Posted on 01/06/2005 5:37:37 AM PST by SJackson
On Dec. 21, a terrorist blew himself up in the U.S. military mess hall in Mosul, in northern Iraq. Twenty-two people were killed, including U.S. soldiers and contractors.
And now comes big news: The perpetrator was the oldest son of a diplomat from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, our alleged ally in the War on Terror.
On Monday, the Saudi-owned daily Asharq Al-Awsat identified the butcher responsible: 20-year old Ahmad Sayyid Ahmad al-Ghamdi, a Saudi medical student.
The bomber acted as a member of Ansar al-Sunnah (Volunteers of Sunni Islam), one of the most violent terror groups in Iraq, and an al Qaeda ally.
The name "al-Ghamdi" should ring bells; the family is large, and three of its members were involved in the 9/11 assault.
The Saudi daily, and Western media, identified the Mosul bomber, and even said they had spoken with his father. But no one has mentioned who the father is: Sayyid al-Ghamdi, former head of the Saudi diplomatic mission in Sudan, a country ruled by an Islamist regime that once played host to Osama bin Laden himself.
The diplomat has been named by the Saudi Institute, a Washington-based human-rights monitoring group with unimpeachable sources inside the kingdom. (The information office of the Royal Saudi Embassy in Washington did not respond to a call yesterday for comment.)
The bomber's father told journalists his son had stayed in Sudan after the diplomat returned to Riyadh. But the son then cleaned out his personal bank account and told his father he was headed for Iraq to kill Americans.
Arab-language media, including Saudi newspapers and Web sites, have disclosed that Saudi subjects make up the overwhelming majority of the "foreign fighters" involved in suicide terrorism in Iraq, from Fallujah to Baghdad, and from Mosul to Basra.
But Ali al-Ahmed of the Saudi Institute, and other Saudi dissidents, complain that U.S. authorities have failed to compel the Saudis to shut off the flow of jihadists northward.
Instead, 26 prominent Saudi clerics, most of them paid by the regime, signed a fatwa on Nov. 5 calling for continued jihad against the United States and the new military and police structures in Iraq.
None of the signatories — all of them adherents of Wahhabism, the official Islamic sect in Saudi Arabia — has been questioned or suspended from religious duties since the fatwa was issued.
In addition, the terrorist responsible for a Christmas Eve fuel-truck bombing in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad, which killed nine people, has been identified as a Saudi subject, 23-year-old Ahmad Abdallah Abd al-Rahman al-Shayea, of Riyadh.
And so the deception continues.
The bottom line remains the same as it was on Sept. 11: President Bush has to call the Saudis to account for their financing of the Wahhabis and their terrorism.
The more things change...
A suicidal medical student from Saudi....tsk, tsk.
"... the deception continues. The bottom line remains the same as it was on Sept. 11: President Bush has to call the Saudis to account for their financing of the Wahhabis and their terrorism."
Right. But I seriously doubt that Bush will call the Saudis to account. They might get a tap on the wrist, but that'll be it. Bush and Company are too fired up about this latest "roadmap" for "peace" jawboning we've heard since the election (i.e., Israel is strong-armed into giving up land and having even more insecure borders, while the enemies of Israel and the US say that maybe they might decide to be good boys and girls for a little while).
Another nail in the coffin of the "poverty causes terrorism" argument.
"......The name "al-Ghamdi" should ring bells; the family is large, and three of its members were involved in the 9/11 assault......."
In another, less politically correct era, the extended al-Ghamdi family members may have started dropping like flies from food poisoning, broken necks from falling down stairs, accidental falls from 20th floor balconies, and sudden heart attacks.
That nonsense was pretty much debunked as soon as it became an integral part of every speech Bill Clinton made on the lecture circuit after 9/11.
The reality is that poverty is NOT a "cause" of terrorism at all. In fact, it's usually the opposite (as the case of the Mosul suicide bomber shows). The typical radical Muslim terrorist is remarkably similar to a radical American like Lori Berensen, the New York City woman who is serving a life sentence in a Peruvian prison for her support of revolutionary Marxist rebels in that country. These people tend to be pampered, overgrown infants from wealthy families whose lives are so devoid of any meaning that they feel a pathological need to adopt these idiotic religious/political causes just to help them feel relevant in some way.
What it all comes down to is that the root cause of terrorism is actually boredom.
In the United States, we deal with this problem of bored, pampered people by electing then to office as Democrats (and sometimes even as Republicans).
Saudi is now, and long has been, our enemy. Let there be no mistake.
One of the most distrubing things about mosques in the United States is that most of them owe their existence to heavy Saudi subsidies, subsidies provided by Whabists. Hence, the vast majority of such entities need to be viewed as probable bases for terrorism.
FYI
The Saudis are dancing on a very fine wire. Eventually it will explode in their face.
Hence the saying "Idle hands are the devil's workshop"
The best response to these animals is to inform the Saudis that continued support of their scum will lead to the obliteration of Mecca and environs. The sooner we do this, the sooner these perverts will find their virgins.
Saudi Arabia is a fiendly country. There is only one thing they would understand.
"Saudi should be on the list of terrorist havens. Saudi is now, and long has been, our enemy. Let there be no mistake."
Right on! I couldn't have put it better. Everyone seems to have forgotten the 1973-74 oil blackmail that contributed greatly to several years of economic chaos in the US and Western Europe.
chief of state: King and Prime Minister FAHD bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (since 13 June 1982, but largely incapacitated since late 1995); Crown Prince and First Deputy Prime Minister ABDALLAH bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud since 13 June 1982, also Saudi Arabian National Guard Commander since 1963 and de facto ruler since early 1996; note - the monarch is both the chief of state and head of governmenthead of government: King and Prime Minister FAHD bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (since 13 June 1982, but largely incapacitated since late 1995); Crown Prince and First Deputy Prime Minister ABDALLAH bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud since 13 June 1982, also Saudi Arabian National Guard Commander since 1963 and de facto ruler since early 1996; note - the monarch is both the chief of state and head of government
cabinet: Council of Ministers is appointed by the monarch and includes many royal family members elections: none; the monarch is hereditary
While they play footsie with the west, they know their bread is buttered on the Islamic (caliphate-style) monarchy side.
They need to throw us a bone every now and then, and they do. But a caliph is supposed to be double-dealing with unbelievers; and especially powerful unbelievers.
"Purposefully misrepresenting events to strenghten the terrorists hand", Well put.A lot of those "journalists" are American citizens. I'll go one step further and call it outright treason. Their dishonest reporting encourages the terrorists/thugs who are underminig our efforts in Iraq.
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