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Obama in Riyadh amid Increasing US-Saudi Tensions
President Obama is in Saudi Arabia today at a tense moment in USSaudi relations. The long-standing alliance is based on oil and security concerns, but now is being frayed by diverging goals in Middle East conflicts, by Obama's recent reference to the Saudis as "free riders" and renewed calls from Congress to allow Americans sue them for 9/11.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 10m ListenPresident Obama is in Saudi Arabia today at a tense moment in USSaudi relations. The long-standing alliance is based on oil and security concerns, but now is being frayed by diverging goals in Middle East conflicts, by Obama's recent reference to the Saudis as "free riders" and renewed calls from Congress to allow Americans sue them for 9/11.
President Barack Obama is greeted by officials upon his arrival at King Khalid
International Airport for a summit meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 20, 2016.
Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
We hear more about the growing tensions from Ben Hubbard, Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, and Fred Wehrey, senior associate in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Barbara Bogaev
radio journalist
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Jenny Hamel
KCRW
Katie Cooper
Producer, 'One year Later'
Ben Hubbard
New York Times
Frederic Wehrey
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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