Comments on: US Students Visit Saudi Arabia http://xrdarabia.org/2009/06/20/us-students-visit-saudi-arabia/ Informed comment and commentary about Saudi Arabia, reform, and its relations with the US Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:41:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Islam And The West http://xrdarabia.org/2009/06/20/us-students-visit-saudi-arabia/comment-page-1/#comment-21565 Islam And The West Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:56:47 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=7846#comment-21565 <strong>Accelerated Links – Israel, Palestine And Iran...</strong> Before we start just a quick update about the blogroll. Atheo News is out while The Magnes Zionist and Tikun Olam join us. Do politicians ever lie about what they do or do not know about ? More predictions of fall out between the world’s only hy... Accelerated Links – Israel, Palestine And Iran…

Before we start just a quick update about the blogroll. Atheo News is out while The Magnes Zionist and Tikun Olam join us.

Do politicians ever lie about what they do or do not know about ?
More predictions of fall out between the world’s only hy…

]]> By: John Burgess http://xrdarabia.org/2009/06/20/us-students-visit-saudi-arabia/comment-page-1/#comment-21562 John Burgess Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:32:15 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=7846#comment-21562 When I was in Riyadh, my office--primarily through my deputy in Jeddah, Robert Keith--had started an exchange program for high school students. The program crashed following the bombings of residential compounds in 2003. Saudi Arabia was simply viewed as too dangerous for young kids and I couldn't disagree. Now that things are safer, I'm glad to see the efforts, though under a different program, revived. When I was in Riyadh, my office–primarily through my deputy in Jeddah, Robert Keith–had started an exchange program for high school students. The program crashed following the bombings of residential compounds in 2003. Saudi Arabia was simply viewed as too dangerous for young kids and I couldn’t disagree.

Now that things are safer, I’m glad to see the efforts, though under a different program, revived.

]]> By: Swedish http://xrdarabia.org/2009/06/20/us-students-visit-saudi-arabia/comment-page-1/#comment-21561 Swedish Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:11:30 +0000 http://xrdarabia.org/?p=7846#comment-21561 This is very good news as we need to have more hope for the US-Saudi relations. Personally, the more dialogue we have with KSA the better off we are. It is wonderful to expose the younger generation to KSA first hand! This is very good news as we need to have more hope for the US-Saudi relations. Personally, the more dialogue we have with KSA the better off we are. It is wonderful to expose the younger generation to KSA first hand!

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