Arabic News Weekly Edition for Saudi Arabia, 4/28/2003
Weekly Edition, Saudi Arabia - Week of April 28, 2003
- Crown Prince Abdullah, Bush phone talks on Iraq, ME
The Saudi news agency said that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz on Thursday held telephone talks with the US President George Bush on the post-Saddam Iraq and the Middle East peace process. Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 5/2/2003 - Washington recommends US not to head for Saudi Arabia
The US Department Of State has warned American citizens yesterday from "unnecessary" trips to Saudi Arabia, where there is a prevailing conviction that terrorist groups "reached the final phase" of preparing for operations against the American community. Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 5/2/2003 - One American was wounded in a fire launched in a Saudi base Saudi Arabia-USA, Local, 5/2/2003
- A new government in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz yesterday formed a new government which is the third in three decades. The governmental reshuffle included abrogation of several ministries and founding new ones. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/1/2003 - US transfer of forces from Saudi Arabia to Qatar; 90 Iraqis, killed, wounded in al-Falouja massacre
It was just a demonstration for some 200 Iraqis calling for the withdrawal of the American forces from an elementary school they had occupied near al-Falouja town to the west of Baghdad. Some 100 of them returned back safe while the others fell among the killed or wounded by the bullets of the American soldiers. Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 4/30/2003 - Okaz: Saudi king pardons five thousands public right prisoners
The director general of the Saudi Arabia's prisons has announced that King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz ordered the release of some 5000 public rights prisoners. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 4/30/2003 - Rumsfeld, Powell, and Spencer to visit Saudi Arabia
Three US secretaries will be visiting will visit Saudi Arabia during the few coming days in order to hold talks with senior Saudi official. The US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld will arrive Tuesday to Riyadh in the course of his tour on the region, he had already started on Sunday by visiting Abu Dhabi and Doha. Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 4/29/2003 - Okaz: Saudi contingent join occupation forces in Iraq Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 4/28/2003