Posted on 11/12/2006 9:34:12 PM PST by jmc1969
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi Arabia's interior minister on Sunday called Iraq a major base for terrorism, a sign of growing alarm over the neighboring country where U.S. forces are struggling to prevent Sunni-Shiite violence from escalating into full-scale civil war.
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Naif said the situation in Iraq is deteriorating daily and the country has become a threat to the whole region.
``There is no doubt that Iraq now forms a main base for terrorism,'' he told the pan-Arab Al-Arabiya television station in the capital Riyadh.
``The situation in Iraq is changing day after day, and this situation has numerous threats,'' he said before his departure to the United Arab Emirates to attend a meeting on security issues in the Gulf states.
U.S. and Iraqi officials have long complained about Saudi extremists crossing into Iraq to join the battle against American and coalition forces. U.S. officials announced last April that Saudis were one of the top five nationalities among foreign fighters captured by coalition forces in Iraq.
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How about they send some soldiers to help out instead of money for the martyrs?
really... not according to Democrats.
Ruh-roh! The Dems are not going to be amused by this turn of events!
``There is no doubt that Iraq now forms a main base for terrorism,'' he told the pan-Arab Al-Arabiya television station in the capital Riyadh.
``The situation in Iraq is changing day after day, and this situation has numerous threats,''
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Well I guess its time to give them something else to worry about, like invading Syria.
This is a joke, right?
Before the elections, the press and the dems would have agreed with these statements, as they wanted things to look bad...after the election, the Dems will blame the bush administration for putting their Saudi friends up to this to try to garner support for a "stay the course" policy...They will claim Bush called the Saudis up and said, hey, make it look bad there so we can stay for a while longer...
Everything will reverse now that the election is over, IMHO.
Well, they're causing it, those idiot Saudis!!! From where is all the terror coming, but from Saudi, and Pakistan, and Egypt, etc.
It's all a matter of point of view. Arabs killing Arabs beats Arabs killing Jews any day.
The problem has been openly discussed for well over a year. The plans to erect the fence came in late August or early September. The fence between Iraq and Saudi Arabia is not the first border fence Saudi Arabia has had to erect.
Yup! Egypt and Pakistan are bad, but when looking at top to bottom participation in terrorist activities, including volunteers and financing, the Saudis seem to hold the top spot all alone.
When we ultimately withdraw from Iraq, we can only imagine where Saudi Terrorists will devote their time and energy.
The Saudis have just realized that if the Dems force a pullout from Iraq, the Shiites will make short work of the Saudi's Sunni brethern, and align themselves with Iran.
The Sunni jihadis may soon look back longingly for the days of the American "occupation".
A fence? But the Saudi militants are just doing the jobs the Iraqi militants won't do.
And saudi arabia finances world terrorism.
If the "royal house of saud" were destroyed with all its little f-ing prince boys I'd love it.
I was going to say the same thing. It's hard when the monster you created returns to gobble you up. Poor Little Saudis.
Our Master speaks. Nice for them to be using the blood of our sons and daughers instead of their own. </sarcastic bitterness>
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