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Transcript: Analysis: US troop withdrawl from Saudi Arabia
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- NPR Talk of the Nation
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- April 30, 2003
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NEAL CONAN
NPR Talk of the Nation
04-30-2003
Analysis: US troop withdrawl from Saudi Arabia
Host: NEAL CONAN
Time: 2:00-3:00 PM
NEAL CONAN, host:
Now we're going to move on to the announcement yesterday that most US troops will be leaving Saudi Arabia by the end of this summer. The United States has maintained a strong military presence in Saudi Arabia since the first Gulf War, but the stationing of US troops so close to Islam's holiest cities was a constant source of Saudi public unrest. American and Saudi officials both say that without the threat from Saddam Hussein, US troops are no longer needed and that the move does not reflect any deeper shift in the relationship between the two ...
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