Saudi Arabia's "Arab News" Seeing the Light?

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First Signs of Normality
Mohammed Alkhereiji, Arab News War Correspondent


BAGHDAD, 14 April 2003 — Quthemiay in the northwest of Baghdad is still a war zone, and perhaps the last pocket of resistance fighting the US military.
At 11 a.m. Iraqi time, a missile launched from a private building in the district hit a monument a few yards away from the Arab News car, and as the street descended into panic another missile struck the same area. Cars collided with each other, but somehow within minutes ambulances were on the scene and the injured were being attended to.

There was no US military presence in the area, begging the question: How many civilian lives have been lost because of stray missiles launched by these Arab volunteers mainly from Syria and Sudan?

http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=25196

Let's all say it together: "Well duh."

Up until this article they have been unremittingly one sided.

 

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And this:

Mahmood Tariq, store manager for Tamimi supermarket in Riyadh, said that he was shocked by what he saw in Baghdad in the last few days.

“It was very appalling,” said Tariq. “Whatever the cause of anger, it is shameful for a Muslim population to go to that extent of violence and lawlessness.”

Iraq had once been a beacon of knowledge in the Islamic world and admired for its great libraries, scholars and its contributions to Islamic civilization. Tariq said that Muslims once looked up to Iraq as a model of a great nation and that it is a pity to see the country in its present state.

“It’s a beautiful country. How could they destroy it by their own hands?”
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=25182

 

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Remember the 50s? Remember the disillusionment that followed? I wonder if such a shift would ever take place in the middle-east.