Posted on 11/28/2007 10:27:05 AM PST by STARWISE
JOHN GIBSON, CO-HOST: It is the big outrage. Fifteen hundred terrorists are on the loose after Saudi Arabia sets them free. The United States just gave the kingdom big props for taking part in today's high-stakes summit to broker a peace between neighboring Israelis and Palestinians but the same country that is attempting to make the world a better place has just made the world a more dangerous place.
JAIME COLBY, GUEST CO-HOST: The homeland of Osama bin Laden and 16 of the 9/11 hijackers reportedly releasing more than a thousand terrorists and you will not believe the reason why. "Big Story" correspondent Douglas Kennedy has the stunning details. Douglas, say it ain't so.
DOUGLAS KENNEDY, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. You've heard of drug counseling. These guys got terrorist counseling and now the Saudis say they're ready to rejoin the world. It is a huge number of jailhouse conversions and some experts today are suspicious of Saudi Arabia.
KENNEDY (voice-over): The Saudi Arabian government gave them counseling. Now they say some 1,500 terrorists are reformed.
STEVE POMERANTZ, FORMER FBI ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: My reaction is to be very, very skeptical.
KENNEDY: The Saudi government made the announcement yesterday after releasing the prisoners, all of whom at one point had been members of al Qaeda and had sworn allegiance to Usama bin Laden. Steve Pomerantz is the former chief of counterterrorism for the FBI and he calls the jailhouse conversions dubious.
POMERANTZ: People who hold this Islamist terrorist philosophy do it out of deeply held beliefs and to believe they can be changed by some superficial counseling is a very questionable concept to hold.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
They’re sorry....yeah sorry they didn’t kill more Jews and Americans.
Saudi Arabia Releases 1,500 ‘Redeemed’ Prisoners
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=19696
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Saudi Arabia Frees 1,500 al-Qaeda Members
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/276437.aspx
The AQ needs a brigade of reinforcements ... so voila, Saudia Arabia comes through.
Will they also release a ‘sorry’ rape victim???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931632/posts
You gotta be freaking kidding me.
It’s time to take the oil price hit and drop this cult of death country from our buddy list.
Did they give these "sorry" terrorists free bus passage to Iraq while they were at it???
Saudi Arabia is every bit as evil as the Democrats.
>>Unbelievable.
You keep using that word.. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Officials in Saudi Arabia have released more than 1,500 al-Qaeda members from prison, requiring them to refrain from jihad in the Arabian Penisula [sic].IOW, Saudi Arabia freed them on the condition that they take their business elsewhere.
There's no place like Scrappleface...there's no place like Scrappleface...
Damn, it's still from FOX.
And yet people ridicule Ron Paul when he suggests that our soldiers should not be dying on behalf of corrupt tyrants and thugs.
Yeah !! Make you want to hit the wall, and then they do this:
Saudi Arabia says 208 people arrested in terror sweep
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931751/posts
Guess punishment is only necesssry in SA if it’s for terrorism against them or you’re a woman who’s innocently in the company of a male who’s not her husband or an innocent rape victim.
What gave you the idea that our guys are over there on the Saudis' behalf?
And we will do .... What? The Saudis have the US family jewels in a lock box. It doesn’t seem to matter if it is a Bush or a Clinton or an Albright or a Rice.
I see it as "if we don't do something about the terrorists no one else will". This makes his position even more dangerous.
BTTT
One one condition.
Keep them all in Saudi Arabia and do not permit them to leave its borders.
I don’t think even the Saudi government is buying this line of bullsh*t.
“The 1,500 were among 3,200 militants with whom a government-appointed “counselling committee” met around 5,000 times as part of their rehabilitation, daily Arab newspaper Al-Watan said, quoting committee member Mohammad Al-Nujaimi.
“After several graded sessions with the committee, and having been convinced of their misguided vision, they renounced their erroneous ideologies, including the concept of driving out all infidels from the Arabian Peninsula,” Nujaimi, also a professor of comparative jurisprudence at the King Fahd Security College, told the newspaper, quoted Saudi daily Arab News.
Saudi-born Al-Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden has called on his followers to “cleanse the Arabian Peninsula of polytheists”.
Nujaimi said the suspects had been largely confused about the meaning of jihad, which led to them believing in committing rampant violence. This ideology also views present Muslim rulers, scholars and the public as apostates, and therefore demands the establishment of a single Islamic state, he added.
The counselling committee is the brainchild of Prince Muhammad bin Naif, assistant minister of interior for security affairs, and was established in 2004 with the approval of Interior Minister Prince Naif.
The Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Call and Guidance jointly supervise activities of the committee comprising 100 members. Members include religious scholars, preachers, specialists in religious doctrine and law, psychologists and social workers.
The committee, which is tasked with the duty of reforming youth members, firstly evaluates the personality of the suspect and the ideological crisis he has suffered, and then decides how best to alter his mind of any mistaken impressions, said Al-Nujaimi.
In the later stages of counselling, the committee holds many sessions on the concept of obedience to a ruler, loyalty, conditions for bayah (declaring allegiance to a ruler) and the mistaken concept of murder and violence without guilt.
The paper did not clarify if the remaining 1,700 militants had refused to renounce the ideology of takfeer.”
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/504837-saudi-releases-1500-extremists?ln=en
“Fifteen hundred terrorists are on the loose after Saudi Arabia sets them free.”....Oh well, the border wall is still a joke so they will probably end up in Mexico for a casual stroll into the U.S.!....
Yet another Run Paul supporter showing a lack of understanding of world events (just as Run Paul himself shows that lack of understanding). Please tell me what Saudi Arabi has to do with Iraq?
Surely you don’t believe that the only thugs and tyrants in the Middle East are found in Saudi Arabia?
Not at all. But, Saudi Arabi didn’t invade their neighbor, and was summarily removed from that neighbor through a coalition of military might, and then spent 12 years thumbing their nose at the rest of the world while Billy Jeff received oral pleasure in the oral orofice. Removing Saddam was the right thing to do (should have been done in 1991), and Run Paul should know better. But, he doesn’t because he thinks this is the way to get himself elected (by way of his turd party candidacy after he loses ((bigtime)) in the Primary).
Some Paulies get offended when we criticize al Qaeda.
I think the Paulites just like to be offended period.
I might have let them go, too.
After surgically implanting tracking devices, so I could follow them back to their Al Qaeda cells.
reform them how? switch back and forth between waterboarding and tasing? a very painful combination...
Now, why on earth would they want to prevent them from their inner struggles? </sarcasm>
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