Oil and militant Islam: strains on U.S.-Saudi relations.

From: World Affairs | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Bahgat, Gawdat | Copyright information

For more than six decades, the United States, the world's largest oil consumer and importer, and Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer and exporter, have enjoyed close and friendly relations. Indeed, after his meeting with King Saud Ibn Abd al-Aziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia, in 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt described the defense of the kingdom as a vital U.S. national interest. Since then the relations between the two countries have been built on long-standing t...

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