"Saudi king's state visit to Britain faces protests and boycotts" (although the New York Times has just declared him a non-corrupt reformer). This news item will be censored from all Arab media--I better see it in Al-Akhbar and As-Safir. But one prince explains that this is an old bribe after all: "Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf, the Saudi ambassador to Britain, insisted his government had nothing to say on the BAE affair. "This is a British controversy," he told reporters. "The future of our relationship will not be held hostage because of an issue that happened a long time ago.""