U.S. Says Saudis Refuse To Freeze Bin Laden Assets

Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | October 11, 2001 | Unknown

[GreatOne]

Saudi Arabia has so far refused to freeze the assets of Osama bin Laden and his associates, and has proved unwilling to cooperate fully in the investigation of the hijacking suspects in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Help Freep the Dem. Senate leaders, they took the energy bill out of committee and off the floor. These "leaders" still don't understand our need for energy independence.

[mikhailovich]

The time is now for harsh action against Saudi Arabia. We protected them in the Gulf War from Iraq. We helped build them a state-of-the-art military command base, spending millions of American dollars in the process. They will not allow us to launch or deploy within their borders. The will not allow the use of their (our) command center. They don't welcome Blair. They won't freeze Bin Loitering's assets. They fly their coward monarch asses to the Alps when this all goes down. "F"-em.

[OKCSubmariner]

If the Saudi's are not for our fight against terrorsm they will be against us by blocking our efforts or worse. We had better watch our backside. The repression of Christians in Saudi Arabia has jumped since 9/11/2001.The above statements also apply to Egypt and Mubarak.

[Jefferson Adams]

Okeedokee. We could use an American colony in the Middle East, especially one with so much oil. No problem, Saudi Arabia. If you're not for us, you're against us. So much for our Arab "allies," eh?

[NixNatAVanG InDaBurgh]

They are not week-kneed, they are opposing us.

They are not opposing *us* since I don't hardly consider you one of US. All of your sympathies have been with the terrorists and you have made certain that everyone knows it with every word you post. These grossly pampered and overblown dictators seem to have your admiration, eh, deuce? Chickensh*t, 2-bit dictators have caught your fancy. Yesterday you wanted to be caving with Bin laid-once...maybe. Your kind of valor, alright.
Weak kneed they are and weak kneed they will remain because the only thing that saves their butts is the Kaaba. Now we both know it is shattered and literally turning to dust as we speak. So that can't stay hidden forever, can it? Who might you suspect will get the blame when all that's left is a pile of rock dust to represent their Major Thom? What good do you think their oil will do them then, big boy? Berkley. Bah.

[afz400]

One major problem is that we have made the Saudis too rich to want to ever want to work. They would rather party in Switzerland and get the Palestinians to do the menial jobs. They have to placate the Palestinians by supporting Bin Laden. Basic problem is overpopulation in the Muslim world. Lots of people are going to die from war and starvation in that part of the world in the next 50 years, and there's not much we can do about it, I'm afraid.

[Cachelot]

In the calculation of war

In the calculation of war.. a comparatively minute amount of PU can burn an enormous amount of trash :)).

[RightWhale]

Can this country get by without Mideast oil?

Yes, but Europe and Japan would be in a bind.

[Redbob]

"I believe we are still making our list. The Saudis have a choice of whether they want to be on it or not."
And they probably feel we have a choice as to whether we want to continue buying their oil - or not!

[shezza]

Of course, the only reason they oppose us at all is our support of Israeli ethnic cleansing and racism. We have supported such things before. They should be more careful, but perhaps, so should we.

Uh huh...right.

[SpottedBeaver]

In that case, we have been long overdue for reevaluation of our energy policy.

[angkor]

Disinfo so that the Islamic nutballs won't have any palpable reason to go after the House Of Saud in the next 4 weeks.

There is a huge amount of disinfo (necessarily) being propagated right now.

Think outside the box, e.g., why would it be necessary for WH insiders to say such a thing at this moment in time.

[angkor]

Just to be clearer on the disinfo re Saudi.

Bin Laden has as his #1 target (after us) the House Of Saud.

So it is in all of our immediate interests for them to deny us air space (wink wink), deny us air bases or support (wink wink), to have no ability to freeze bin Laden assets (uh huh), and to provide no intelligence support (right).

Since 9/11, Saudi and the WH have publicly done everything possible to present the House Of Saud as a virtual abettor to Osama.

Do you suppose that's truly the case?

[mikhailovich]

full a cocka.....WE, the United States helped them finance, design, and drive nails in that bad boy. Do YOUR research, pal.