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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Scoobah who wrote (603)11/26/2001 12:30:24 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 32591
 
I've always wondered how much they've gotten away with because of the simple language barrier. How many western journalists know any Arabic, let alone enough to verify themselves what is being said at the source.

I am certain that Arafat has fully and cynically profited from this from the beginning.

Remember how the Saudis sent our ambassador, Hume Horan, packing after only six months? Couldn't have someone really able to understand what was actually going on....

nytimes.com

What the Saudis didn't like about him, though, was that he was the best Arabic speaker in the State Department
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