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| arabia to get new books |
| 2004-03-03 |
| Saudi Arabia’s Education Ministry has recalled one million notebooks from schools around the kingdom because they contain mistakes including references to the "Persian Gulf," al-Watan newspaper said Wednesday. Arab states call it the "Arabian Gulf." just who gulf is it anyway. A map in the notebooks also inaccurately represented Saudi Arabia’s southern border with Yemen, a source of decades of dispute between the two countries which signed a border treaty in 2000, the paper said. It said a senior ministry official had told the agency which produced the books to halt distribution, withdraw those already handed out and explain how it would rectify the errors. |
| Posted by:muck4doo |
| #3 M4D We all no it's really chainneys gulf. it's were the prisian glut came from back in 84 (How's that folks... still missing the cadence. Lucky?) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-3 5:03:38 PM |
| #2 Hmmm. I wonder if the maps show Israel... I think I already know the answer, heh... Everyone here knows that all maps produced by Arab countries have a fuzzy kinda blank spot where Israel is, right? No detail is too trivial, especially if pointless and self-defeating, for these guys. And, BTW mucky, it's MY Gulf. Mine! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-3 4:50:16 PM |
| #1 Must have had help from the US NEA in preparing the study guides. (They're the same ones who gave Dan Quayle the card with the word P-o-t-a-t-o-e on it.) |
| Posted by: GK 2004-3-3 3:50:07 PM |