Saudi Arabia

A community portal about Saudi Arabia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest country on the Arabian Peninsula. It borders Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south, with the Persian Gulf to its northeast and the Red Sea to its west. It is called "the land of the two holy mosques", a reference to Mecca and Medina, Islam's two holiest places. In English, it is most commonly referred to as Saudi Arabia, often as just Saudi by many English-speaking expatriates in the kingdom, or, less commonly as KSA. Arabia is sometimes also used to refer to the nation, but the term can also refer to the entire Peninsula and its varied nations, and sometimes the entire Arab World, and is thus ambiguous.

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'Generously funded' effort by Saudis 'radicalized U.S. troops'

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From: menorahblog.typepad.com

WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has been identified as the source of the growing Islamization in the U.S. military.

A leading analyst said that Saudi Arabia spent millions of dollars in its effort to convert U.S. soldiers to Islam. The analyst said the campaign by Riyad began during the 1991 war against Iraq, which involved the deployment of nearly 500,000 U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia. More