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"it has released to Egypt the first $1 billion of a promised aid package"

"1990 invasion of the little oil sheikdom of Kuwait by Iraq's Saddam Hussein"

"Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist forces"

"On July 22, 1952, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that toppled the British-installed King Farouk"

"Nasser, in retaliation, seized the Suez Canal"

"In 1969, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi overthrew the oil-rich King Idris"

"Aaron David Miller, a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars"

"The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal"

"the king of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa"

"meeting in Riyadh of the loosely allied, six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council"

"Emile Hokayem, a Middle East analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies"

"Thousands of Saudi troops rolled into Bahrain last year to help Bahrain's monarch put down a popular uprising"

"Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, our man in charge in Iraq, disbanded the Army"

"Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, our man in charge in Iraq, disbanded the Army"

"Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Ambassador L. Paul Bremer... fired Baath Party members down to teachers"

"Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Ambassador L. Paul Bremer... fired Baath Party members down to teachers"

"My infamous speech at the U.N. in 2003 about Iraqi WMD programs... I highlighted the vans in my speech, having been assured that the information about"

"the Russians and Chinese appear callous for supporting Assad"

"the Russians and Chinese appear callous for supporting Assad"

"highlights the Saudi monarchy's preoccupation with its regional rival, Iran"

"Nasser turned to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who was happy to comply... ship arms to Nasser"

"President Bashar al-Assad's regime"

"Jabhat al-Nusra is led by someone using the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Golani"

"Ahmad Mustafa... says that he and others in his Republican Guard unit"

"Andrew Tabler, a fellow at the Washington Institute"

"Bilal Y. Saab, a fellow at the Monterey Institute of International Studies"

"Emile Hokayem, a Mideast-based fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies"

"Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has given his explicit support for the Syrian uprising"

"its support for Sunni opposition groups in Syria"

"the president felt he had to support Secretary Rumsfeld and Ambassador Bremer"

"the president felt he had to support Secretary Rumsfeld and Ambassador Bremer"

"help Egypt land a larger loan from the International Monetary Fund"

"they helped keep the strongmen in power with generous amounts of aid and weaponry"

"claimed responsibility for the blasts in a boilerplate al-Qaeda-like video message"

"Nasser's successor, Anwar Sadat"

"one of my best friends, then—major general Butch Saint"

"one of the soldiers stationed at the prison reported the abuses to his superiors"

"Gen. Richard Myers... told the president in early January 2004 that incidents at Abu Ghraib were being looked into"

"American soldiers and interrogators in charge of Iraq prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad subjected prisoners to horrendous abuse"

"Jonathan Broder is a senior editor at Congressional Quarterly"

"Ho Kwon Ping is chairman of Singapore Management University"

"Ho Kwon Ping is... executive chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings"

"On the evening of Aug. 5, 2002, President Bush and I met in his residence at the White House to discuss the pros and cons of the Iraq crisis"

"After two years of U.S.-mediated negotiations, the two countries signed a peace treaty that took Egypt out of the Arab conflict with Israel"

"Saudi Arabia, already aghast at the failure of the United States to support Egypt's Mubarak, a faithful U.S. ally for nearly thirty years"

"wrote Kenneth Pollack, a Middle East specialist at the Brookings Institution"

"Riyadh sent armored units across the causeway that links Bahrain to the Saudi mainland to help crush the Shia rebellion"

"The United States... pleaded with Bahrain's rulers to make political reforms"