Dave Frightens Me wrote:
On 20 May 2006 13:49:18 -0700, "eetinBelgië"
wrote:


Dave Smith wrote:
eetinBelgië wrote:

Saudi Arabia hopes to attract a million visitors a year with the help
of a new tourism visa.

Eighteen approved tour operators in the kingdom have begun offering
visa services as part of a series of tourism initiatives announced last
week at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai. The Saudi government is
also to begin issuing permits for tour guides from next month.

I bet that people will be lining up to go to a country that has previously barred tourists and keeps foreign workers in housing
compounds partly for their own safety and partly to stop them from polluting Saudis with their infidel beliefs. I can't myself
wasting my time and money to go a land of sand, sun and Islamic extremists.

I wonder how many are Islamic extremists, and I wonder how many of them
resort to violence.
Do you have some figures ?

It was enough for me to see the story of a British man who went beyond
the compound, and was caught where a bomb went off. He wasn't hurt
badly by the bomb, but he was later 'questioned' to within an inch of
his life.

Yes, I mean that he was tortured to the point that he wont ever
recover.
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did you ever see 'Midnight Express' ?
did you ever go to Turkey ?