American investigators who arrived on Thursday night were preparing for meetings with their Saudi counterparts to pursue leads on the attacks.

American commanders said relations with their Saudi military counterparts had not suffered seriously from the political tensions in American-Saudi relations.

Also the neck tends to be more open than in its Saudi counterpart and is often embroidered as is the breast pocket.

Within USMTM there are six divisions, each who interfaces with a Saudi counterpart:

But the details of the conversations between U.S. diplomats and their Saudi counterparts should stay confidential, shouldn't they?

But officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and their Saudi counterparts say they have not yet reached even a preliminary conclusion about whether such assertions are valid.

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, federal investigators have sent hundreds of written requests for specific information to their Saudi counterparts.

You go to your Saudi counterpart and ask for eight things.

Colonel Boyle walks the perimeter at Dhahran with his Saudi counterpart and asks to expand it to 400 feet; Saudi says not now.

For the second time, Colonel Boyle asks his Saudi counterpart for permission to expand the Dhahran perimeter to 400 feet; request is rejected.