NPR Interviews Sulaiman Al-Hattlan, columnist for the Saudi daily paper Al Watan in Ryadd. He is also a Harvard Professor of Middle East Studies. Saudi Arabia to Hold First-Ever Elections The last question asked of Sulaiman Al-Hattlan: Q: “One last question- when the US began this war against Iraq in the spring a lot of writers and analysts were saying this might help generate a kind of wave of democratic freedom throughout the region. Is there any connection between the US war against Iraq and Saddam and this kind of nascent democratic flowering in and Saudi Arabia?” Answer: ”The discourse...