“Paying the price for
\nincompetence.”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> Think of it as the Keystone Kops, Saudi-style.
\nWhat “often happens in the kingdom,” he writes, “[is] a case of the police stumbling on a plot by
\naccident rather than through smart detective work.” The interior ministry, which is responsible for
\ncatching terrorists and which is run on “supposedly Islamic principles,” has
\nbeen more occupied policing such offenses as “witchcraft, adultery, sodomy,
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