Saudi Arabia to allow foreigners to carry weapons for protection

[The1calledTKE]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) -- Saudi Arabia will allow foreigners who feel threatened by the wave of militant violence in the kingdom to carry guns for their protection, Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz said.

"In principle a Saudi has the right to carry a weapon, if he has a permit. Likewise a foreign resident, if he felt in danger he could get a permit to carry a weapon," Nayef was quoted as saying by the official Saudi Press Agency on Thursday.

"I mean a personal weapon which a person can have in his own country," the prince said.

Al Qaeda supporters have waged a year-long campaign of violence targeting Westerners, government sites and oil workers in the kingdom, prompting some foreigners to flee the country which is the world's biggest oil exporter.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...eut/index.html

Seems like a reasonable thing. But how many people want to bet the first person from the west that kills a Saudi even in self defense would be put on trial?

[Kevin]

I'm sure it would be protested by some as an atrocity. I say we bomb the protest.

But seriously, I think that if they kill someone in self-defense, if the Saudi's are actually doing this in their own interest, they'll probably be in the clear.