The Foreign Office said it knew of the broadcast but could not confirm the details. The Prince had been planning to go to Riyadh to open an exhibition of paintings by a member of the Saudi royal family, Prince Khaled. But as human rights groups protested at the lack of consular access and legal representation for Alexander Mitchell, the accused bomber, and other detained Britons, senior Foreign Office officials were debating whether the trip should go ahead. By Anton La Guardia in Riyadh London Electronic Telegraph Death penalty dilemma FOUR bombings and a televised confession have lifted the lid on a murky world of alcohol dealing and illicit boozing among Saudi Arabia's expatriate community. The white tribe of Arabia has taken a vow of silence.
Nobody knows anything, nobody talks.
The Sicilians would be impressed by such ironclad omerta, and they know a thing or two about smuggling. In Saudi Arabia, the illicit trade revolves around alcohol. And the business is so lucrative that scores are being settled violently. Four explosions in three months killed Christopher Rodway, a Briton, partly blinded another and injured four more Britons and an Irish woman. An Irishman escaped death when a bomb under his car failed to explode.