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NARRATOR 1: After capturing most of the Arabian Peninsula 00:01:03.320 - 00:01:06.120
with the help of the Wahhabi Islamic warriors, 00:01:06.160 - 00:01:08.640
Ibn Saud establishes the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 00:01:09.160 - 00:01:13.240
NARRATOR 2: The Wahhabis were fiercely anti-Western. 00:01:13.480 - 00:01:15.800
They want to go back in time 00:01:15.840 - 00:01:17.240
to a pure Islam that wasn't threatened by the West. 00:01:17.320 - 00:01:20.600
SAUDI RULER: It was by chance that we discovered oil. 00:01:20.680 - 00:01:23.040
We were looking for water. 00:01:23.080 - 00:01:25.160
NARRATOR 3: Despite criticism of foreign presence in the Kingdom, 00:01:25.240 - 00:01:27.840
the King allows commercial oil production to begin. 00:01:27.920 - 00:01:30.680
FEMALE NARRATOR 1: The result is the first union 00:01:30.920 - 00:01:33.200
between Saudi Arabia and the United States. 00:01:33.280 - 00:01:36.160
NARRATOR 4: To accommodate the workforce 00:01:36.960 - 00:01:38.160
the first Western housing compounds are created. 00:01:38.240 - 00:01:40.880
NEWSCASTER 1: The strict Islamic laws enforced outside of these walls 00:01:40.960 - 00:01:43.880
do not apply inside. 00:01:43.920 - 00:01:45.360
NEWSCASTER 2: West and East came together in Egypt 00:01:45.920 - 00:01:47.600
when President Roosevelt and Ibn Saud, King of Arabia... 00:01:47.680 - 00:01:50.480
JAMES BAKER: They want America present there in the kingdom 00:01:50.520 - 00:01:54.320
because we are their security. 00:01:54.400 - 00:01:56.760