Posted on 09/30/2005 1:25:34 PM PDT by Sabramerican
US State Dept. delays action against Saudi Arabia Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 30, 2005
The United States is delaying considering punishing Saudi Arabia a year after censuring the Arab kingdom for "particularly severe violations" of religious freedom.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice notified Congress last week that she had authorized a 180-day waiver of action "in order to allow additional time for the continuation of discussions leading to progress on important religious freedom issues."
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, a federal agency established by Congress in 1998 to promote religious freedom around the world, disclosed Rice's action on Friday.
A State Department spokesman, Kurtis Cooper, called the waiver a temporary measure that "allows us to continue discussions leading to progress on important religious freedom issues."
Rice raised the issue last week in a meeting in Washington with the Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, and stressed the importance of continuing to work on this issue, Cooper said.
Last week, the department notified Congress that Rice had banned commercial export of certain defense articles to Eritrea, an African country cited a year ago along with Saudi Arabia and Vietnam as having records on religious freedom of serious concern.
It was the first time sanctions were applied to any country under US religious freedom law.
The "royals" would go from being jumped-up camel herders to plain old ordinary camel herders again, and funds for terrorists, terrorist front groups and charities, and Wahabi madrassas and mosques all around the world would dry up quickly.
Patricia Roush was the main one. Bill O'Blowhard's treatment of her, her daughters, and William McGurn of the Wall Street Journal who was following the story and Dan Burton's committee hearings was the thing that caused me to stop watching his show or paying any attention to him whatsoever. The man is slime.
I'll bet we would be "shocked", to see who these checks are written to....
Shocked, Shocked I tell you....
Semper Fi
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