The sizable number slated to arrive from Al Waleed alone raises questions about the priorities involved.
That got me thinking: exactly how should most people (read, not Waleed) invest in emerging markets beyond BRIC?
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But of all the humanitarian work to be done in the world, why import almost the entire population of Al Waleed?
The Jeddah Economic Company, which appointed the firms to the project, said it was the vision of Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.
Saudi Arabia's Prince Waleed bin Talal, the man in question, largely owes his place on the world's rich-lists to that decision.
"No one wanted to take his case, " said Waleed Abualkhair, Badawi's attorney.
Waleed El-Amir, the investment banking head for Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, left in May to join Italian bank UniCredit .
They added that the convoy had been headed from Rabia to the al-Waleed border crossing in Iraq's Anbar province when it was attacked.
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Hamas has said a group called Khalid Ibn Al-waleed claimed responsibility for other recent launches at Israel, and that it has no connection to Hamas.
The arraignment hearing - in which the defendants are read the charges against them - was first delayed when Waleed bin Attash arrived in court restrained in his chair.
On 4 March, the soldiers were being escorted to the al-Waleed border crossing further south in Anbar province when they were ambushed near the town of Akashat, Iraqi officials said.
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Two main crossing points, Albo Kamal and Al-Waleed, and seven additional security posts were in the hands of the rebels, a senior Iraqi Army official in Anbar province told CNN.
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Another model of diplomatic behavior: Prince Al-Waleed, the Saudi multibillionaire with the biggest stake in Citigroup , never insisted on a board seat and was a benign investor remaining in the background.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with her Syrian counterpart Waleed Muallem on November 3 and invited Syria to demand the Golan Heights from Israel at her peace conference at Annapolis later this month.
With three medium-sized jets, two donated by the Netherlands and one by Saudi Arabia's Prince Waleed bin Talal, the airline has been flying for two years from El Arish, in Egypt, to Jeddah and Amman.
According to U.S. officials at the departments of State and Homeland Security, interviewed recently by phone, some 1, 000 Palestinians at Al Waleed have already been interviewed for admission to the U.S. They are expected to arrive by early next year.
Another model of diplomatic behavior: Prince Al-Waleed, the Saudi multibillionaire with the biggest stake in Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), never insisted on a board seat and was a benign investor remaining in the background.
Prince Waleed bin Talal , a Saudi prince whose company interests encircle Euro Disney, Michael Jackson, Saks Fifth Avenue, the George V hotel in Paris and Canary Wharf in the Docklands of London, has built up a 5% stake in Apple Computer in recent weeks.
For example, the number of Palestinians now expected to move to the U.S. this coming year from Al Waleed in Iraq is more than 10 times the total of North Korean refugees resettled in the U.S. over the past five years--or, for that matter, the past 20.
In addition to the battles Saudi women have been waging on the ground and behind the scenes for their rights, or lack there of, they have had a champion in Princess Ameera Al-Taweel, the wife of Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, one of the more progressive of the thousands of Princes of the Saud family, and one of richest men in the world.
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With the cooperation of the U.S. State Department, a multilateral group--one involving assorted U.N. agencies and NGOs--has been racing to deliver these Palestinians for resettlement in the U.S. According to a UNHCR report released last month, "In 2009 the USA Government moved to streamline case processing for Palestinian refugees, " sending U.S. officials to interview them at Al Waleed instead of requiring them to come to Baghdad.
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