http://arabia.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for arabia en Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:11:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2037128 unknown@Netscape.com The story of possible corruption between BAE and the Saudi government, and how the British government ignored it, is shocking. But we should not regard this episode as an aberration. Instead, it should force us to question the way foreign policy is thought about and practised in government today. Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:11:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2037128britainsaudiarabiaBAEBlairNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1558571 unknown@Netscape.com Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most conservative societies, has seen an increase in attacks by members of the public against its religious police, a newspaper has reported. Al-Watan daily on Saturday published figures that revealed 21 incidents of violence against some of the country's 5,000-member moral police force by citizens in 2006. Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:25:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1558571saudiarabiamoralpoliceforceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1548310 unknown@Netscape.com Somehow, though, I can't shake the idea that the Israel lobby, no matter how powerful, isn't all it is cracked up to be, particularly where it concerns the Bush administrations past and present. Indeed, when I think of pernicious foreign lobbies with disproportionate sway over American politics, I can't see past Saudi Arabia and its royal house, le Sat, 21 Apr 2007 13:33:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1548310bushkingabdullahmiddleeastpolicysaudiarabiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1074312 unknown@Netscape.com British Prime Minister Tony Blair struck a secret deal with the king of Saudi Arabia, assuring him there would be no criminal charges against anyone implicated in bribery in Britain's biggest arms deal. Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:20:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1074312TonyBlairbritainSaudiaarabiaBAEsystemsBriberyNews http://web2announcer.com/go/838161 unknown@Netscape.com Saudi Arabia's king personally welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon his arrival Saturday, a rapprochement many hope will help calm sectarian tensions threatening the Middle East. King Abdullah received Ahmadinejad at the airport, and the two were expected to begin talks immediately, the official Saudi Press Agency news agency reporte Sat, 03 Mar 2007 17:09:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/838161irankingabdullahahmadinejadsaudiarabiaNews http://web2announcer.com/go/755202 unknown@Netscape.com Three French nationals have been shot dead in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi and French governments say. The shooting, which the police are treating as a "terrorist attack," happened near the ruins of Madain Saleh, in north-western Saudi Arabia, which is popular with tourists. Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:15:03 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/755202saudiarabiaterrorismmadainsalehNews http://web2announcer.com/go/469219 unknown@Netscape.com Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia are bumpy at the best of times, but violence between Shiites and Sunnis in Lebanon and Iraq is prompting the two Mideast heavyweights to engage in new talks seeking to head off a regional crisis. Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:09:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/469219RivalsiransaudiarabianowTalkingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/176281 unknown@Netscape.com Saddam was intended to be an example of the prototype used in Saudi Arabia, America's biggest, yet untold, success story. Building all of those cities in the desert did more than rake in billions of dollars for private contractors. It cemented a relationship between the two countries that pictures of W & Saudi leaders holding hands only hint at Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:22:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/176281SaddamsaudiarabiansaforeignentanglementspopulistNews http://web2announcer.com/go/85921 unknown@Netscape.com A U.S. nuclear submarine and a Japanese tanker have collided in the Arabian Sea, a Japanese defense ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:38:31 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/85921U.S.submarinejapanesetankercollidearabiaseaNews