It's important to be unflinchingly aware of the environment in which Iraq exists. This is from Arab News:
Naif Rules Out Political Parties in Kingdom
Staff Writer
JEDDAH, 19 March 2003 — The Kingdom does not plan to set up political parties, Interior Minister Prince Naif announced yesterday. “We have never thought of establishing political parties,” he told reporters.
However, the minister acknowledged that a group of Saudi intellectuals had presented the idea to Crown Prince Abdullah, deputy premier and commander of the National Guard, during a meeting about two months ago.
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