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"Waning Support for Defamation of Religion Resolution Undermines Defense of Islam, OIC Chief Says" PHOTO CAPTION: "In this photo released by the Saudi Press Agency, the head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, welcomes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010. The new U.S. envoy to the OIC, Rashad Hussain, stands behind Clinton’s left shoulder. (AP Photo/HO)" SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – As its annual “defamation of religion” resolution loses ground at the United Nations after a decade of successes, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is urging its members...

Concluded Thursday in Jeddah, experts and specialists from the countries of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden a regional meeting to prepare a regional plan to keep the sharks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden from extinction Meeting prepared by the regional body to maintain the environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, whose membership includes countries bordering the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and take the city of Jeddah-based. He warned the Secretary General of the Professor Ziad Bin Hamza [Abu Ghararah] to the sharks in the region has been in recent decades...

See for example this thread first. A speech in Jeddah, by Al Gore showed he's a political WHORE! He blamed the US For Guantanamo's mess in the midst of a SAUDI-paid tour!

· “The U.S. government committed “terrible abuses” against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.” · “Arabs had been ‘indiscriminately rounded up’ and held in ‘unforgivable’ conditions.” · “The Bush administration was playing into al-Qaeda’s hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.” · “The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake.” · “The worst thing we can possibly do is to cut off the channels of friendship and mutual understanding between Saudi Arabia and the United States.” These are some of the statements of former Vice President Al Gore, before an effectively all-Arab Saudi audience...

From Paris, France Between them, Dick Cheney and Al Gore have held the title of Vice President of the United States for the past 13 years and one month - give or take. This past weekend, separated by some 8,000 miles, they each managed to take careful aim and completely miss their marks. First, Vice President Cheney who shot a 78-year-old man, Harry Whittington, while ALLEGEDLY aiming at a quail; although why Cheney thought the bird presented a clear and present danger in the first place has not been fully explored or explained. The fact that the wounded man is...

For the first time on Monday, a relative of a victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks that were mostly carried out by Saudi nationals will speak in public in the kingdom. Sonia Tita Puopolo, is the daughter of Sonia Morales Puopolo, who was a passenger on American Airlines flight 11 that crashed into one of the towers of New York's World Trade Center.She is to speak during a session titled "Terrorism - The Human Toll" at the Jeddah Economic Forum starting in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah in the west of the ultra conservative kingdom on Saturday....

NEWARK, New Jersey - An American Jew was among three suspects nabbed for allegedly attempting to smuggle a missile to terror groups operating inside the United States in order to down commercial aircraft. But the smuggling attempt was in fact a sting operation orchestrated over the past 18 months by U.S., Russian and British authorities. Terrorism-related charges were leveled on Wednesday against a British arms dealer who praised Osama bin Laden and thought he was smuggling into the United States missiles, federal prosecutors announced. Two other suspected accomplices to the plot, inlcuding Yehuda Abraham, who is Jewish, face conspiracy charges,...

By Brian Whitaker The Saudi Arabian security forces have arrested 110 men at a "gay wedding" party in Jeddah, according to a Saudi online newspaper. Al-Wifaq, which has connections with the interior ministry, said the authorities had raided a wedding hall on Monday night after a tip-off and found the men - all Saudis - dancing and "behaving like women". Eighty men were later released, but 30 appeared in a Jeddah court on Wednesday to face charges, the paper said. Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia and is punished by flogging, jail or death. The raid was made a day...

Malaysia To Participate In First Islamic Solidarity Games KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 (Bernama) -- Malaysia will be sending a 115-member contingent headed by Tan Sri Zain Hashim to the 2005 First Islamic Solidarity Games in Saudi Arabia from April 8-20. The Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) president Tunku Tan Sri Imran Tuanku Ja'afar said the 84 athletes will compete in eight sports - athletics, swimming, diving, fencing, weightlifting, football, taekwondo and karate. "The meet is open to 50 member countries of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation. However participation is only limited to male athletes. However non-Muslims from Muslim countries can...

Globalterroralert.com translation and analysis Audio Excerpt #1Audio Excerpt #2 Globalterroralert.com (12/15/04): Alleged representatives of Al-Qaida's Committee in the Arabian Peninsula have released a purported audio recording of the December 6 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The audio, which appears to have been made with a cell phone or radio transmitter, captures the voices of terrorist operatives as they attempted to overwhelm security and kill "Christian" hostages.

