Lebanese journalists in the service of House of Saud. The tool--mere and tiny tool--of Saudi princes, Lebanese journalist Samir `Aatallah, describes Marxism in an article in Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat as a "curse." One time my father told me about a Saudi prince who invited a group of Lebanese journalists to his palace in the 1970s, and told them: my watch is worth $10,000. Whoever catches it, wins it. He then tossed it in his swimming pool. All the Lebanese journalists assembled jumped in the pool (fully dressed). I think `Atallah won it.