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Obama visits Saudi king on eve of speech
Thursday, June 4, 2009
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Opening a mission to write a new chapter on Islam and the West, President Obama consulted Wednesday with the Saudi king "in the place where Islam began," a prelude to a high-stakes speech in Egypt meant to ease long-held Muslim grievances against the United States.
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