After spending a week in Jeddah, what I found to be most shocking was not the dress code or the peculiar security measures (photographing official buildings is technically espionage punishable by beheading) but more than anything, the place looked and felt almost exactly like a gated suburban community in Arizona, just with less golf and more praying.
He said: "It ends up being a peculiar kind of security of tenure".
These diplomatic acts of imagination are peculiar: Washington has security ties with the entity which it does not recognise diplomatically, to protect it from the one it does recognise.
DURING her appearance last week before the 9/11 commission, Condoleezza Rice and her questioners dipped into the peculiar lexicon of national security circles.
US Airways has a hub at Washington National, and Mr. Castelveter said planes bound there are often diverted to Dulles when passengers stand up in the last 30 minutes of the flight in violation of security rules peculiar to National.
Stefan Shakespeare, the Tories' new polling guru, has told Mr Duncan Smith that the expected differential turn-out between Labour and Conservative voters could mean a gain between 200 and 300 seats good enough to sell as a success.Another reason for Mr Duncan Smith's new-found security is the peculiar implosion of Mr Clarke.
It involves people who have come to Britain, presumably cleared to live in Britain, being put under pressure to deal with the security service, which seems rather peculiar if this is realpolitik rather than protecting the security of the country".
But to exploit the fullest security allowed by the peculiar rules of quantum mechanics, each "bit" of information in the key should be encoded onto exactly one photon, sent through air or down a fibre.
On the basis of this oversimplification, some theorists have proposed that social security developed out of a need peculiar to industrial societies and that there is less need or no need for social security programs in the rural areas of developing countries today.
This is some of the peculiar logic – like the false choice between security and liberty – that I expect the business-as-usual brigade will continue to rely on as they defend the status quo.