RIYADH, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The leader of the al Qaeda attack on the U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia had been jailed for "extremist ideology" and once worked for the kingdom's austere morality police, local newspapers said on Wednesday. Saudi dailies said Fayez Awad al-Jihani was the head of an al Qaeda cell in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, where the brazen daylight attack on the U.S. consulate took place on Monday. Jihani was one of four attackers who died in the assault. A fifth was wounded and arrested. Saudi authorities identified three of the assailants, none of whom...

Summary A French citizen was killed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Sept. 26. Sources close to the French government have said the victim might have been working in concert with French intelligence in the peninsula -- which suggests militants might have penetrated a Western security and intelligence apparatus through allies in the Saudi intelligence community. While the level of penetration is unknown, it could portend a dire future for Westerners and the fight against jihadists in the kingdom. Analysis A French citizen identified as Laurent Barbot was shot dead outside a food market in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, shortly after midnight...

A Frenchman has been shot dead in the Saudi city of Jeddah, the country's official SPA news agency says. The unnamed man was killed in the city's al-Zahra district at 0100 local time (2200 GMT), an interior ministry spokesman told the agency. The spokesman said an inquiry was under way into the shooting, but gave no further details of the incident. Militants linked to al-Qaeda have killed dozens of people in a campaign to destabilise the Saudi monarchy. On 15 September, gunmen shot dead a British man, father-of-six Edmund Muirhead-Smith, in a shopping centre car park in an eastern...

Did Saddam Hussein use any of his ill-gotten billions filched from the United Nations oil-for-food program to help fund Al Qaeda? Investigations have shown that the former Iraqi dictator grafted and smuggled more than $10 billion from the program that for seven years prior to Saddam’s overthrow was meant to bring humanitarian aid to ordinary Iraqis. And the Sept. 11 Commission has shown a tracery of contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda that continued after billions of oil-for-food dollars began pouring into Saddam’s coffers and Usama bin Laden declared his famous war on the U.S. Now, buried in some of...

WASHINGTON - A U.S. marine who helps guard the American consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and his driver came under fire Monday near the consulate, but were not injured, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. A single shot was fired at their car near the consulate and Saudi officials are investigating, Boucher said. Two weeks ago the State Department, citing security concerns, announced that American diplomats in Saudi Arabia, who were ordered to leave the kingdom last April, would not be permitted to return until further notice. Also, Americans who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and at the...

JEDDAH, 15 March 2004 ? Pirated DVDs of controversial Hollywood blockbuster ?The Passion of Christ? have hit the streets and are selling like hot cakes, according to street vendors. The film is being sold outside of supermarkets, and out of the trunk of cars for the price of SR30 or less. A copy obtained by Arab News was of high quality. A street vendor said on condition of anonymity vendors underestimated demand for the movie because the dialogue is in Latin and ancient Aramaic rather than English. ?My customers don?t like subtitled movies, but they are buying this one.? The...

RIYADH, 16 February 2004 ? Security forces are getting closer to recovering the wanted GMC Suburban car full of explosives that could, according to a statement from the Ministry of Interior, lead to a ?terrorist act?. A source in the Ministry of Interior told Arab News yesterday that since the ministry made public the description of the wanted GMC car, it has received some 2,000 calls. ?Of those calls, eight of them, were precise descriptions,? added the source. The calls made by citizens are helping security forces intensify their check-ups in certain districts in the capital, mainly in the Rawdah...

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was buried on Saturday in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, where he had earlier died in hospital after being critically ill for weeks. "He is buried. The family decided and we have buried him in Jeddah," Ali Amin told Reuters by telephone from his home in Jinja, 50 miles east of the Ugandan capital Kampala. An official at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah where Amin died told Reuters his body had been taken out for burial in the Red Sea city. One of Africa's bloodiest despots, Amin had...

Idi Amin is said to have ordered the murder of 100,000 Ugandans in the 1970s, but death has not yet claimed the former strongman himself. Last week, as it emerged that Britain had made secret plans for an airborne assault on Uganda during the tense summer of 1972, Amin was in the intensive care unit of King Faisal Specialist Hospital, having been admitted with high blood pressure. After five days in a coma, however, he is once again breathing without the aid of a ventilator, though doctors say his condition remains "critical", and his sons and daughters are staying...

Security sources in Saudi Arabia said Wednesday that they recently arrested three Al-Qaida operatives holding Moroccan citizenship who plotted to hijack a civilian airliner and crash it into a Jiddah building. But Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef later Wednesday denied that the men arrested trying to board a Saudi airliner had been planning a September 11 style suicide attack, Saudi television reported. "There is no truth in this. The truth is that those who were arrested were two Moroccans who were wanted over previous security cases," Saudi television quoted Prince Nayef as saying. The television report gave no more details....