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Friend and fellow Saudi blogger petitions for al-Farhan's release

A Saudi blogger arrested in December could be freed soon, a spokesman for the kingdom's Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

Preparing to cover The Hajj

Arriving in the evening of December 20 in this hot, desert kingdom, laden with a train of boxes bearing some 280 kg of camera equipment, and some vague notions of a "schedule" to be adhered to, your ideals are dispelled as soon as you set foot in the arrivals lounge at King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Gunmen kill two Saudi guards in shootout near prison

A gun battle broke out Thursday near a prison in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, and two security guards were killed, the Saudi government said.

Saudis arrest 139 'sleeper cell' suspects

Saudi security officials said Saturday they foiled a planned terrorist suicide attack and arrested 139 suspected Islamist militants who were in "sleeper cells" believed to be affiliated with al Qaeda.

Officials, friends can't confirm Bin Laden death report

A report that Osama bin Laden is dead has set off a flurry of denials from U.S., French and Pakistani officials, who say the newspaper report citing French intelligence cannot be independently confirmed.

Does bin Laden still matter?

I'm the voice of Osama bin Laden.

Officials: Fire made ferry sink

Egypt's transport minister has said a blaze aboard an Egyptian ferry set off a sequence of events that led it to sink Friday in the Red Sea, causing what officials fear may be around 1,000 deaths.

1,000 ferry passengers missing in Red Sea

Rescuers who plucked more than 340 people from the chilly Red Sea were continuing to search the water Saturday for hundreds of other people feared dead after an Egyptian ferry sank with about 1,400 people on board.

Getting to know Osama bin Laden

The world's most-wanted man is the subject of a new biography, and if you are at all interested in his al Qaeda organization and why it exists, you need to read it.

Bin Laden: Alive or dead -- and how would we know?

We've gone almost a year without hearing from Osama bin Laden.

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