Sunday, April 14, 2013

Documentation of news in media of Saudi princes

Look at this story on Al-Arabiyyah (the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law): it is about "the smuggling of 1200 fighters from Hizbullah through water passages into Syria" (I don't understand why they just don't smuggle them by land).  Anyway, the story was a major story in Saudi media yesterday and it was based on a story in the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid Al-Faysal, Al-Watan.  (It is very cute when a medium of a Saudi prince covers a story in a medium of another Saudi prince).  But Al-Watan's original story is attributed to...--you guessed it--"sources".  Kid you not.