Arabic News Weekly Edition for Saudi Arabia, 5/19/2003
Weekly Edition, Saudi Arabia - Week of May 19, 2003
- Bush talks with the Saudi crown prince on US- Saudi relations
The Saudi news agency said that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah Ibn Abdul Aziz and the US President George W. Bush held on Wednesday phone talks and discussed relations between Saudi Arabia and the US. The agency said that the two sides discussed conditions in the ME region, foremost being the Middle East peace process. Saudi Arabia-USA, Politics, 5/23/2003 - American, British, and German embassies in Saudi Arabia closed
The world yesterday lived the fears of a expected terror attacks where the US said that the al-Qaida organization intends to launch attacks in Saudi Arabia or in the USA, according to intelligence informationthat led to a decision to the American, German and British diplomatic withdrawal from Saudi Arabia and declaring a state of alert, as the Bush administration raised the level of terror level, blocked the area besieging the White House and the US additional nationwide security measures. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/21/2003 - Saudi Talal Bin Badr, Elected Chairman of Arab Basket-Ball Union, Moroccan Vice-President Regional-Saudi Arabia, Sports, 5/21/2003
- Al-Watan: Saudi human rights committee to be declared within days
An official source at the Saudi Arabian foreign ministry said that the civic human rights committee which was approved by the Saudi King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz includes 40 members of university teachers, members of the Shura council, lawyers and certain academics will be announced within the few coming days. Saudi Arabia, Politics, 5/20/2003 - King Fahd undergoes eye surgery Saudi Arabia, Local, 5/20/2003