Hmmm!?! The Saudies are launching an ad campaign about reform in their ...

country. I was listening to KMOX outa ST Louis. A women speaking in Arabic (I guess) was talking about steps being taken in Saudi Arabia to reform their country. This was identified as a way to combat the root causes of terrorism in their country. Has anyone else heard this ad? Any oppinions? :smoke:

for a couple weeks or so now.

Laughed and laughed.

Awful funny how they are suddenly concerned about terrorism after the Riyadh bombings.

House of Saud.....House of Thugs and Murderers is more like it.

Not sure where I picked it up, most likely international press though. I certainly hope they do put forth some changes in their oppressiveness which has allowed for extremism. I read a fairly decent article in NG last month.
Saudi ranked number 2 on the human rights violater list that was published back in March or February of this year. Iraq was number 9 I believe. If you actually read AI reports on Iraq many of things cited had to do with Kurdish controlled N Iraq, not Saddam. Go figure!
Now Egypt needs to follow suit.

:hi:

And do they plan on doing any followups, progress reports, or is this just more talk and no walk?

I read somewhere that SA is having its first ever elections soon for regional and local offices. I didn't pay much attention, but I guess it's a start.

There is for sure something going on there recently as there have been shootouts between the cops and terrorists and lots of arrests of radicals in the last year or so.

They were hired by the Saudi government immediately following 9/11 to spin that country's complicity in the terrorist act. Saudi Arabia hired PR giant Burson-Marsteller on September 14 to provide "issues counseling and crisis management" and to place ads in The New York Times expressing Saudi support for the US in its time of crisis.
They are also Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress's PR firm too.
http://www.guerrillanews.com

Dirty hands - a few of Burson-Marsteller's less public clients

Regimes
Argentina's fascist junta
Indonesian Government
El Salvadorian Government
Nigerian Government (during the Bifran war)
Mexican Government ( to promote NAFTA)
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu
South Korea
UNITA - The US-sponsored Angolan guerrilla army.

Corporate
Union Carbide (after the Bhopal disaster, which killed thousands)
Babcock & Wilcox (for Three Mile Island nuclear spill)
Exxon (following the Exxon-Valdex oil spill)

www.ethicalconsumer.org/magazine/corpwatch/burson.htm