Saudi prince killed in Al Qaeda ambush: reports

Hi Pakistan ^ | November 30, 2003 | AFP

[aculeus]

Didn't notice this reported previously.

[hellinahandcart]

"Hi, Pakistan!" (waving)

[hellinahandcart]

No, really, how many dead Saudi princes does this make?

[Salvey]

Ah, the chickens are....(you know the rest)

[dighton]

They must be down to their last eight thousand or so.

[Nonstatist]

How many dead Saudi princes does it take to change a light bulb?

[ClearCase_guy]

Saudi princes die when the House of Saud needs to clean it's house. Hard to say if this guy's ties to al-Quaeda were too close, or not close enough.

[dep]

Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat

i don't care about saudi princes one way or the other, but these guys have a real knack for choosing a name!

[aculeus]

One blogger's sinister explanation (found here: http://regnumcrucis.blogspot.com/).

So the orders came directly from bin Laden, eh? That's definitely significant and could tie into al-Qaeda's pledge after three of their clerics were arrested following the first Riyadh bombings that the royal family would pay if any harm came to them. This could be a delayed fullfillment of that threat or it could be bin Laden providing a stick to sweeten his clerics' recent initiatives (the carrot) to establish some kind of negotiations with the Saudi government that I suspect involve an increase in the amount of money being paid to al-Qaeda through Saudi charities and other fronts in the Magic Kingdom.

[RussianConservative]

One down, 20,000 to go...he probably knew to much and die of dehydration/plane crash/auto crash etc. Saudi cover arse ping!

[blackdog]

When I went to Flight Safety Int'l during the late 70's for pilot training, the place was packed with Saudis who were all royal princes of some sort. They would buy a new car and just abandon it if it got a flat or some minor malfunction. They had hookers 24/7 living in their dormatory. Horrible pilots. No decision making skills and easily sidetracked(which is not a good thing for a pilot to be). They have the distinction of performing the only mid-air collision in the school's history. They managed to mid-air a Falcon 20.

[GulliverSwift]

If this was al Quaida, I wonder how many more royals have to die before the Sauds will stop funding them and promoting extremism.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Nice to see that no skeptical/cynical people frequent FR.

[concerned about politics]

If this was al Quaida, I wonder how many more royals have to die before the Sauds will stop funding them and promoting extremism.

Or they could pull a Democrat and surrender to them. Maybe Al Quata needs more cash, and this is extortion. "Pay, or there will be more".

[evets]

Q: Mr. Secretary, the Saudis said yesterday, "One strike on one Arab country is a strike on all." Rumsfeld: Who said this? Q: A Saudi prince embraced by the Iraqi... Rumsfeld: "A Saudi prince" -- do you know how many Saudi princes there are? (Laughter.)

[Never2baCrat]

So what? A prince here, a prince there........

[justshutupandtakeit]

Yeah, really. It is almost like saying "A Chicagoan said...." as though all Chicagoans believe the same things.

[Indie]

Where is Tarzan when you need him. (violins begin to play softly.)
I know I wouldn't be goin' to any American hating third world country and given' 'em my money to hunt.
Poor prince. Wrong place at right time.

[gridlock]

How many dead Saudi princes does it take to change a light bulb?

They have Philipino man-servants to do that sort of thing...