Saudi Arabia Convicts 15 Men, Women For Mingling At Party
ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI | 06/22/10 12:31 PM | AP
RIYADH — Judicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party and sentenced them to flogging and prison terms.
The men, who are between 30 and 40 years old, and three […]
New Osama Bin Laden PICTURES: FBI’s Digitally-Enhanced Images Of How He May Look
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TodayHuffington Post/AP First Posted: 01-15-10 11:32 AM | Updated: 01-15-10 12:23 PM
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Osama Bin Laden may look drastically different today than he did just a few years ago, and the FBI has released new pictures showing what he may look like today.The digitally-enhanced images […]
Updated 10:15 p.m. EDT, Sun May 10, 2009
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By Mohammed Jamjoom
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CNN(CNN) — Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic violence, Saudi media reported Sunday.
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It is OK to slap Saudi women who spend too much, a judge has told an audience.It is OK […]
WE CAN WORK IT OUT (Lennon-McCartney)
Try to see it my way,
Do I have to keep on talking till I can’t go on?
While you see it your way,
Run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone.
We can work it out,
We can work it out.
Think of what you’re saying.
You can get it wrong and […]
Hamdan To Be Sent To Yemen
Bin Laden Driver Spent 7 Years at Guantanamo
By Josh White and William Branigin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, November 25, 2008; Page A01
The U.S. military has decided to transfer Osama bin Laden’s former driver from custody at Guantanamo Bay to his home in Yemen, ending the seven-year saga of a man the […]
NOVEMBER 17, 2008, 1:07 P.M. ET
Pirates Capture Saudi Supertanker
By CHIP CUMMINS
DUBAI — The U.S. Navy said Monday that pirates commandeered a Saudi-owned supertanker hundreds of miles off the Kenyan coast, an attack officials said was unprecedented for its distance from shore and the size of its target.
The attack appears also to be the first significant […]
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Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:38pm EST
By Matt SpetalnickRIYADH, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah hosts George W. Bush at his desert playground on Tuesday when the U.S. president will get a taste of how the royals live in the world’s richest oil-producing monarchy.
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Images: (W) AP Photo via q-bo.com via current.com; (Lawrence of Arabia) […]
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Iraq’s foreign militants ‘come from US allies’
Peter Walker
Thursday November 22, 2007
Guardian Unlimited
Around 60% of all foreign militants who entered Iraq to fight over the past year came from Saudi Arabia and Libya, according to files seized by American forces at a desert camp.
The files listed the nationalities and biographical details of more than 700 […]
BAE accused of secretly paying £1bn to Saudi prince
· Money for ‘marketing services’ on arms deal
· £30m payments a quarter
· Sanctioned by MoD
David Leigh and Rob Evans
Thursday June 7, 2007
Guardian
The arms company BAE secretly paid Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia more than £1bn in connection with Britain’s biggest ever weapons contract, it is alleged today.
A […]
the Cairo Papyrus Pushers still have the league’s best pitching.
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April 29, 2007
A Saudi Prince Tied to Bush Is Sounding Off-Key
By HELENE COOPER and JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON, April 28 — No foreign diplomat has been closer or had more access to President Bush, his family, and his administration than the magnetic and fabulously wealthy Prince Bandar […]