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  • 9/11 Documents
    Saudi government did not support Al-Qaeda: CIA report

    The once-secret documents, released on Friday, said an investigation carried out by the CIA’s inspector general in 2005 on the agency’s performance prior to and after the 9/11 attacks “encountered no evidence that the Saudi government knowingly and willingly supported Al-Qaeda terrorists.”

  • 9/11 Lawsuits
    Can Saudi government evade suit by 9/11 families?

    In dueling briefs filed Friday, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the families of people killed in the attacks of September 11, 2001 made their last written arguments to U.S. District Judge George Daniels of Manhattan, who will decide later this year whether the families can bring claims against Saudi Arabia for allegedly helping al Qaeda operatives carry out the 9/11 attacks.

  • Saudi Workforce
    Saudis continue to opt for government jobs: Construction sector shows improvement

    But the construction industry – the most labour intensive part of the private sector – has seen even better results under the Nitaqat system, with a 34% jump in the number of Saudis employed. Saudi workers now represent 10.3% of the construction workforce which is still some way off the 12% the government is targeting, and considerably short of the more ambitious targets set under phase three of the programme, due to be implemented in April 2015.

  • Saudi Arabia and 9/11
    Opinion: Was the Saudi Government Complicit in the 9/11 Attacks?

    Moussaoui’s anecdotes about Saudi perfidy are not plausible. Anyone who has read his testimony can see that he is not mentally well, and in any case one of Al Qaeda’s aims was to drive a wedge between the United States and Saudi Arabia so as more easily to overthrow the House of Saud. Most of the Al Qaeda governing board consisted of expatriate Egyptians, part of the al-Zawahiri Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which had merged with Al Qaeda. Yet bin Laden chose Saudi youth as the muscle for the 9/11 operation rather than the numerous Egyptians, Yemenis and other Arab nationalities. In so doing, he was trying to alienate Washington from Riyadh.

  • Jobs for Saudis
    Fakeih: The Government plans to create 300,000 jobs for Saudis

    Economy and Planning, Finance and Labor Ministries would launch 36 initiatives as part of the scheme.

  • Oil Slump
    Saudi Economists Advise Government to Base Budget on $45 Oil Price

    Saudi economists have advised the government to peg the oil price between $45 and $50 while preparing the national budget for 2015.

  • Information Technology
    Government IT spending fuels Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s innovation economy

    Overall IT spending in the Kingdom - the Middle East's largest IT market - is set grow by 23 percent from US$ 11.5 billion in 2014 to US$ 14.2 billion in 2017 according to IDC's report 'Saudi Arabia Vertical Markets 2013-2017 IT Spending Forecast'. Government will be the fastest-growing vertical in this period, with a compound annual growth rate of 12.9 percent, according to IDC. Guiding investment is the Kingdom's Ninth Development Plan, which projects a 27 percent increase in government spending from SAR 150 billion in 2009 to SAR 191 billion in 2014.