America's friend, Sheik Saleh Al Luhaidan
Posted on 04/28/2005 10:22:34 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker
More evidence of Saudi doubletalk?
Judge caught on tape encouraging Saudis to fight in Iraq
By Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit
Updated: 7:28 p.m. ET April 26, 2005
WASHINGTON - Sheik Saleh Al Luhaidan, seen in video seated to the right of the crown prince, is chief justice of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Judicial Council. His sermons and words carry great significance.
In an audiotape secretly recorded at a government mosque last October and obtained by NBC News, Luhaidan encourages young Saudis to go to Iraq to wage war against Americans.
"If someone knows that he is capable of entering Iraq in order to join the fight, and if his intention is to raise up the word of God, then he is free to do so," says Luhaidan in Arabic on the tape.
He warns Iraq is risky because "evil satellites and drone aircraft" watch the borders. But he says going is religiously permissible.
"The lawfulness of his action is in fighting an enemy who is fighting Muslims and came for war," says Luhaidan.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Time to "Iraq" Saudi Arabia. Either that or nuke Mecca.
What are we going to do? We need oil. Why haven't alternatives been found yet? Years of research, all I've heard is that solar energy is the future? Why hasn't that worked? And you have the leftists complaining about drilling in Alaska.
I say we walk in and take it. We should have a long time ago.
American and British investment made the Saudi oil industry what it is today. Without our help, the Saudi royal family would still be living in tents and riding camels.
These people are NOT our friends; to pretend otherwise is short-sighted.
Lisa Meyers.
But the President was just holding hands with Abdullah. And what about Bandar Bush? This is very very surprising. NOT
Like we don't have judges that say and do outrageous things in the U.S. We need to stop the Saudi bashing. Yes there are people in Saudi Arabia who are completely wacked out religious fanatics. Yes the Saudi government had a hand in the creation of the kind of religious fanaticism that fuels Al Qaeda. But they have really worked to correct their mistakes and to try to reverse some of the policies and rhetoric that feeds into terrorism. I would point out to you that Saudi Arabia has killed or captured more Al Qaeda than any other nation on earth, the US included. Certainly they've done more than France and Germany to combat terrorism. They sure don't release Al Qaeda suspects on technicalities like the German idiots do. Funny MSNBC didn't report on the German judge who let an Al Qaeda ringleader walk.
Want to antagonize the Saudis and turn them into adversaries? Hope you're prepared for $4 a gallon oil and a US economy that goes permanently into the toilet as a result. We have the Saudis to thank that the oil situation isn't worse. They've done their level best to try to stabilize oil supplies, prices and thus the US economy. Like it or not, the economy of the West is dependent on Saudi goodwill.
Don't give in to the popular media mindset of wanting to bash the Saudis just because the media thinks in its sick little head it's another avenue of attack against Bush. Let's see if MSNBC-DNC bothers to do a follow up report on any action taken against this judge to discipline him for his ridiculous remarks.
Isn't that what Operation Iraqi Liberation Freedom was all about?
Where is that picture of Bush kissing Abdullah Al-Saud...
We may have invaded the wrong coutnry...
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Vast 'oil' reserves in Utah may tempt feds to help out
By Jerry Spangler
Deseret Morning News
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600125803,00.html
As Rush says "Follow the money"
Where ever that trail may lead...regardless of who if might lead to
Country before all political idols and other figures
America first before all others
imo
Why is it surprising? It's timed just right to embarass the president, who played host to his Saudi friends the other day. Goes with the idea that the Bush family is soft on Saudis.
Dang, Huck, you might really be on to something, there.
Dang, Huck, you might really be on to something, there.
Hel-lo... He's not just a 'judge'. He's the equivilent to a US Supreme Court Justice. And he said this while the crown prince was sitting next to him during a meeting of the Supreme Judicial Council which is the same as our Supreme Court.
We need to stop the Saudi bashing.
So, telling the truth about what would be the Saudi equivilent to a US Supreme Court Justice, calling for Saudi citizens to go fight US soldiers in Iraq is now bashing?
Yes the Saudi government had a hand in the creation of the kind of religious fanaticism that fuels Al Qaeda.
Aren't you bashing them by speaking the truth?
Want to antagonize the Saudis and turn them into adversaries? Hope you're prepared for $4 a gallon oil and a US economy that goes permanently into the toilet as a result.
It seems to me that it's the Saudis who are doing the antagonizing, but that's just me.
Plain enough for any idiot to see.
This is about 55 years supply for the U.S. at the current consumption rate. If Canada can extract it profitably, surly we can too. I get the feeling that inertia or complacency has gripped American industry ... maybe because they are afraid to invest in any activity the environmentalists might oppose, knowing that our politicians will knuckle under to any interest group they feel might threaten their reelection.
We didn't go into Iraq for oil.
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