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Tuesday 5 September 2006 (11 Sha`ban 1427)

Sentence of Saudi Student Unfair, Says Prince Ahmad
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News

 
JEDDAH, 5 September 2006 — Deputy Interior Minister Prince Ahmad stated yesterday that the 27-year prison sentence given by a Colorado court to Saudi student Homaidan Al-Turki was too much and hoped...  Full Story 
 
 
Human Rights Body Calls for Review of Sponsorship System
Arab News
MAKKAH, 5 September 2006 — In a surprise visit to detention cells at the Expatriate Monitoring Department in Makkah, the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) freed a Saudi man who had been arrested...  Full Story 
 
 
Saudi Aid to Lebanon Channeled Through WFP
Javid Hassan, Arab News
RIYADH , 5 September 2006 — The Saudi Committee for the Relief of the Lebanese People and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Riyadh yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to provide...  Full Story 
 
 
Criticism of Israel Is not 'anti-Semitism'
Linda Heard, sierra12th@yahoo.co.uk
Results of a ten-month inquiry into anti-Semitism in Britain will be delivered by three members of Parliament to Downing Street on Thursday. And according to the Guardian, the report is likely to criticize...  Full Story 
‘Kingdom Key to Conflict Resolution’
Siraj Wahab & Saeed Al-Abyad, Arab News

 
JEDDAH, 5 September 2006 — UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday met Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and sought Saudi support for the implementation of UN Resolution 1701 that led...  Full Story 
 
 
Briton Dies as Gunman Targets Tourists
Abdul Jalil Mustafa, Arab News

 
AMMAN, 5 September 2006 — A Briton was killed and five other Westerners were wounded yesterday when a gunman opened fire on a group of tourists at Hashemiyah Square in downtown Amman, the Interior...  Full Story 
 
 
Terrorism Prosecutions Drop
Barbara Ferguson, Arab News
WASHINGTON, 5 September 2006 — Nearly three-quarters of terrorism suspects seized by the United States in the five years following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks have not even made it to trial because...  Full Story 
 
 
The Lobby and the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon: Their Facts and Ours
James Petras, jpetras@binghamton.edu
All the national, state and local Jewish organizations in the US have launched a $300 million fund-raising and propaganda campaign in support of the 21 Jewish civilians and 116 soldiers killed during...  Full Story 

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