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Thursday 11 November 2004 (28 Ramadan 1425)

Editorial: Jeddah Airport

Sometimbe back, a Jeddah businessman wrote an article in a local Arabic daily comparing Jeddah’s King Abdul Aziz International Airport with Dubai’s international terminal. “A visitor to Dubai,” he... Full Story


About Our Own Cowboys

In one week the local papers carried three news items about people using guns in disputes. In one of the stories, a group of armed men surrounded a mosque demanding to get hold of one of the worshippers... Full Story


Strange Way of Managing the Affairs of a State

Ancient Egyptians made a high art out of mummification. They, however, dealt strictly with the dead, clinically or otherwise. We have inherited some of that art and now are elevating it to the science... Full Story




US Generals May Deliver Fallujah to Bush and Blair, but Not Fallujahns

LONDON, 11 November 2004 — George Bush and Tony Blair have apparently concluded that they can crush the Iraqi people’s will to resist occupation and legitimize a puppet regime next January by occupying... Full Story


Arafat and His Three Revolutions

Wherever he may be buried when he passes away, the day will come when his remains will be reinterred by a free Palestinian government in the holy shrines in Jerusalem. Yasser Arafat is one of... Full Story


This Will Not Be America’s Century — but China’s

“Your speech,” said the friendly official out of earshot of anyone else “is not very helpful!” Gloomily, I contemplated similar entreaties from British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Labour NEC meetings,... Full Story