Basim sent me this: "The SPA state news agency, quoting an unnamed official, said the king
"instructed the kingdom's ambassador to Cairo to resume his post on Sunday, and
ordered the reopening of the embassy and the consulates in Alexandria and
Suez." King Abdullah told the delegation the recent deterioration in ties was
"painful to every honest Saudi and Egyptian citizen," and the kingdom's decision
to shut its embassy "was only to protect its staff." The monarch also urged "Egyptian
and Saudi media to take an honourable stance, and to speak good or shut up," clearly alluding to fierce campaigns waged in both countries since
the crisis flared up.
The article continues and quotes Saud al-Fasial: "We do not rule out that
foreign elements not wanting the good for us, or Egypt, or the whole nation,
could be behind disturbing the historic, solid and growing relations between our
two countries and peoples," he said. What an insufferable lot."
