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Wednesday 30 August 2006 (05 Sha`ban 1427)

Saudia Eyeing Several New Destinations Worldwide
Raid Qusti, Arab News

 
JEDDAH, 30 August 2006 — Saudi Arabian Airlines announced yesterday that it would not employ Saudi women in the future as flight attendants, crewmembers, or as ground support staff. Asharq Al-Awsat...  Full Story 
 
 
Minister Stops Sale of Endowment Land
Hasan Hatrash, Arab News
JEDDAH, 30 August 2006 — Justice Minister Abdullah Al-Asheikh, heading a specially formed committee, has ordered notaries in Riyadh and Makkah to stop issuing land ownership deeds regarding land that...  Full Story 
 
 
The Rights of Women in the Grand Mosque
Hatoon Al-Fassi
Last Friday a number of Saudi newspapers carried a report concerning possible new prayer arrangements for women at the Grand Mosque in Makkah. The new arrangements are based on proposals made by a...  Full Story 
 
 
The Day After: A Reading Into the Post-Lebanon War
Ramzy Baroud, Aljazeera.net English.
If it is true that the 33-day war on Lebanon was the culmination of regional developments and that it can hardly be fathomed separate from the brutal Israeli war on Gaza or the faltering American imperial...  Full Story 
Three Palestinians Killed in Israeli Missile Attacks
Hisham Abu Taha, Arab News
GAZA CITY, 30 August 2006 — Three members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, were killed early yesterday in Israeli missile attacks in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Ramallah,...  Full Story 
 
 
Finally, Bush Admits Something We Already Know
Angelo Young, Arab News
President George Bush made a confession at last week’s press conference with the Beltway journalists. He admitted clearly that Iraq had “nothing” to do with the Sept. 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade...  Full Story 
 
 
China: The Revolutionary Myth
Gwynne Dyer, Arab News
Arriving in Beijing on Aug. 23 for his third China visit in five years, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez praised the country’s communist leaders to the skies for having rescued China from a “practically...  Full Story 
 
 
Editorial: Mission of Compromise
30 August 2006
United Nations’ Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday saw for himself the terrible destruction in southern Lebanon which, thanks to US obstruction, he had tried and failed for a month to halt with...  Full Story 

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