saudi arabia

Despite our feminist politicians, it hasn’t happened here: British Prime Minister’s wife Cherie Blair told the Saudi ambassador to Britain that his country has an “appalling image” in the West because they treat women not as equals, but as “some sort of other.”

Marie Woolf writes in the Independent that Blair made her remarks to Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ambassador to Britain. She said it’s important to change the “perception of Islam being backward-looking, oppressive?somehow not as good as Western Christianity.” Mrs. Blair, who is a Catholic, added, “Some of you know my own religion has not always been in the forefront of women’s rights, and indeed still isn’t, sadly.”
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In the 1980s, Saudi Arabian Prince Salman arranged to send of thousands of soldiers to fight a holy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, where they later established al-Qaeda. Now U.S. intelligence thinks Salman is sending Saudi volunteers to Iraq to wage holy war against American soldiers.
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The U.S. plans to move its troops from Saudi Arabia to Iraq, after the war there. The new U.S. national security policy will promote democracy in the Middle East and launch an offensive against terrorists, as well as their state sponsors. “The Sept. 11 events have changed the U.S. attitude not only towards Iraq but the entire region, with which the U.S. has maintained friendly relations for a long period of time,” says a study by the United Arab Emirates. “The U.S. troops are expected to transfer all their military bases from Saudi Arabia to Iraq and control all oil fields so that it no longer needs Saudi crude oil. It is evident that some of the U.S. conservatives see Saudi Arabia as a threat similar to Iraq which must be faced.”
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Los Angeles Times, Fox News – In Saudi Arabia recently, a group of baboons waited three days to take revenge on a human being, until a driver who had run over one of their group drove down the same road again. When they spotted the car, the of the baboons gave signal, and they all attacked, throwing stones until they broke his windshield. The driver was able to escape.

In India, a group of monkeys have made it clear that they don?t like smokers hanging out in front of an office building. An group of brown monkeys have started threatening the smokers, who are no longer allowed to smoke inside the building.
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