VOL. XLV

No 7

18 February 2002

Arab Columnists On 11 SeptemberAftermath

(MEES Translation)

The following article, entitledThe US Presence Has Caused The First Split Between The Saudi Ruling Family AndThe Religious Establishment, was published by the London-based al-Qudsal-Arabi on 1 February:

It seems that the nickname thekingdom of silence that used to be given to Saudi Arabia in the past becauseof the way it was so closed up and the silent way that politics were conductedthere, with a complete...