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“Saudi Arabia did not just pledge a combined US$12 billion in financial assistance, but it has also promised to make up for any Western aid that may be withheld as a result of the coup and the ongoing crackdown in which about 1,000 protesters are believed to have been killed to date.  Perhaps even more worrisome to some experts in Washington has been the exceptionally tough language directed against Washington’s own condemnation of the coup by top Saudi officials, including King Abdullah, who declared last week that ‘[t]he kingdom stands … against all those who try to interfere with its domestic affairs’ and charged that criticism of the army crackdown amounted to helping the ‘terrorists’.”

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/World/WOR-01-230813.html