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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Touching news: "A Saudi Arabian prince got an official US Air Force welcome at a southern Nevada base where the Saudi Air Force it taking part in a training exercise for the first time in 25 years. Prince Khalid bin Sultan bin Abd al-Aziz al Saud is his country's assistant minister of defense and aviation for military affairs. He says taking part in Red Flag exercises at Nellis Air Force Base shows the solid friendship between the United States and Saudi Arabia." (In an interview on AlArabiyya yesterday, this Prince Khalid (who seems to be adding new hair with every interview) said that Saudi Air Force is the strongest in the entire Middle East, and that it is second to the US air force worldwide. He then added that he knows who killed John F. Kennedy.)