Rumsfeld’s visit to Iraq comes a day after he met with Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz and then announced the U.S. will remove almost all of its forces from Saudi Arabia by summer. Five hundred troops involved in a training program will remain. Saudi Arabia has the largest oil fields in the world. Thousands of U.S. troops have occupied bases in the country since the Gulf War. Saudi Arabia is home to Islam’s holiest shrines and Mecca and Medina, and the U.S. troop presence has fueled radical Islam. Osama bin Laden has for years demanded U.S. troops get out of Saudi Arabia. He himself is a Saudi, as were 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers.