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'Saudi King on Iran: Cut off the head of the snake'
jpost.com ^ | Nov. 28, 2010 | JPOST.COM STAFF

Posted on 11/28/2010 12:02:23 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Among the quarter-million documents in the latest WikiLeaks release on Sunday, was a secret diplomatic cable from the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, about a meeting between Saudi King Abullah and US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and US General David Patraeus in April 2008.

According to the leaked document, part of the conversation between King Abdullah and the US officials touched on Saudi attitudes towards Iran, its influence in Iraq and the need to increase pressure on the Islamic Republic.

The cable quotes former Saudi Ambassador to the US Adel al-Jubeir recalling, "the King's frequent exhortations to the US to attack Iran and so put an end to its nuclear weapons program. 'He told you to cut off the head of the snake,' he recalled to the Charge, adding that working with the US to roll back Iranian influence in Iraq is a strategic priority for the King and his government."

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1 posted on 11/28/2010 12:02:25 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
which snake? iran, saudi, or some other snake...
or all of the above?
2 posted on 11/28/2010 12:04:28 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’m sure it is a “priority” of King Abdullah to NOT HAVE IRAN invade his kingdom...but let the infidels do all the fighting...

Suadi Arabia - if you don’t want Iranian influence to grow in the region - then invade them and take care of your own Islamic garbage!

Just like 1991 - why we go in and then get targeted for doing what those worthless Arabs can’t do...pathetic wimps they are...


3 posted on 11/28/2010 12:06:32 PM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So the King that financially supported Obama so that he could attend Harvard University instructs his subject to attack the Kingdom’s mortal enemy. Nice.


4 posted on 11/28/2010 12:06:58 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike (TeaNami)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – State Department documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks provided candid views of foreign leaders and sensitive information on terrorism and nuclear proliferation, the New York Times reported on Sunday.

The documents show Saudi donors remain chief financiers of militant groups like al Qaeda and that Chinese government operatives have waged a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage targeting the United States and its allies, according to a review of the WikiLeaks documents published in the Times.

5 posted on 11/28/2010 12:10:26 PM PST by gitmogrunt (WTF?)
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To: no-to-illegals

REMEMBER, the major enemy we face is Wahabis. They give you the madrassas and Jihadist mosques everywhere in the world. They are all populated and financed directly from Saudi Arabia.


6 posted on 11/28/2010 12:10:53 PM PST by BillM (Don)
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To: BillM

ditto


7 posted on 11/28/2010 12:13:37 PM PST by no-to-illegals (Please God, Bless and Protect Our Men and Women in Uniform)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Iran will get the bomb. The next thing they will do is build a second and a third. What the Persians do next is the key. Will they just sit on their new found WMD or forard a nuke to one of their front groups for immediate detonation?


8 posted on 11/28/2010 12:18:28 PM PST by VRW Conspirator (The greatest deterrent to liberalism is sunlight.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So, turn Mecca onto a smoking crater?


9 posted on 11/28/2010 12:23:51 PM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison: When American diplomats pressed other countries to resettle detainees, they became reluctant players in a State Department version of “Let’s Make a Deal.” Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in Chinese Muslim detainees, cables from diplomats recounted. The Americans, meanwhile, suggested that accepting more prisoners would be “a low-cost way for Belgium to attain prominence in Europe.”


10 posted on 11/28/2010 12:25:26 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Jet Jaguar

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?_r=1&hp


11 posted on 11/28/2010 12:25:53 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (*)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How long untill Antiwar or Alex Jones claims Wikileaks is IDF?


12 posted on 11/28/2010 12:36:30 PM PST by NoLibZone (Homosexuals oppose diversity.)
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To: no-to-illegals
which snake? iran, saudi, or some other snake... or all of the above?

Pretty sure the snake is Islam

13 posted on 11/28/2010 12:38:45 PM PST by camerongood210
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“the King’s frequent exhortations to the US to attack Iran and so put an end to its nuclear weapons program.”

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First Saudis destroy the WTC on 9/11/10, then finance the building of mosques in the US and now demand that the US protect it against Iran.

And all we can do is bow before their king? I forgot, they are our friends.


14 posted on 11/28/2010 12:39:25 PM PST by 353FMG (In the end, it will be either ISLAM or America -- it can never be both. Choose NOW!)
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To: BCW
Suadi Arabia - if you don’t want Iranian influence to grow in the region - then invade them and take care of your own Islamic garbage!

Good point.

15 posted on 11/28/2010 12:40:32 PM PST by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
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To: BCW

The Saudis are taking care of their problems. They have a military. They just let us pretend they belong to us.

How many wars have we fought for our interests vs. Saudi interests. Hell the Saudis attacked us on 911 and who did we attack? Afghanistan.


16 posted on 11/28/2010 12:45:42 PM PST by Lil Flower (Confucius says: Wise man never play leap frog with unicorn.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The muslim supremacist, antisemitic, Christian hating perverts of the pseudo nation called Saudi Arabia should defend themselves. Maybe all of the money they’re sending around world for mosque construction and buying political leaders could better be applied to their own defense. America must not get tangled up in a muslim vs. muslim fight.


17 posted on 11/28/2010 12:47:07 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Cut off the head of the snake” is sound advice, even if it comes from Snake #2.


18 posted on 11/28/2010 1:08:30 PM PST by omega4412
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The contest within Islam, between the corrupt Saudis with their Wahabi fundamentalists and the Mullahs in Iran is not a race that the West has any stake in, one way or another. I say, let them have at it.


19 posted on 11/28/2010 1:13:40 PM PST by Wuli
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To: VRW Conspirator

Probably why it would not be a good idea to base all our troops on obe site. I think these crazy bastards would willingly nuke the US a neighbor or our troops in Afghanistan.


20 posted on 11/28/2010 1:18:16 PM PST by Americanexpat
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