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Diplomats who have spent time recently with Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi intelligence chief running the kingdom's Syria operation, say he seems most preoccupied not with Mr. Assad's forces, but with the number of foreign jihadists in Syria, which he estimates at 3,000 to 5,000, including about 800 Saudis whose identities his government closely tracks.

By comparison, the current terrorism is mainly a callous threat against expatriates rather than the kingdom's oil operations.

If nothing else, such widespread myopia explains regional conflicts ranging from the ongoing civil war in Syria to the sectarian violence in Iraq and the kingdom's military operations in Yemen.

While Riyadh insisted that King Salman was remaining at home to monitor the kingdom's ongoing military operations in Yemen, his last-minute no-show was widely interpreted as a snub to Mr Obama to convey dissatisfaction with his perceived inattention to the region.

Meanwhile, Alfred (871 899) greatly extended the Wessex kingdom, as shown by his operation of mints: Canterbury (still much the largest), Gloucester, Exeter, Winchester, London, and possibly Oxford.

Some of the world's biggest energy and manufacturing firms, from Exxon Mobil to Unilever, have operations in the kingdom too.

Crown Prince Abdullah, who is 77, has run the day-to-day operations of the kingdom since King Fahd, his older half-brother, was incapacitated by a stroke in the mid-1990's.

526) and set up a kingdom marked by its co-operation between the Italians and the Ostrogoths, at least until the last years of Theodoric's reign.

It took Al Qaeda attacks inside the kingdom in 2003-4 and jihadist operations since as well as growing international suggestions of an ideological affinity between Saudi Arabia's Sunni Muslim ultra-conservatism and jihadism for the kingdom to view Islamic militants on par with Iran, which Saudis see as an existential threat.

Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV reported that the kingdom was contributing 100 warplanes to operation "Storm of Resolve" and more than 85 were provided by the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco and Sudan.

UNICEF thanks Bahrain for Lebanon donation BEIRUT, 24 August 2006 – UNICEF said today that it had received an unprecedented donation from the Kingdom of Bahrain for its relief operation in Lebanon.