(Financial Times-UK) In Saudi Arabia - traditionally a bastion of law and order - foreigners are targeted, some provincial officials are assassinated, and guns are in high demand. Last Saturday's discovery, in a shopping mall in the Red Sea port of Jeddah, of three sticks of dynamite timed to explode at mid-morning, was another stark reminder that residents can no longer take public security for granted.
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