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thoughts with others In 1902, ABD AL-AZIZ bin Abd al-Rahman Al
Saud captured Riyadh and set out on a 30-year campaign to unify
the Arabian Peninsula. A son of ABD AL-AZIZ rules the country
today, and the country's Basic Law stipulates that the throne
shall remain in the hands of the aging sons and grandsons of the
kingdom's founder. Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990,
Saudi Arabia accepted the Kuwaiti royal family and 400,000
refugees while allowing Western and Arab troops to deploy on its
soil for the liberation of Kuwait the following year. The
continuing presence of foreign troops on Saudi soil after
Operation Desert Storm remained a source of tension between the
royal family and the public until the US military's near-
complete withdrawal to neighboring Qatar in 2003. The first
major terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia in several years, which
occurred in May and November 2003, prompted renewed efforts on
the part of the Saudi government to c