2nd round of Saudi polls gets off to brisk start 23 Muharram 1426
DAMMAM: Voting in the second round of landmark municipal elections in Saudi Arabia got off to a brisk start Thursday in areas populated by the Shia Muslim minority in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
Police had to close the gate to one overcrowded polling center as men queued up to cast their ballots in an election that marks a first tentative step towards democracy in Saudi Arabia but remains barred to women. Polling stations opened across the oil-rich Eastern Province and southwestern regions of the country in the second round of three-stage elections to pick half the members of 178 municipal councils, the first nationwide polls in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom. The other half will be appointed by the government…
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_4-3-2005_pg4_8
Does this now mean that Saudi Arabia’s money will now be used by the Saudi people or is it going to carry on piling on in the US on top of the $3 Trillion already over there?