RIYADH – President Barack Obama began his latest bid to open a dialogue with the Muslim world yesterday by seeking the counsel of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s two holiest sites in Mecca and Medina.
‘The United States and Saudi Arabia have a long history of friendship. We have a strategic relationship,’ Obama said as he visited the monarch’s desert horse farm. The US president called Abdullah wise and gracious, adding: ‘I am confident that working together that the United States and Saudi Arabia can make progress on a whole host of issues of mutual interest.’Saudi Arabia is a stopover en route to Cairo, where Obama is set to deliver a speech that he’s been promising since last year’s election campaign. – Nampa-AP
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