![Saudi students prepare to fly a home-made replica of a jet fighter on April 8, 2015 in Tabuk. The plane was nicknamed "Decisive plane" as a sign of support to Saudi-led coalitions Operation Decisive Storm against the Huthi rebels in Yemen. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ALBUHAISI
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Bader al-Rashed is a Saudi writer and journalist who has been published in a number of outlets, including Al-Riyadh, Al-Eqtisadiah and Al-Hayat. He was also an editor at Al-Ekhbariya TV and Qawafil magazine. On Twitter: @balrashed
![Saudi students prepare to fly a home-made replica of a jet fighter on April 8, 2015 in Tabuk. The plane was nicknamed "Decisive plane" as a sign of support to Saudi-led coalitions Operation Decisive Storm against the Huthi rebels in Yemen. AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ALBUHAISI
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![A Saudi policeman checks the ID card of a driver at a checkpoint in the mostly Shiite Qatif region of Eastern Province on November 25, 2011. Four people have been killed and nine others wounded in an exchange of gunfire between security forces and what the Saudi interior ministry called criminals serving a foreign power in the country's oil-producing Eastern Province. AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/12/134084489.jpg/134084489.jpg?h=5021389d&itok=MUf2d-c4)
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![Shi'ite Houthi rebels ride a patrol truck in Yareem town of Yemen's central province of Ibb October 22, 2014. Houthi fighters clashed with supporters of the Sunni Muslim Islah party in Yareem, earlier this week, residents and local officials said, raising the spectre of a wider sectarian confrontation in the country, which shares a long border with the world's top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR4B6F7](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/10/RTR4B6F7.jpg/RTR4B6F7.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=j4DygJZQ)
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![A Muslim man walks past as he reads the Koran at the Al-Rajhi mosque east of Riyadh, during the holy month of Ramadan July 24, 2013. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser (SAUDI ARABIA - Tags: RELIGION) - RTX11XN6](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2014/09/RTX11XN6.jpg/RTX11XN6.jpg?h=f7822858&itok=BG5OJXUg)
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