...Saudi Arabia has, for the last two years, accepted Iraq's estimation of its population, although the figure is exaggerated," Saudi media on Saturday quoted an official from the ministry of pilgrimage affairs as saying....Saudi Arabia uses a system granting countries 1000 permits for every one million Muslims... Aljazeera sought a reaction to the Saudi statements from officials in the Iraqi government, but they declined to comment citing their boycott of Aljazeera.| Soddies don't want the newly democratized Iraqis proseletizing to the Starting-To-Ask-Uncomfortable-Questions ummah. Heh. You could see that Zawahiri is already starting to feel the heat of the fires of freedom; if the Iraqis are considered unclean and cast out by the Islamists I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. The Iraqis may just find themselves too busy building their country and its economy to have time to go throw their money away in baksheesh to the Saudi bureaucracy. |
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