damascus to quickly withdraw its troops and intelligence services from Lebanon.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lebanese Opposition  To Meet With President]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2998-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2998-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BEIRUT, March 2 -- Lebanese opposition leaders announced Wednesday that they would send a delegation to meet with President Emile Lahoud, who is trying to form a new government, but would use the opportunity to press their central demand that Syria withdraw its 15,000 troops and its intelligence agents from Lebanon.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[N.Va. Man Admitted Terror Plot, Agent Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64200-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64200-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A judge denied bail Tuesday for an American student charged in an alleged conspiracy to kill President Bush after an FBI agent testified that he had admitted plotting with al Qaeda to conduct a Sept. 11-style terror attack.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Terror Suspect Must Show  He's No Danger to Make Bail]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61341-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61341-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It is a premise as old as the American legal system: The government has the burden of proof in criminal cases, and the accused is not required to say a word in his defense.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. to Press Arab Nations to Pay Pledges Made to Palestinians]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54549-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54549-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans next week to press oil-rich Arab nations to make good on hundreds of millions of dollars that was pledged to the Palestinian Authority -- but never delivered.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Vote Stirs New Enthusiasm]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48431-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48431-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ibrahim H. Quayid turned up just before midnight, a snow-bearded campaign consultant at his arm. A dozen businessmen and scholars waited eagerly in a Jiddah executive's private reception room nestled amid shopping malls and Red Sea breezes.]]></description><author> Steve Coll</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosecutors Say Va. Man Not Tortured]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48751-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48751-2005Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Federal prosecutors denied yesterday that an American student charged in an al Qaeda plot to kill President Bush was tortured in Saudi Arabia and called him a "grave danger" to the United States.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon and Steve Coll</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Va. Man Charged in Plot]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43940-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43940-2005Feb22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, is accused of plotting to assassinate President Bush and trying to establish an al Qaeda cell in the United States.]]></description><author> Jerry Markon and Dana Priest</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Indicts Oregon Charity Linked to Saudis]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36678-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36678-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal grand jury has indicted an Oregon charity affiliated with the Saudi Arabian government on charges of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government by concealing its alleged efforts to funnel $150,000 to Muslim fighters in Chechnya.]]></description><author> John Mintz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CIA Says War Helps Recruit Terrorists]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28876-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28876-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The U.S. occupation in Iraq has become a potent recruiting tool for al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, top U.S. national security officials told Congress Wednesday.]]></description><author> Dana Priest and Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Islamic Leaders' Role in Saudi Ballot Criticized]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19772-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19772-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Dozens of losing candidates in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections complained Saturday that the winners in the capital, Riyadh, unfairly used the endorsement of influential Islamic leaders to secure victory.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Offers Judge Secret Evidence To Decide Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17498-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17498-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  The U.S. government asked a judge yesterday to dismiss a Falls Church couple's challenge of their son's imprisonment based on reasons and evidence that would be kept secret from the family and the public.]]></description><author> Carol D. Leonnig</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Men Vote in Limited Elections]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13042-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13042-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/saudiarabia/post</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 2:50:28 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia began its tentative experiment in democracy Thursday as thousands of men filed into schools, government offices and streetside tents to cast what for many were the first votes of their lives.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item></channel></rss>