The State Department was little help on this, or on much else about Saudi Arabia.

In February 2006, Angola surpassed Saudi Arabia to become the number one supplier of oil to China.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

* Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen

* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.

* 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.

The world of Arab music has long been dominated by Cairo, a cultural center, though musical innovation and regional styles abound from Morocco to Saudi Arabia.

Omari came from Asir Province, a poor region in southwestern Saudi Arabia that borders Yemen, and graduated with honours from high school, attained a degree from the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, was married, and had a daughter.

He is alleged to have often served as an Imam at his mosque in Saudi Arabia and is believed by American Authorities to have been a student of a Saudi cleric named Sulayman al Alwan, whose mosque is located in Al-Qassim Province.

A man with the same name as those given by the FBI turned up alive in Saudi Arabia, saying that he had studied at the University of Denver and his passport was stolen there in 1995.

* Amputation is used as a legal punishment in a number of countries, among them Iran, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Islamic regions of Nigeria.

Born in Saudi Arabia, Nami had served as a muezzin and was a college student.

Nami, much like Abdulaziz al-Omari, Wail al-Shehri, Waleed al-Shehri, and Mohand al-Shehri was born in the ' Asir Province in Saudi Arabia.

Born to the Quraish tribe of Saudi Arabia, Nami served as a muezzin at the Seqeley mosque after having reportedly become very religious sometime in early 1999.

By October he had taken a prospective hijacker Mushabib al-Hamlan from Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia where they both procured B-1 / B-2 tourist / business visas on October 28 – but Hamlan then decided not to proceed and is thought to have returned to his family.

In mid-November 2000, the 9 / 11 Commission believes that Nami, Wail and Waleed al-Shehri, all of whom had obtained their U. S. visas in late October, traveled in a group from Saudi Arabia to Beirut and then onward to Iran where they could travel through to Afghanistan without getting their passports stamped.

This probably followed their return to Saudi Arabia to get " clean " passports.

Ahmed al-Haznawi was the son of a Saudi imam from the Al-Bahah province, which is located in an isolated and underdeveloped part of Saudi Arabia.

On November 12, 2000, Haznawi applied for and received a two-year US B-1 / B-2 ( tourist / business ) visa in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

From November 27, 2000 through December 27, 2000, Haznawi was in Saudi Arabia for Ramadan.

In Saudi Arabia, eating in public during the daytime is prohibited during the Muslim month of Ramadan.

In Saudi Arabia, all businesses except hospitals are made to close during Islamic prayers, held five times daily.

Saudi Arabia has provided enormous financial assistance to Bosnia-Herzegovina since its independence in 1992.

They were soon joined by Lieutenant Colonel Ted Sahlin's 96th Civil Affairs Battalion ( Airborne ) from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which had only returned to the U. S. two weeks before after having been deployed to Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait for the past 10 months.

All OIC states – including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, three countries that officially recognised the Taliban government – joined the protest to spare the monuments.

Around 1963, Saudi Arabia and Egypt joined in the civil war.

In December 1979 he moved to Saudi Arabia, where he joined the Madrassah Al-Saltiyyah studying and completing a Diploma in Jami ' Al-Qur ' an.

According to an interview with " Jamestown Special Correspondent " Mahan Abedin, Omar Bakri joined Hizb-ut-Tahrir ( HT ) in Beirut and maintained contacts with it in Cairo, and started an HT cells in Saudi Arabia " where " by 1983 I had built a team of 38 brothers.

In November 2007, al-Jubeir joined Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal for the meeting of the Arab League Foreign Ministers in Cairo in preparation for the Annapolis Peace Conference.

Several of Shehri's brothers joined the Saudi military, while his uncle may have been a major in the army and director of logistics.

" The annexation formed part of Jordan ’ s " Greater Syria Plan " expansionist policy, and in response, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Syria joined Egypt in demanding Jordan ’ s expulsion from the Arab League.

In 1933, IPC joined negotiations for an oil concession in Al-Hasa province, Saudi Arabia, bidding against Standard Oil of California ( SOCAL, later renamed Chevron ).

Five months later he joined the Saudi government as President of the Affairs of the Holy Mosques Masjid al-Haram ( Grand Mosque ) in Mecca and Al-Masjid al-Nabawi ( Prophet's Mosque ) in Medina.

Other projects in which he served as consultant include the retrofitting of bridges across Saudi Arabia, the proposed bridge across the Strait of Gibraltar, and the proposed Inter-Continental Peace Bridge ( ICPB ) which would have joined Alaska and Siberia.

He joined Al Nassr FC in Saudi Arabia on 12 January 2012, to become the club goalkeeper coach.

He joined Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad after being sent away by Gamba Osaka due to disciplinary problems.

Saudi intelligence joined Pakistan's intelligence service and the CIA in funding the mujahideen.

Najran joined the newly announced Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1934 as a result of the efforts and struggles of sheikh Jabir Abu sag, the Leader of one large clan of the Yam tribe.

Yamani took the lead role in the development of this idea and in 1968 the Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries was joined by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Libya.

A group of islands 20 miles east of the Arabian peninsula and joined to Saudi Arabia by causeway.

Mr. Weatherall joined the Jardine Group in 1976 and worked in a number of senior executive positions in Hong Kong, the USA, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Korea and the Philippines, prior to becoming " Taipan ".

In August 2005 Kassas joined the Saudi team Al-Qadisiya on a one-season contract.

After a loan in Saudi Arabia, Antchouet joined Larissa F. C.