When Shi'ite meets Sunni: Ahmadinejad in Riyadh Friday

The fun-loving and adorable Holocaust-denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Friday, and plans to stick around for a few days, the Arab News is reporting.

The article is a puff piece, surprising for the Arab News, because it has more journalistic credibility that other publications in the region. The Iranian president will be meeting with senior Saudi government officials, but it's not clear if the man-in-the-windbreaker will have an audience with King Abdullah.

I called the article a puff-piece, because well-documented Saudi discrimination of its Shi'ite minority has to be a contention point for the Iranians, and the article left out any discussion of this issue.

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