Saudi students studying in the US have achieved a record figure as their number has reached 11,000 after several years that witnessed a drop in their numbers following the September 11 attacks, Asharq Al-Awsat, the London-based Arabic-language daily reported Sunday. Reminder: support for Al-Qaeda in Iraq is strong in the Kingdom.
These include 1,653 Saudi girls who got scholarships to study in America. The increase came as a result of the measures taken by the Saudi and American authorities, including the Saudi governmentÂ’s huge scholarship program to enable Saudi students to study abroad. The program began last year, along with easing in the issue of student visas from the American Embassy in Saudi Arabia...