In e-mail correspondence, John Paul Jones, the author of If Olaya Street Could Talk pointed out a couple of mistakes I had made in my review. Since I value and strive for accuracy and integrity in my writing, I am grateful to have them pointed out.
I wrote that KFSH was modeled on St. Jude's. Here's the author's correction: "King Faisal Specialist Hospital was not modeled on St. Jude's. KFSH commenced operation in 1975. It was in the late '80's that Dr. Al-Rashid starting building his St. Jude model, 40 km away from the KFSH hospital. It was eventually given to KFSH to manage and operate, and became an integral part of the KFSH operation."
Secondly, I had written that a number of the 9/11 hijackers were from the same area as Juhaiman Al Ataybi. Correction: "Juhaiman Al Ataybi, the leader of the group who took the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979 was from Qassim, which is about 300 km north of Riyadh. Several of the 9-11 hijackers were from the Asir, the mountainous region from in the far west ( Yemen's "lost provinces"). The confusion no doubt came when I said that we may have very well passed each other on those mountain roads - the post-mortem on the attack indicated they had split up, and converged on Mecca from all directions, in small groups."
