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Saudi Arabia Frees 1,500 'Sorry' Al Qaeda Terrorists
Fox News ^ | John Gibson

Posted on 11/28/2007 10:27:05 AM PST by STARWISE

JOHN GIBSON, CO-HOST: It is the big outrage. Fifteen hundred terrorists are on the loose after Saudi Arabia sets them free. The United States just gave the kingdom big props for taking part in today's high-stakes summit to broker a peace between neighboring Israelis and Palestinians but the same country that is attempting to make the world a better place has just made the world a more dangerous place.

JAIME COLBY, GUEST CO-HOST: The homeland of Osama bin Laden and 16 of the 9/11 hijackers reportedly releasing more than a thousand terrorists and you will not believe the reason why. "Big Story" correspondent Douglas Kennedy has the stunning details. Douglas, say it ain't so.

DOUGLAS KENNEDY, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. You've heard of drug counseling. These guys got terrorist counseling and now the Saudis say they're ready to rejoin the world. It is a huge number of jailhouse conversions and some experts today are suspicious of Saudi Arabia.

KENNEDY (voice-over): The Saudi Arabian government gave them counseling. Now they say some 1,500 terrorists are reformed.

STEVE POMERANTZ, FORMER FBI ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: My reaction is to be very, very skeptical.

KENNEDY: The Saudi government made the announcement yesterday after releasing the prisoners, all of whom at one point had been members of al Qaeda and had sworn allegiance to Usama bin Laden. Steve Pomerantz is the former chief of counterterrorism for the FBI and he calls the jailhouse conversions dubious.

POMERANTZ: People who hold this Islamist terrorist philosophy do it out of deeply held beliefs and to believe they can be changed by some superficial counseling is a very questionable concept to hold.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedaterrorists; aq; saudiaarabia; wot
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Unbelievable.
1 posted on 11/28/2007 10:27:08 AM PST by STARWISE
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To: STARWISE

They’re sorry....yeah sorry they didn’t kill more Jews and Americans.


2 posted on 11/28/2007 10:29:15 AM PST by Slapshot68
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To: SE Mom; Laverne; Cindy; nicmarlo; Iowa Granny; JustPiper; Pepper777

Saudi Arabia Releases 1,500 ‘Redeemed’ Prisoners

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=19696

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Saudi Arabia Frees 1,500 al-Qaeda Members

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/276437.aspx


3 posted on 11/28/2007 10:29:33 AM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE

The AQ needs a brigade of reinforcements ... so voila, Saudia Arabia comes through.


5 posted on 11/28/2007 10:30:41 AM PST by MoMagic
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To: STARWISE

Will they also release a ‘sorry’ rape victim???
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931632/posts


6 posted on 11/28/2007 10:31:36 AM PST by DancesWithBolsheviks (Peace through victory.)
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To: STARWISE; Cannoneer No. 4; Grimmy; FreedomPoster

You gotta be freaking kidding me.


7 posted on 11/28/2007 10:32:15 AM PST by StarCMC (http://cannoneerno4.wordpress.com; http://starcmc.wordpress.com/ - The Enemedia is inside the gates.)
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To: STARWISE

It’s time to take the oil price hit and drop this cult of death country from our buddy list.


8 posted on 11/28/2007 10:32:16 AM PST by Slapshot68
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To: STARWISE
What a load of CRAP!! This is un-freakin'-believable! SCREW Saudi Arabia!

Did they give these "sorry" terrorists free bus passage to Iraq while they were at it???

Saudi Arabia is every bit as evil as the Democrats.

9 posted on 11/28/2007 10:32:37 AM PST by Allegra (Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
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To: STARWISE
eh.. its alot easier for our guys to get to them if they're in the open rather than safe in a saudi jail.

10 posted on 11/28/2007 10:33:11 AM PST by absolootezer0 (white male christian hetero married gun toting SUV driving motorcycle riding conservative smoker)
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To: STARWISE

>>Unbelievable.

You keep using that word.. I do not think it means what you think it means.


11 posted on 11/28/2007 10:33:36 AM PST by vikingd00d
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To: STARWISE
From the CBN link (which quotes the NY Sun):
Officials in Saudi Arabia have released more than 1,500 al-Qaeda members from prison, requiring them to refrain from jihad in the Arabian Penisula [sic].
IOW, Saudi Arabia freed them on the condition that they take their business elsewhere.
12 posted on 11/28/2007 10:37:58 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Global Warming Heretic -- http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com)
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There's no place like Scrappleface...there's no place like Scrappleface...

Damn, it's still from FOX.

13 posted on 11/28/2007 10:38:27 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Slapshot68
It’s time to take the oil price hit and drop this cult of death country from our buddy list.

And yet people ridicule Ron Paul when he suggests that our soldiers should not be dying on behalf of corrupt tyrants and thugs.

14 posted on 11/28/2007 10:39:45 AM PST by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Allegra

Yeah !! Make you want to hit the wall, and then they do this:

Saudi Arabia says 208 people arrested in terror sweep

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931751/posts

Guess punishment is only necesssry in SA if it’s for terrorism against them or you’re a woman who’s innocently in the company of a male who’s not her husband or an innocent rape victim.


15 posted on 11/28/2007 10:41:30 AM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: mvpel
And yet people ridicule Ron Paul when he suggests that our soldiers should not be dying on behalf of corrupt tyrants and thugs.

What gave you the idea that our guys are over there on the Saudis' behalf?

16 posted on 11/28/2007 10:42:11 AM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative (Global Warming Heretic -- http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com)
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And we will do .... What? The Saudis have the US family jewels in a lock box. It doesn’t seem to matter if it is a Bush or a Clinton or an Albright or a Rice.


17 posted on 11/28/2007 10:43:52 AM PST by Truth29
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To: mvpel
And yet people ridicule Ron Paul when he suggests that our soldiers should not be dying on behalf of corrupt tyrants and thugs.

I see it as "if we don't do something about the terrorists no one else will". This makes his position even more dangerous.

18 posted on 11/28/2007 10:44:03 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Lancey Howard; Enchante; SoldierDad; gpapa; SandRat; trooprally; Doctor Raoul; kristinn; maica; ...

BTTT


19 posted on 11/28/2007 10:44:22 AM PST by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE
I'm perfectly OK with the Saudis releasing all of these repentant al Qaeda members.

One one condition.

Keep them all in Saudi Arabia and do not permit them to leave its borders.

20 posted on 11/28/2007 10:44:34 AM PST by Allegra (Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
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