We Fight For What's Right?

Are we fighting in the Middle East for a better society? Do we support Saudi Arabia financially and militarily because we like the freedoms they offer their people? This is what we our soldiers are fighting for and dying to preserve...

From Arabian Business...

A teenage girl who tried to commit suicide after being told by her father she would have to marry a 75-year-old man has appealed to a human rights organisation in a bid to stop the marrage.

The forced marriage drove the 16-year-old Saudi girl to drink bleach rather than marry the man, it has been reported.

Her own father was "swapping" her for the 13-year-old daughter of the other man and the girl saw suicide as her only way out of an unwanted marriage, Dubai's Online news service Al-Arabiya reported.

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WEDDING WORRIES: Human rights organisations are increasingly concerned about the number of child brides in Saudi Arabia.

The girl in the photo is not the girl from the story, but is a girl in an Arabian Halloween costume.