Saudi protests apparently thwarted
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DC611AD1-D5B5-4311-A64A-3B6B95D463F9.htm
Saudi police quell anti-regime protest
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/178419
Saudis detain protestors trying to hold anti-regime demo: witnesses
http://www.turkishpress.com/world/news.asp?id=041216131553.dfwzy5oz.xml
...snip..The witnesses said Thursday that they had heard shooting near a cemetery in the Red Sea city and seen about half a dozen people being detained by police, who were out in force for the planned demonstration.
They said protesters were seen running away as heavily-armed police chased them down alleyways in Jeddah's old town. ...snip
(6 people? "Out in force"? LOLOLOL!)
Totally off topic -- but funny as heck.
N.J. Nun Allegedly Threatens To Knock Out Pupil's Teeth
UPDATED: 7:54 am EST December 16, 2004
WOODBRIDGE, N.J. -- Officials have fired a nun at a Roman Catholic school in Woodbridge who is accused of threatening to give a sixth-grader a knuckle sandwich.....
http://www.wnbc.com/education/4001891/detail.html