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Article: Despite warnings, companies not fleeing Saudi Arabia
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2004
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WASHINGTON (AP) - If the recent past is any guide, the beheading
of American Paul M. Johnson Jr. is unlikely to trigger a mass exodus
from Saudi Arabia.
Most Americans in the kingdom have not heeded repeated State
Department warnings that they get out, security consultants and
analysts said.
"We haven't seen the panicking or the departure of foreigners from
Saudi Arabia," Adel al-Jubeir, foreign affairs adviser to the
kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, said Saturday.
"This is a difficult time for Saudi Arabia. We are going through a
difficult period. We are fighting people who are willful murderers,"
he said. "We are doing our best to maintain security and stability
and safety ...