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To: dervish
"Where do you get your numbers from? How many outspoken reformists were there in Poland under the Soviet system? Did that number represent the portion of the population who wanted to throw the Communists out?"

You are comparing Polish People's Republic and SA ?

Geezus...
70 posted on 06/25/2005 7:38:47 AM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Grzegorz 246; Mind-numbed Robot

Greg: “You are comparing Polish People's Republic and SA ?”

From an article by US Saudi expert John R. Bradley who just wrote a new book on Saudi Arabia:

“What I found when I traveled to these regions is that the Saudi people who inhabit them are still very aware of their hidden history, despite all the state-sponsored propaganda; they have for the most part not embraced Wahhabism, and indeed see their country as an empire whose various regions were conquered and are still ruled over by this alien royal family, who use the Wahhabi ideology to oppress them. The overwhelming impression I was left with was that the people are just waiting for the moment to rid themselves of that imperial legacy, just as those who lived under the oppressive Communist ideology of the Soviet Union were. That, I suppose, is one of the main messages of my book, although I try to tell the stories as much as possible through the voices of the ordinary Saudi people.“

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1438264/posts

He also says taking over the SA oil fields and securing them would be fairly simple. And the US has plans to do so and he believes they will. He says US is furious because the official Saudis are sending Jihadists to fight in Iraq. He says 40% of them are Saudis.

This is a very interesting article. I plan on reading the book.


88 posted on 07/07/2005 9:54:11 AM PDT by dervish (freedom is a long distance race)
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