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Saudi Arabia and Al-Qaeda
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| 05 July 2002 |
Arab governments, eager to prove their anti-terrorism credentials, have been scoring some notable successes against Al-Qaeda in recent weeks. However, the US-led war against terrorism has taken some bizarre twists that underline how the campaign can produce some awkward complications.
Recent events also heighten the paradox that some countries long deemed key US allies - such as Saudi Arabia - are considered less than helpful in the war against terror, while other states remaining on the US State Department's blacklist of terrorist sponsors, such as Syria and Sudan, are apparently proving more co-operative than their pariah status would suggest.
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