Hanjour was one of about 5, 500 Saudis enrolled in the U.S. at the time.
The Saudis account for 2 million of that, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi the rest.
Furthermore, Saudis are building numerous nuclear plants, further evidence that they are looking elsewhere for energy.
The underlying obstacle to getting Saudis to work is that schools are not producing employable people.
Littell says the Saudis realized their mistake and began pumping more oil in May.
Until now, few Saudis had heard coherent arguments against this idea of Muslim victimhood.
However, successive American governments have let the Saudis off, exercising a waiver on national-security grounds.
Let's go back to that biggest-supplier, biggest-user dynamic between the Saudis and the United States.
That would allow, indeed encourage, the Saudis to develop new fields to replace lost output.
If they want, the Saudis can exert considerable influence over prices by reducing supply.
Why did the Saudis go out of their way to stand by Mr Sharif?
But the Saudis and the Qatari and the Turks are all very concerned about this.
Most Saudis are Sunni Muslims, and Sunni Islam is the only allowed religion in the country.
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So it is possible that Olmert and Livni are supporting the Saudis because they are obtuse.
The plans come as no surprise from the Saudis, given Ghawar was discovered in 1948.
Ordinary Saudis complain of unemployment and economic hardship, which they contrast with princely power and privilege.
This being so, the Saudis might argue at Osaka for a modest increase in quotas.
Saudis are thinking of buying rice farms in Thailand, the world's biggest rice exporter.
For all their gripes about U.S. foreign policy, the Saudis' only weapon of protest is oil.
The Saudis believe that the U.S. won't try to go to war without them.
The festering public anger toward the U.S. gives the Saudis little incentive to cooperate.
Yet the Saudis will not be unhappy to see Iran, a regional rival, squirm.
But, for Saudis, these are far-off horrors that have found no echo in the kingdom itself.
The days of easy money are over, and Saudis are being required to accept it.
Why are we not asking the Saudis where that money is going that we give them?
In the next two years, however, China looks set to become consistently the Saudis' key customer.
But many Saudis, along with foreigners, do worry about the effectiveness of the kingdom's police force.
But Prince Abdullah has bluntly declared that all Saudis will have to tighten their belts.
At least half the victims of this week's attacks were Muslims, seven of them Saudis.
Some Saudis have been asking whether the case amounts to trafficking or child abuse.
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