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# About me
Saudi ArabiaMuna Kumar
1871 - The Ottomans take control of the province of Hasa.
1891 - The Al Saud family are exiled to Kuwait by the Rashidi family.
1960 - Saudi Arabia is a founding member of Opec (Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries).
1964 November - King Saud is deposed by his brother, the Crown Prince, Faysal Bin-Abd-al-Aziz Al Saud.
1970 - The OIC (Organisation of the Islamic Conference) is founded in Jeddah.
1972 - Saudi Arabia gains control of a proportion (20%) of Aramco, lessening US control over Saudi oil.
1973 - Saudi Arabia leads an oil boycott against the Western countries that supported Israel in the October War against Egypt and Syria. Oil prices quadruple.
1979 - Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic relations with Egypt after it makes peace with Israel.
1980 - Saudi Arabia takes full control of Aramco from the US.
1981 May - Saudi Arabia is a founder member of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council).
1987 - Saudi Arabia resumes diplomatic relations with Egypt, severed since 1979.
1990 - Saudi Arabia condemns Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and asks the US to intervene; it allows foreign troops, the Kuwaiti government and many of its citizens to stay in Saudi Arabia but expels citizens of Yemen and Jordan because of their governments' support of Iraq.
1991 - Saudi Arabia is involved in both air attacks on Iraq and in the land force that went on to liberate Kuwait.
1994 - Islamic dissident Osama Bin Laden is stripped of his Saudi nationality.
1999 October - Twenty Saudi women attend a session of the Consultative Council for the first time.
2001 March - Several British workers are arrested in Riyadh after a series of blasts in which a British and an American national are killed.
2001 11 September - 15 of the 19 hijackers involved in attacks on New York and Washington are Saudi nationals.
2008 December - Saudi Arabia and Qatar agree final delineation of border.
2009 June - US President Barack Obama arrived in Saudi Arabia at the start of a Middle East tour aimed at increasing US engagement with the Islamic world. Had talks with King Abdullah.
2011 March - Public protests banned, after small demonstrations in mainly Shia areas of the east. King Abdullah warns that threats to the nation's security and stability will not be tolerated.
Small protests - mainly calling for the release of political prisoners - continue to be held in Riyadh and elsewhere in defiance of the ban.
(~Information from: BBC News ;v;~)
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Muna has a twin brother, anemd Aladdin who is her guardian.
STILL A WIP
# Comments
Comments: 19
R-O-M-A-N-O [2011-11-05 20:05:06 +0000 UTC]
Ciao.
(( Hello~ just curious, are you actually Muslim? was looking at your signature and was wondering; o v o ))
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R-O-M-A-N-O [2011-11-05 20:04:52 +0000 UTC]
Ciao.
(( Hello~ just curious, are you actually Muslim? was looking at your signature and was wondering; I am too o v o ))
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Obviously-Arabia In reply to AskMamaKorea [2011-10-16 20:18:24 +0000 UTC]
Ah, your welcome.
((The answer made my day. XD))
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Obviously-Arabia In reply to Burtonized [2011-10-08 14:27:29 +0000 UTC]
...repenting.
Leave Kuwait alone.
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Obviously-Arabia In reply to Not-Constantinople [2011-07-17 01:51:51 +0000 UTC]
(Can I have my comment virginity back? O^O)
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Not-Constantinople In reply to Obviously-Arabia [2011-07-17 01:55:39 +0000 UTC]
[[HAHAHAHAHA. No BD ]]
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Obviously-Arabia In reply to Not-Constantinople [2011-07-17 01:58:21 +0000 UTC]
(( Why not? OnO ))
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Not-Constantinople In reply to Obviously-Arabia [2011-07-17 03:01:18 +0000 UTC]
[[ Because I said so~ 8D ]]
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Obviously-Arabia In reply to Not-Constantinople [2011-07-16 02:22:50 +0000 UTC]
WAIT. WHAT. OH NOOOOOSSS! D:
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