 "Al Watan" provides extensive but uncritical coverage of local news in addition to the usual positive reporting on the activities of the ruling family and the government.An extraordinary article was published by Bandar bin Sultan, then-Saudi ambassador to Washington, in "Al Watan", on 1 June 2004.Prince Bandar regarded the efforts of the Saudi security forces against terrorism as ‘feeble’, and declared that terrorism "has nothing to do with America or Israel or the Christians or Jews .