Aha.
This just came in over the Reuters wire:
U.S. officials say withdrawing virtually all military personnel from Saudi Arabia./REUTERS</p> Lots of people were saying before the war that the greater strategic reason for this was to reduce western dependence on Saudi Arabia, both for oil and as a military staging area in the Middle East. Looks like this was accurate.
Update: Reuters now has more than a flash.
/2003/04/29/aha/