l argument from Defen- dants who filed motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, including Prince Sultan, HRH Prince Mohamed Al-Faisal Al-Saud ("Prince Mohamed"),' the estate of Mohammad Abdullah Aljomaih,s Sheikh Hamad Al-Husani,1 NCB, Abdulrahman bin Mahfouz,1 the Saudi Binladin Group,

her and son for more than forty years in Syria. The most continuous line of authority in the region of course is in Saudi Arabia, where the clan of Al-Saud has been preeminent for over a hundred years, testing the elasticity of Ibn 1(1-m1dt:in's theory and buying the patience of the people with social