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Saudi Newspaper Said to Be Censored (washingtonpost.com)

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia –– The government is censoring a leading Arabic-language newspaper after it published a column saying the Information Ministry controls the press in Saudi Arabia, the paper's regional director and author of the column said Saturday.

In another statement Saturday questioning press freedom in this desert kingdom, a writer criticized the Saudi media for not reporting the firing this past week of an editor whose paper printed a poem accusing Islamic judges of being corrupt and following the orders of "tyrants."
The Interior Ministry ordered the dismissal of Mohammed Mokhtar al-Fala, editor-in-chief of the daily Al-Madina, earlier in the week. The poet, Abdul Mohsen Musalam, was jailed.

Please bear in mind, most of the September 11th hijackers came from Saudi Arabia and were most emphatically not impoverished.