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Saudi and Arabian
* 1976 – Nawaf al-Hazmi, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 ( d. 2001 )
* 1972 – Hani Hanjour, Saudi Arabian terrorist, hijacker of American Airlines Flight 77 ( d. 2001 )
* 1972 – Mohamed Al-Deayea, Saudi Arabian footballer
* 1974 – Zubayr Al-Rimi, Saudi Arabian terrorist ( d. 2003 )
* 1982 – Ibrahim al-Asiri, Saudi Arabian terrorist
At first, the FBI had named Abdul Rahman al-Omari, a pilot for Saudi Arabian Airlines, as the pilot of Flight 11.
* portal. telegraph. co. uk ( Article which reports that the Saudi Arabian Airlines pilot named Omari was not involved with the terrorist attacks )
Category: Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda members
* 1981 – Malek Mouath, Saudi Arabian footballer
Category: Saudi Arabian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Category: Saudi Arabian expatriates in Pakistan
Category: Saudi Arabian torture victims
After the attacks, an employee of Saudi Arabian Airlines named Ahmed al-Nami came forward to say that he feared his identity had been stolen, although he had never lost his passport.
Category: Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda members
Category: Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda members
* 1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
In December 1993, during UNOSOM II, a Saudi Arabian HMMWV departs for the seaport of Mogadishu, Somalia.
The desert is in the southwest and central provinces along the borders with Saudi Arabia and Jordan and geographically belongs with the Arabian Peninsula.
The desert zone, an area lying west and southwest of the Euphrates River, is a part of the Syrian Desert and Arabian Desert, which covers sections of Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia and most of the Arabian Peninsula.
Starting in the mid-1970s the Islamic resurgence was funded by an abundance of money from Saudi Arabian oil exports.
Another factor in the early 1990s that worked to radicalize the Islamist movement was the Gulf War, which brought several hundred thousand US and allied non-Muslim military personnel to Saudi Arabian soil to put an end to Saddam Hussein's occupation of Kuwait.
But Saddam embraced Islamic rhetoric and attacked Saudi Arabia, his enemy in the war, for violating Islamic unity and its role as custodian of the two holy cities by allowing non-Muslims on its soil ( traditional Muslim belief holds that non-Muslims must not be allowed on the Arabian peninsula ), and he also accused the Kingdom of being a puppet of the west.
Iraq appeared to be mobilizing for a military invasion and on 27 June 1961 the emir of Kuwait requested assistance from the Saudi Arabian and British Governments.
Category: Saudi Arabian al-Qaeda members

Saudi and Oil
* 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
Drilling of the first oil well began at Jebel Dukhan in October 1938 and, over a year later, the well struck oil in the Upper Jurassic limestone which, unlike the Bahraimi strike, was similar to Saudi Arabia ’ s Dammam field discovered three years before .< ref >" The Qatar Oil Discoveries " by Rasoul Sorkhabi < http :// www. geoexpro. com / history / qatardiscoveries ></ ref > Production was halted between 1942 and 1947 because of World War II and its aftermath.
* 1998 – Formed joint venture Motiva with Shell Oil Company and Saudi Aramco in which the Star Enterprise operations were merged with the Eastern and Gulf Coast U. S. refining and marketing operations of Shell.
To this point, former Saudi Oil Minister Sheikh Yamani famously said in 1973: " The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.
Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938 by American geologists working for Standard Oil of California in partnership with Saudi officials.
Search for Security: Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy, 1939 – 1949.
A notable example is the Saudi national oil company, Saudi Aramco, which the Saudi government bought in 1988 and changed its name from Arabian American Oil Company to Saudi Arabian Oil Company.
Oil exporters such as Mexico, Nigeria, and Venezuela, whose economies had expanded in the 1970s, were plunged into near-bankruptcy, and even Saudi Arabian economic power was significantly weakened.
In May 1932, Standard Oil of California ( SoCal ) sought out Philby in its quest to obtain an oil concession in Saudi Arabia, ultimately signing Philby as a paid advisor to SoCal.
Philby, in turn, recognizing that competition by foreign interests would get a better deal for his friend, the Saudi King, made contact with Dr. George Lees, Chief Geologist of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, in order to alert him to SoCal's interest in gaining oil exploration rights in Saudi Arabia.
By 1980, the company was entirely owned by the Saudis, and in 1988, its name was changed to Saudi Arabian Oil Company ( Saudi Aramco ).

Saudi and Company
In addition to Egyptian programming, the Middle East Broadcast Company, a Saudi television station transmitting from London ( MBC ), Arab Radio and Television ( ART ), Al-Jazeera television, and other Gulf stations as well as Western networks such as CNN and BBC, provide access to more international programs to Egyptians who own satellite receivers.
In 2004, the Saudi Telecom Company ( STC ) monopolization was broken by authorizing Etihad Etisalat / Mobily to compete in mobile communication, in June 2009 GO Telecom ( Etihad Atheeb Telecom ) or " جو " also entered the market.
As part of its monopoly on all methods of communication in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Telecom Company is the only complete provider, though several ISPs are available, with the permission of STC.
* AXIS ( A division of the Saudi Telecom Company )
* Kingdom Holding Company, a Saudi investment company
Disneyland Paris is operated by French company Euro Disney S. C. A., a public company of which 39. 78 percent of its stock is held by The Walt Disney Company, 10 percent by the Saudi Prince Alwaleed and 50. 22 percent by other shareholders.
In June that same year, Saudi Arabian Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud cut a deal whereby the Walt Disney Company bought 51 % of a new US $ 1. 1 billion share issue, the rest being offered to existing shareholders at below-market rates, with the Prince buying any that were not taken up by existing shareholders ( up to a 24. 5 % holding ).
* Saudi Railway Company, a railway company in Saudi Arabia
* Saudi Arabian Bechtel Company ( Saudi Arabia )

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