Posted on 08/07/2005 11:05:55 AM PDT by rang1995
'Yes, there were calls from the London bomb suspects to Saudi Arabia, but to describe my country as the crucible of terror is insulting' By Andrew Alderson (Filed: 07/08/2005)
When Prince Turki al-Faisal was app-ointed as Saudi Arabia's ambassador to London, he must have thought that his 24-year watch on some of the world's most deadly terrorists had finally come to an end.
The quietly spoken diplomat, who is the nephew of the late King Fahd and the new King Adbullah, was head of his kingdom's intelligence service from 1977 to 2001 and, as such, was responsible for trying to bring Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born head of al-Qaeda, to justice.
Now nearing the end of his two-and-a-half-year posting, Prince Turki finds he has swapped the bombs of Riyadh for those detonated by Muslim extremists on and below the streets of London. As the French say: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (the more things change, the more they stay the same).
So as Prince Turki sits with his hands clasped in front of him in his spacious first-floor office at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Mayfair, few men in the world are better equipped to provide an insight into the terrorist atrocities in London that last month left 56 dead and more than 700 injured.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
oh with all the denials british secret service has the recorded calls from S.A.
In the course of an exchange of information between the kingdom and the UK, there were reports passed on to your authorities several months ago [in April/May] in general terms of a heightened expectancy of attacks on London," he says.
"This information came in the form of statements made under interrogation from terrorists who had been arrested in the kingdom and other places. As is normal practice, this information was immediately passed on in Riyadh, where there is close co-operation between your security forces and our security forces."
This talking snake seems to be a rather helpful serpent to have lying about in the garden. Eats the rats.
turkey is the problem.its time to make his stay in the U S as miserable as possible.
Why do we even allow a Saudi embassy in the US? I vote to close it, and to tell the Saudis they can reopen it after they've solved their Wahhabi problem to our satisfaction. And while we're at it, let's expel CAIR and every other organization that supports islamofacism from our country.
What a coincidence!
If only I could be assured that those really in power in SA really were our ally instead of snickeringly humoring us. Everything I see coming out of there is Not Good. With friends like these...?
I say we should build lots of nuclear plants, fire up every roof with solar, conserve AND drill like crazy, force Mexico to give us oil for all the illegals we have to deal with, then tell the entire Middle East to kiss our @ss. Take your precious oil and shove it.
Then bomb the entire area into glass. Either that, or how about dumping Ecstasy into the water supply??? I'm so sick of that part of the world. It's like they're all on crazy pills!! Enough!!! Jeez!
LOL!
Don't be so quick to judge. I'm usually pretty intuitive, but I have t admit, I'm having a terrible time figuring out which Saudi is which. I'm usually pretty intuitive, I can look at someone and get that "Bad" or "Good" signal. But with the Saudis, I get nothing either way. And yes, there are good Saudis, I just wish I could figure out which ones they are.
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ugh!!!!!!
if these arab countries didn't have OIL ask yourself would they still be existing,would the world put up with their crap--No except for oil they are ZERO's
That's enough.
Oil = energy = economic dependence. Gotta have it.
Adds up to a lot more than zero, for them, for us, and for the rest of the world.
So yeah, as long as they have what we need, we'll cut them some slack.
We provide aid and comfort to an obvious enemy because they have a natural resource we desperately need. And boy, do they know it.
Bush needs to remember he's working for US and not his SA business buddies. We can all make money AND become self-sufficient by moving away from oil into nuclear, solar, wind, geo, and by soaking those who OWE us (Mexico!) for the oil in exchange for their illegal emigrants, and by-- yes!-- conserving (hello! We did that in WWII, same patriotic motivation!).
Why doesn't Bush move more into strategies that would cut off these maniacs instead of holding their treacherous hands? He could do it. He's doing some token stuff in the energy bill, but nothing substantial.
What can we do? The American people WANT to be taken off Middle East dependence, just as they want secure borders. Bush needs to listen to us!
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