Wall Street Journal editorial writer William McGurn reports that Sarah Saga, an American woman who had taken refuge in the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia, has arrived in the United States. Unfortunately, without her kids. So why did Ms. Saga agree to give up her kids? The answer is simple: her fear that her father […]
The Wall Street Journal has another update on our coddling of the duplicitous Saudis. Newt Gingrich is right that there needs to be a revamping of the State Department -- it needs to realize that it serves U.S. interests first.
In case you had any doubts about whether Saudi Arabia had changed its ways to coincide with the image promoted by their PR machine, don't worry, some things never change. If only Sarah Saga were trying to crash a men's-only golf club. Then she and those like her might be guaranteed some sustained media coverage. […]
Ever since last week's naive summit meeting in Jordan between prime ministers Mahmoud Abbas, Ariel Sharon and President George W. Bush concluded, Arab terrorists have have been doing their best to make peace look impossible to achieve. In other words, reality has reared its ugly head. Over the past few days I've heard talking heads […]
President George W. Bush and his neoconservative handlers have been joined in their plot to justify the war against Iraq from an unlikely source -- Iran. An Iranian government official with ties to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says Tehran sides with the Americans on one big issue � Saddam Hussein's weapons. "Yes, we agree […]
The Los Angeles Times has an article on how the "Persian street" sees the upcoming war with Iraq. When newspaper headlines suggest that Washington's resolve may be wavering, anxiety sets in. "Are they changing their mind?" Goli Afshar, a 23-year-old student, asked as she alternately tightened and loosened her grip on a mug at a […]
Steven Stalinsky, the executive director of MEMRI, had an interesting article on the anti-Christian and anti-Jew indoctrinaiton/education that goes on in Saudi Arabia. In summary, what the Saudis have been saying in English doesn't jive with what they've been saying in Arabic -- nothing new. MEMRI's report has identified the main characteristics of Saudi Arabia's […]
The Washington Post is reporting that the Saudi embassy helped the wife of a terror suspect to get out of the country after she was called to testify before a grand jury on possible links to al Qaeda. Jubeir, the Saudi spokesman, bristled at suggestions yesterday that the Saudis had failed to assist law enforcement […]
There's an interesting first person article in The Times (U.K.) that is definitely worth a read. The piece is written by Ahmer Khokhar, a son of a Pakistani immigrant to Great Britain. While the piece is a good read, and I feel for what this man has had to go through, when it comes to […]
The American people aren't buying Saudi Arabia's PR offensive, with good reason. Two more Westerners -- one of them a Canadian -- have stepped forward with allegations that they were tortured by Saudi officials who wanted them to confess to bombings in Riyadh. The allegations will be aired tonight on the CBC program The Fifth […]