The Skeptical Bureaucrat

She's got something that moves my soul, and she knows I'd love to love her (The Grass Roots) The Saudi religious police hav...

H/T to Crossroads Arabia for posting news of this development. [T]he Saudi government is going to establish its own bureau of Diplomatic Se...

ABC News is reporting that former Gitmo detainees whom we released to Saudi Arabia in 2007 are believed to have been behind the Northwest Ai...

A Saudi radical and al Qaeda operative whom we released from Gitmo in 2007 was killed last week in a firefight with Saudi security forces, t...

The administration continues to make progress , of a sort, on its commitment to close Gitmo. They have now resorted to begging the governmen...

The White House has released only a bland statement about President Obama's meeting today with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah. His Ma...

While in Riyadh last week I had occasion to visit a barracks that was used by Saudi security forces. It was like any other barracks: spartan...

My work here is done, and I'm looking forward to the 14-hour flight back home tonight, connecting from Kuwait City. Here's my top tr...

So I'm in Riyadh, hanging out in the DQ (which is not the Dairy Queen, by the way) and dealing with a huge amount of sand in the air. It...

Now and then I must leave my cubicle and travel. This time I'm heading out to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where I'll spend the next...

King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has shaken up the Kingdom's religious establishment by inter alia ...