Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 25

21-June-2004

Arab Press Review

Gulf Security Lapses

(MEES Translation)

The following is the text of an article entitled Al-Khobar Atrocity Reveals A Security Breach that was written by the Gulf Affairs Editor of the Kuwaiti weekly al-Talia (2 June).

Politicians and the public are still in a state of shock following the crisis created by a group of terrorists who took a number of hostages in a building in al-Khobar in Saudi Arabias Eastern Province,...