"Release of prisoners in Bahrain meets key opposition demand" by Associated Press / February 24, 2011
MANAMA, Bahrain — Saudi Arabia’s 86-year-old monarch [and] his government tried to get ahead of potential unrest in the oil-rich country by announcing an unprecedented economic package that will provide Saudis with interest-free home loans, unemployment assistance, and sweeping debt forgiveness.
The total cost was estimated at $36 billion, but this was not largesse. Saudi Arabia clearly wants no part of the revolts and bloodshed sweeping the Arab world....
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