Summary: Speakers for the motion: Sir Andrew Green: Former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Syria. Former Director of the Middle East at the Foreign Commonwealth Office. Robert Lacey: British historian who has lived in Saudi Arabia and is the author of the international bestseller (banned in Saudi Arabia) "The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Saud". Senator Wyche Fowler: Served in the US House of Representatives and as US Senator from Georgia before his appointment by President Bill Clinton as US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1996. Speakers against the motion: Dr Mark Heller: Principal Research Associate, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, and author of numerous works on Middle Eastern political and strategic affairs, including The New Middle Class and Regime Stability in Saudi Arabia, Harvard Middle East Papers No. 3 (co-authored with Nadav Safran). John R Bradley: Lived in Saudi Arabia for 21/2 years and has written extensively on Saudi and wider Middle East issues for many publications, including The Economist, The New Republic, The Daily Telegraph, Prospect and The Independent. He is the author of "Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis" (Palgrave-Macmillan, May 2005). His website is www.johnrbradley.com. Jason Burke: Chief reporter of The Observer and the author of "Al-Qaeda: the true story of radical Islam". He has been working for British national newspapers for 12 years, spending much of that time in the Middle East and Southwest Asia. Burke lived in in Pakistan in the late 90s and covered the rise and fall of the Taliban and has spent much of the last two years in Iraq. He is a regular contributor to television and radio in the UK and overseas. His book has been translated into seven languages. Burke graduated from Oxford University in 1992. Chair: James Naughtie Presents Today on BBC Radio 4. His most recent book is 'The Accidental American', an account of the relationship between Tony Blair and George W Bush. Final vote: 328 For, 269 Against
