New York Times
OCT. 11, 2001
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said today that New York City would not accept a $10 million charitable donation from a wealthy prince from Saudi Arabia who criticized the American government's policies in the Middle East.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud was one of many foreign visitors who have gone with the mayor to ground zero at the destroyed World Trade Center since the terrorist attacks last month. The prince, who is also the chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company, attended a memorial service at the site today, where he handed the mayor a check for $10 million for the Twin Towers Fund, one of various charity funds set up to benefit survivors of the attack.
Did that looney tune whack job Cynthia McKinney contact the prince and ask him for the money when Rudi turned it down?
Note that Prince Alwaleed has had an apparent falling out of favor.
One major reason was that his strategy to decimate the US Fracking Industry failed as the US has become a net exporter of oil.
Throughout this decade, Prince Alwaleed led OPEC to keep their production high resulting in collapsing prices. He had hoped that collapsing oil prices would cause the nascent US Fracking drillers to go out of business, and they indeed suffered but found ways to stay in business. Now that the US is a net oil exporter, Alwaleed’s leadership is considered a failure.
Note that the Bakken region alone has more than 10 X the proven oil reserves of all of Saudi Arabia.
LUCYt
“Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said today that New York City would not accept a $10 million charitable donation from a wealthy prince from Saudi Arabia who criticized the American government’s policies in the Middle East.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud was one of many foreign visitors who have gone with the mayor to ground zero at the destroyed World Trade Center since the terrorist attacks last month. The prince, who is also the chairman of the Kingdom Holding Company, attended a memorial service at the site today, where he handed the mayor a check for $10 million for the Twin Towers Fund, one of various charity funds set up to benefit survivors of the attack. “
RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!!
Thanks Lucy bit of interesting stuff for sure, keep me informed.
All thus an Trump went to Hawaii yesterday, they is a judge down there that keeps holding some part of the travel ban and maybe he can find that birth certificate...