Posted on 03/01/2005 5:03:06 AM PST by SJackson
An American citizen trained by the Saudi government in Virginia will stand trial for plotting to assassinate the president of the United States and yet the media focus on allegations of torture?
For a free people in the age of terrorism, what is the proper balance between civil liberties and national security?
This debate wracks every Western country. Looking at the United States, the "united we stand" solidarity that followed September 11, 2001, lasted just some months, after which a much deeper divide emerged as conservatives proved far more profoundly affected by the atrocities than did liberals. The result has been the growing political acrimony of the past three years.
Many examples illustrate this divide. For the most recent, take the argument concerning Ahmed Omar Abu Ali between the conservative Bush administration and its mostly liberal critics.
Born in the United States to immigrant Jordanian parents, Abu Ali, 23, was indicted last week of plotting the assassination of President George W. Bush. The prosecution asserts he was in touch with Al-Qaeda and in 2002 discussed ideas of eliminating Bush by getting "close enough to the president to shoot him on the street" or by deploying a car bomb.
Abu Ali's biography indicates how he might have ended up as an Al-Qaeda operative.
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Frankly, other than committed america hating leftists no one cares a whit about the media's focus on 'torture'.
The west is going to have to come to grips with the fact that the enemy is among us. It is in the form of militant islam. Or maybe (militant) islam. Or maybe just islam.
We are extremely fortunate to have a leader of the free world who fully understands the power of free men and their ideas. We see the dominoes of repression falling in the mid-east on a daily basis. I hope he has enough time in the next four years to complete the job and set up a successor who shares his ideas.
Pipes is right on the money, as always.
There.
I fixed it.
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An American citizen trained by the Saudi government in Virginia will stand trial for plotting to assassinate the president of the United States and yet the media focus on allegations of torture?
And they're going to throw everything they can against the upcoming trial, to get him acquitted over the Great Satan. Bet on it.
Bump for later
Here is a list of some of the attacks against foreigners in the oil-rich kingdom since 1995:
1995
Nov 13: A car bomb explodes at the Saudi National Guard building in Riyadh where US military advisers work. Five US soldiers and two Indian nationals are killed, and more than 60 people wounded. Al-Qaeda is blamed.
1996
June 25: A truck loaded with two tonnes of explosives destroys a building at the US military base of Khobar in the east of the country. Nineteen US nationals are killed and almost 400 wounded.
2003
May 12: Thirty-five people are killed, including nine Americans and 12 suicide bombers, in attacks on three expatriate compounds in Riyadh on the eve of a visit by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, who said they appeared to be the work of Al-Qaeda.
Nov 8: Seventeen people, most of them Egyptian and Lebanese expatriates, are killed and 122 more wounded in a car bomb attack against a residence in a western suburb of Riyadh. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.
2004
May 1: Six Westerners including two Americans, two Britons, an Australian and a Canadian, plus a Saudi, are killed when gunmen open fire on the offices of a Western company in the northwestern port town of Yanbu. The attackers and a Saudi national guardsman are killed in an ensuing car chase.
May 22: German national Hermann Dingel, an employee of Saudi Arabian Airlines, is shot dead in Riyadh.
May 29-30: Twenty-two people, including an American, a Briton, an Italian, a Swede and eight Indians, are killed and 25 others wounded when militants attack and take hostages at a residential complex in the eastern town of Khobar.
A statement attributed to Al-Qaeda says the organisation is determined to "cleanse the Arabian peninsula of unbelievers".
June 2: Unknown assailants fire on two US soldiers near Riyadh, wounding one of them, in an attack later claimed by Al-Qaeda.
June 6: An Irish cameraman working for the BBC, Simon Cumbers, is shot dead in southern Riyadh, while his British colleague Frank Gardner is seriously wounded. This is the first attack on foreign journalists in Saudi Arabia.
June 8: An American trainer of the Saudi National Guard, Robert Jacob, is shot dead at his Riyadh home. Al-Jazeera television broadcasts a video on June 13, purporting to show the killing.
June 12: American Kenneth Scroggs is shot dead while compatriot Paul Johnson is kidnapped in Riyadh, both acts claimed by Al-Qaeda.
June 18: After threatening to kill Johnson if Al-Qaeda suspects detained in the kingdom are not released within 72 hours, his captors say they have executed the American.
Photos of Johnson's decapitation are posted on an Islamist website, while Saudi authorities announce on July 22 they have found his head.
Aug 3: Irish national Anthony Christopher Higgins is killed in an Al-Qaeda attack on his office in Riyadh.
Sept 15: British engineer Edward Smith, 50,is shot dead in Riyadh in an attack claimed by Al-Qaeda. He was working for telecommunications company Marconi, which is advising the Saudi national guard.
Sept 26: Frenchman Laurent Barbot is shot dead while at the wheel of his car in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, in what Saudi authorities describe as a terror attack.
Dec 6: The US consulate in Jeddah comes under attack as gunmen storm the building and hold staff hostage. Saudi national guardsmen enter the compound, where gunfire rang out, an AFP correspondent at the scene said.
The MSM is the jihadists' fifth column. They need to be handled like the traitors they are.
Thanks for the ping!
How about the part where the Old Media reported that this vermin kid was the "valedictorian of his high school in Virginia" but conveniently neglected to mention that it was a special muslim terrorist high school.
Except on FNC.
I don't count FNC as MSM.
I'm sure he's their pride and joy, alum nearly makes the big time.
BTTT
Same 'ole saudi crap again. Wake up AMERICA! The saudia educated muslimes are the enemy within! Correction, they are all our enemies.
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