Posted on 05/14/2003 10:49:40 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Naw, really?
ANWR
Are you referring to the Saudis by "who's in charge?"
It's my bet the electronic cash transfer channels are wide open and tested regularly between Riyad, Jedda, and the banking elite in Switzerland and Brazil.
Who's in charge? Which way did they go George? Which armpit dictatorship will fall next?
When will our Intelligence Community let us know how many Al-Qaida have infiltrated the democratic party?
LOL...INFILTRATED?? Cut me a break. It's Saudi. They're Wahhabists. Those who had the same mindset as al Qaeda and other aliases for organized terror were already there. HAD been there all along.
Al Qaeda hasn't 'infiltrated' the Saudi military any more than it's 'infiltrated' the Saudi government or 'infiltrated' the mad mullahs of the religious extremist sect.
Saudi is the birthplace of Wahhabism, upon which the House of Saud is based. Birthplace of Binny and 15 of the 9/11 hijackers. Birthplace of al Qaeda. The country that ASSURED us, about a month ago, that it harbored no terrorist cells.
INFILTRATE? Why bother??? Al Qaeda would be preaching to the converted!
The Saudi government has allowed this to go on too long in a combination sympathy-appeasement campaign in which it FUNDS terrorism as long as it's against Israel and the West. This way, the Wahhabists can sell their oil to the West, while still adhering to their cult of world domination. Win-win scenario, monetarily speaking. The world reaps what the Saudis sow.
I'm beginning to doubt the royal family will be able to get out of this one now that it's gone too far. They're like the collective mad scientist who's creation - which was never under their control to begin with, though they thought it was - has run amok and is committing acts of mass destruction on the population. I've seen how scared they are. They thought they could control their monster, but never had control of it in the first place. Now their monster is runing amok.
The same number that insist the war in Iraq is all about oil. The same number that warn the government not to confuse the action in Iraq with the war on terror. In other words, all of them.
I trust the U.S. Government (including Bush) to announce that the Saudis are still as good as gold and wonderful allies as always.
"their" ???
Return it to western possession now, before any further oil-financed attacks against the West.
Yeah, that would be a necessary effort on their part, seeing as how their overall operations mastermind, and their head of operations for the Gulf States, had both just been arrested, and European cells intended to carry out attacks in reprisal for Iraq had been rounded up.
Sen. Bob Graham, a former chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, said the Islamic network has bolstered its capability nearly to the level of that in September 2001, when Al Qaida conducted suicide strikes in New York and Washington.
Which explains why global terror attacks have escalated recently, instead of al-Qaeda being compelled to limit attacks to freindly "home-base" territory. But, wait, just the opposite is true!
"We essentially ended the war on terror about a year ago, and since that time, Al Qaida has been allowed to regenerate," Graham said. "We have allowed the basic structure of Al Qaida to continue.
Oh, so we have given up on al-Qaeda, sez Graham.
Yes, we've been engaged in a manhunt to find their past leadership.
No, wait, we haven't, sez Graham!
But what we're also finding is that Al Qaida has a deep farm team and they're able to replace those who are killed or detained."
Oh, geez, you mean they're gonna fight back and try to adapt? Since only you seem to have anticipated this, Senator (AS IF) do you mind sharing your ideas for agressively combating al-Qaeda and allied terror groups?
[cue crickets]
But what about the artic snail darters and frozen tundra slew footed mice?
Saudi Arabia Accused by U.S. of Failure to Secure Housing Areas
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