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Friday, September 11, 2009

New Saudi Complaints on US Airport Treatment

For those who read Arabic: Just in time for the eighth anniversary of September 11, the Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh ran a frontpage piece on complaints of mistreatment of Saudi nationals on arrival in New York at JFK, ending with a lament that things have not improved under the Obama Administration and are in fact worse than they were under George W. Bush. The relatively short, but strong, piece alleging racist and other abusive treatment, seems to have touched a nerve, and there's now a piece on reactions to the original story. For the Arabic readers I'm posting the links now; for those who don't read Arabic, I'll try to post a precis later today or sometime soon.

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