Posted on 07/25/2005 7:43:09 PM PDT by Cagey
Last month, an attack on contractors at the Saudi oil facility in Yanbu killed six Westerners, two of them Americans. Senior Saudi officials told the world al-Qaida terrorists were to blame and al-Qaida claimed responsibility.
But tape obtained by NBC News reveals that, inside Saudi Arabia, on Saudi television, Crown Prince Abdullah told a strikingly different story about who was to blame.
NBC News translated Abdullah's remarks from Arabic: “Zionism is behind it. It has become clear now. It has become clear to us. I don’t say, I mean... It is not 100 percent, but 95 percent that the Zionist hands are behind what happened.”
Other senior Saudi officials reaffirmed the claim that supporters of Israel — Zionists — were behind the terror attacks.
Prince Nayef, the Saudi Interior Minister said, “Al-Qaida is backed by Israel and Zionism.”
Some call this dangerous Saudi doubletalk. “The crown prince’s statements are inflammatory and irresponsible,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. “On the one hand they say reassuring words to American leaders, but on the other hand they spout inflammatory anti-Semitic rhetoric for their domestic population.”
Monday, a report by the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations said such statements undermine efforts to “change the mindset that foments extremism” and undercut otherwise “significant improvement” in Saudi efforts against al-Qaida.
For example, in the last year, the Saudis have waged sometimes daily gun battles against al-Qaida cells, passed new anti-terror financing laws and cracked down on charities helping fund bin Laden.
But the report complains that members of the Saudi elite who’ve allegedly financed al Qaida remain free and unpunished, including Yassin al Qadi — specially designated as a “global terrorist” by the U.S. Treasury Department.
According to William Wechsler, former National Security Council member and co-author of the Council on Foreign Relations report, ....
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If they're speaking English, they're lying.
Change a few words, add references to the amen corner and you've got one of buchanan's old articles.
Where would we be without our good friends, the Saudis?
That'll come about the same time that they say any Jew is innocent - meaning "never".
9/11 would be just another day in September.
They had just cause to nuke the whole Arab world years ago; they chose not to.
Had a feeling this was coming. What a surprise.
It always makes me wonder when stuff like that happens.
I thought about posting it myself, but was worried that I might get stuck by lightening.
I don't know. Perhaps the poster was a recycled "troll", but if that were the case they should have just banned the poster and not dropped the story. It seems a legitimate news story to me.
Over that little subtext is the position that once again the Jewa are to blame. It satisfies the Wahhabis on the surface, or at least makes him unassailable on that front, Europe laps it up because it excuses their own timidity, and both Israel and the U.S. are so used to the cant by now that it's water off a duck's back.
There will come a time, perhaps soon, when merely blaming Israel won't get him off the hot spot. I suspect that when Iran sets off her first atomic bomb the Wahhabis will consider that their Shi'ite rivals have leapfrogged them in the race to see who leads worldwide jihad and will demand that Abdullah respond with his own nuclear program. And at that point things will get very interesting, and we'll be thanking God and George Bush that Iraq is no longer in the mix.
And I consider myself an optimist.
Ping
Agreed. Catching Prince Abdullah in this two-faced crap is worth reporting.
It doesn't look like this one is going to pulled, but perhaps we can get an explanation as to why the other one was. It doesn't seem like too much to ask....
It always makes me wonder when stuff like that happens
Actually it would be nice to always get a brief explanation.
I am sending a copy of this to Jim Robinson.
This bastard needs a smart bomb to land in his bed one night....
who do you think is raking it all the $$$ from the oil.....a 100 fold return on the terrorism donations he has made to AQ
I got the feeling it was pulled because it was originally posted by someone who signed up tomorrow and was not commenting on it.
retread.
"Actually it would be nice to always get a brief explanation."
Aint gonna happen
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