Saudi diplomat’s poem for killers

Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Britain has written a poem praising Palestinian suicide bombers that was published yesterday in a mass market Arabic daily.

The news is likely to strain relations between the oil rich Gulf state and the United States after Ghazi Algosaibi also used the poem to criticise America and said the White House was ‘filled with darkness’.

Algosaibi, a well-known poet and writer, had his latest work published in Arabic on the front page of the London-based al-Hayat newspaper. He has been Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Britain for more than a decade and was once quoted as saying: ‘Poetry is the soul of the Arabs.’ Guardian UK