- Prince Bandar bin Sultan just got another four years as head of the Saudi National Security Council. No surprises, really, but worth noting. The timing after the assassination attempt on Muhammad bin Nayef is interesting, though.
- Also in Saudi news, Crown Prince Sultan just received King ‘Abdullah of Jordan and President ‘Ali ‘Abdullah Salih of Yemen "at his palace in Agadir." As I suspect most of you know, Agadir is not in Saudi Arabia, but in southern Morocco. Sultan, who has been "convalescing" from illness for a rather extended period, seems to live there now.
- Odd things seem to be going on at Cairo airport: not only have many Egyptian bloggers and others been held up for hours or had their computers seized, but now an American, a long-term resident of Egypt, has been denied re-admission and deported with little explanation. I have no clue about the merits of the case, nor do I know the American involved, but it's all over the Egyptian opposition blogosphere. The basic story here. A news account here. No comment on the merits of the case since I don't know them.
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On the Saudi terrorism issue, there is an interesting piece in yesterday's Ar-Riyadh giving a precis of a Saudi Television 1 interview with General Mansur At-Turky.
http://www.alriyadh.com/2009/09/03/article456879.html
Some discussion of Saudi anti-terrorism strategy goals and methods. And how success there is forcing AQAP to change its tactics.
Mansur also discusses the "insaniyya" of Amir Muhammad and the repatriation campaign. A theme that the press is emphasizing in connection with a variety of stories, Fawaaz Al-'Utaibi's return, attempts to assist the return of the mother and two children from Yemen, etc.
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