TERROR IN THE SAUDI $EA

New York Post ^ | 12/02/02 | JIM HOAGLAND

[kattracks]

CASH handouts are a way of life, and a way of survival, for Saudi Arabia's otherwise rapacious royals. Paying protection money is how they make problems disappear. Or at least travel to someone else's doorstep.

Osama bin Laden is only the most horrible example of this time-honored Saudi practice going awry. His family and his nation were happy to see bin Laden spending smallish chunks of the family fortune in Sudan, Pakistan and Afghanistan on his gruesome hobbies. It kept him from lining up the royal family - or his own extended, estranged family - in his gun sights.

[Cindy]

LINKS OF INTEREST:

ALBAWABA.com - The Middle East Gateway: "SAUDI ARABIA STOPS MONEY TRANSFERS TO RELATIVES OF PALESTINIAN SUICIDE BOMBERS" (December 2, 2002)

OICexchange.com ("Source: HI/OB/IINA"): Jeddah, Ramadhan. "YEMEN PAYS UP US$ 1.5 MILLION TO AQSA FUND" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Oman is also said to have paid in a sum of US$ 3,000,000, while Saudi Arabia has paid US$ 21,000,000.") (December 2, 2002)

TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "NEW SAUDI AMBASSADOR SUMMONSED OVER SEPTEMBER 11" by David Wastell (ARTICLE NOTE: Apparently the new Saudi Ambassador will be Prince Turki al Faisal.) (120102)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE): "SAUDI'S ADDRESS LINKED TO TERROR" (112502)

FOX NEWS.com: "SENATORS URGE PROBE OF ALLEGED LINK OF SAUDI ROYAL FAMILY TO 9-11" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The FBI is investigating financial records indicating that Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi ambassador, wrote monthly checks that ultimately went into the accounts of Omar al-Bayoumi and Osama Basnan. Two hijackers of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon may have gotten money from those men while the terrorists were living in the United States.") (112402)

A VERY INTERESTING DISCUSSION ON FREEREPUBLIC.com (April 1, 2002)

stepping back in time...AIM.org - ACCURACY IN MEDIA - Media Monitor: "THE SAUDI ROLE IN TERROR" by Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid" (October 19, 2001)

FOX NEWS.com:"STATEMENT ATTRIBUTED TO AL QAEDA WARNS OF MORE ATTACKS ON NEW YORK, WASHINGTON" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A statement attributed to Al Qaeda threatened more attacks in New York and Washington unless America stops supporting Israel and converts to Islam, an Arab TV reporter who received the unsigned document said Saturday.")(111602)

stepping back in time...SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: ATTACK ON AMERICA!

SAUDI EMBASSY.net: SAUDI ARABIA - Press Releases (includes archives)

[Robert357]

What I want to know is who in Saudia A, did the German Terrorist cell call. Since the German intellegence agency knows the answer to that question and is not telling the media, I suspect that the answer is some members of the royal family or high moslem religious figures. I further suspect that others within the intellegence community know the answer and that may be why a story was circulated that the Bush Administration has given the Saudi royal family 90-days to clean up their act.

It is nice to see a newspaper article that has some spine embedded within it on calling corruption and terrorism to the attension of the public.