Frances Linzee Gordon has just completed an unprecedented research assignment in Saudi Arabia for Lonely Planet’s forthcoming guide to the Arabian Peninsula. As the first person ever to be granted a visa to visit the Kingdom as an independent tourist, she kept a diary of her adventures. In the sixth of eight blog posts, Frances wonders whether she’s seeing double…
Were the long days and drawn-out journeys beginning to take their toll? Was I imagining the cars behind us, and vaguely familiar faces? At first Abdullah denied it, but one day confessed: we were followed wherever we went.
Abdullah’s natural Saudi taciturnity (and perhaps intrinsic fear of the authorities) prevented him from telling me exactly who they were, though I suspected it was the Ministry of the Interior (those in charge of the Kingdom’s internal security).
Though notorious, the Saudi secret police apparently operated in a much more subtle way. So ubiquitous […]
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