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To: swarthyguy
Good article on how the house of Saud controls terrorism.
2 posted on
05/30/2002 11:03:14 AM PDT by
weikel
To: swarthyguy
The Saudi role in the peace process would increase to the level of importance that Iran is playing for... So Israel's getting squeezed between two political and ethnic antagonists who are vying for influence over the palestinians.
the largest reason for the Saudi Arabian aid would be a financial one, namely the necessity for preserving tension in the Near East to artificially support prices in the world petroleum market on a background of a general decline in economic activity
Not news, but bears repeating: The Saudi regime is trying to arrest its decline by acquiring territory. This also directs troublesome, volatile elements --the extremists-- outside it's borders, offering an attractive alternative to insurrection. Imperialism as pressure valve.
3 posted on
05/30/2002 11:35:05 AM PDT by
tsomer
To: *Caucasus_list;*TerrorWar;spar
To: belmont_mark
saudi ping.
To: swarthyguy
BUMP
To: swarthyguy
I assume the reason for withdrawing them is that both the US and Russia are putting pressure on Georgia to do something about them. Since Georgia has no intention of confronting them militarily, since I also assume Georgian statesmen have accounts in Saudi banks, they are instead working with the Saudis to relocate them for a while.
Lebanon is still off limits to US forces. Bad memories.
15 posted on
10/03/2002 7:15:12 PM PDT by
marron
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