DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The DJ had the dance floor rocking. The bartender served up a special vodka punch. The host was a prince — complete with his own entourage.
An A-list LA party? Fashion week in Paris?
Try Saudi Arabia, home of roving Islamic morality police enforcing the most austere codes in the Middle East.
That's the insider account by a U.S. diplomat, whose night on the town in the Red Sea city of Jiddah (mission: to observe "social interaction" of rich Saudi youth) was summarized in a confidential memo released Wednesday by WikiLeaks.
"The underground nightlife of Jiddah's elite youth is thriving and throbbing," the memo said. "The full range of worldly temptations and vices are available — alcohol, drugs, sex — but all behind closed doors."
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