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New Saudi King Salman appointed Sabic CEO Mohamed al-Mady as the president of the country’s military industries corporation, a royal decree published on the state news agency SPA said on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia condemned on Sunday the “heinous, terrorist and criminal” incidents when a shootout took place during a panel discussion about Islam and free speech in the Danish capital Copenhagen, and the earlier murder of three Muslim Americans in North Carolina.
Saudi King Salman on Saturday appointed seven new members to the current session of the Shoura Council, according to a Royal Decree carried by the Saudi Press Agency. The new members are: Dr. Khalid Al-Sabti, Dr. Muhammad Al-Hiaza, Walid Al-Khuraiji, Mohammed Al-Sager, Dr. Saad Al-Huraiqi, Dr. Nasser Al-Daoud and Abbas Muhammad Hadi.
The Nitaqat nationalization program was successful in bringing down the Kingdom’s unemployment rate to 11.7 percent — 5.9 percent among men and 32.5 percent among women, said the Central Department of Statistics and Information (CDSI).
“Hostage rescues are the hardest thing we do,” the senior Pentagon official said. “It’s twice as hard as capturing a prisoner” in a hostile environment overseas, as Special Operations forces have done successfully on a number of occasions during the Obama administration.
The Obama administration and its strongest opponents in Congress may not have all that much in common, but one thing they do share is the constant misuse of the word “strategy.” Strategy does not consist of stating a broad policy goal and empty rhetoric. It consist of stating an actual plan with clearly defined goals, specific means to achieve, milestones for action, estimates of the necessary resources and their availability, estimates of cost-benefits and risks, and metrics to measure success. A sound bite that fits in Twitter or a fortunate cookie is not a strategy.
Tuesday’s shooting in Chapel Hill, which killed Mohammad, 21, her husband Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, and her sister Razan, 19, changed all that. As soon as the victims’ names were reported, speculation swirled that the three had been slain because of their religion. Chapel Hill police said the shooting was motivated by a clash about parking, an explanation many disputed. The murders sparked a national debate about hate crimes and the treatment of Muslims in the United States.
Despite the intensifying fighting between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists before the cease-fire agreement Thursday, Americans place the conflict low on the list of critical threats to U.S. interests in the next decade. Islamic extremists, commonly known as the Islamic State or ISIS, along with international terrorism in general, loom much larger in Americans' minds as a critical threat.
Saudi Arabia has suspended operations at its embassy in Yemen and evacuated its staff due to the deteriorating situation in the capital Sanaa, controlled by a Shiite militia, the foreign ministry said Friday.
After a weeks-long delay while he recovered from back surgery, Carter's nomination sailed through the upper chamber with a final tally of 93-5. He testified for around five hours on Feb. 4 before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) submitted additional answers to the panel on Monday, and it voted unanimously Tuesday to send his nomination to the floor.
