The other day I noted that the Saudis seemed to be closing down media coverage of Khaddam, and that al-Jazeera looked to be taking advantage of it. One little piece of evidence in support of that claim: currently al-Jazeera's website has a big story up on Khaddam's latest interview with a French radio station, during which he escalated his anti-Bashar campaign with the accusation that Bashar personally ordered Hariri's murder. On al-Arabiya's website, not a word of this. It's not "proof" or anything, but it's suggestive.
UPDATE: the BBC is on the story, with no new details.
All this coenciding with Bashar's visit to Saudi to meet the custodian.
Asharq Alawsat still has Khaddam's Jan 6th interview on their English site, but nothing new.
P.S. The aljazeera link has an extra http:// in it.
Posted by: Yohan | January 10, 2006 at 09:03 PM
Asharq Al Awsat is still ocvering it. They are one of the flag-ships of Saudi media. I havent looked at the Arabic version, but the full interview with him is here in English:
http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=3333
Posted by: Abu Sinan | January 12, 2006 at 10:01 AM
that's the old interview, pre-dating the alleged gag order - has there been any new content since that allegedly went into effect?
Posted by: the aardvark | January 12, 2006 at 01:45 PM
Not that I've seen. Given the "gag order" dont you think they would pull that stuff down? Sometimes I think the Saudi run press doesnt know whether they are coming or going.
Posted by: Abu Sinan | January 12, 2006 at 02:40 PM