[GaryMontana]

Imange that the the Saudi Royal Family, Muslim youth, International Islamic Relief Organization and others are giving money to bin-Laden to kill Americans.

Justice dictates that we do onto them what they have done to US.

Time to seize Saudi Arabian oil fields to pay for the 9/11 disaster, along with making sure we don't need to open Anwar for oil. Seize military facilities, and nationalize all Saudi assets.

[July 4th]

We're about the start the second wave. The Saudis need to be on the list. Let's rid the world of this plague, and do it by cutting off its head - the money.

[madrastex]

Wonder how the talks with the Saudi official are going to be like when he gets down to Crawford?Love to be fly on the wall!

[Arthur McGowan]

About one-sixth of the world's population is the victim of a mass delusion, Islam. Not all of them are dangerous, but virtually all of them who exercise power, political or financial, are.

[hoosierboy]

I am sure our intelligence had known this for months if this is just now coming out. I just wonder if this was brought up at the meeting we had with the saudis we had a few weeks ago. I mean what the h*ll are we waiting for. If true, I think we have the smoking gun. Now lets just see if we act upon it.

[river rat]

The House of Saud is the diseased old whore that suckles and sustains radical/militant Islam... Wahhabism

The treacherous two faced lying bitch has earned our hatred, and deserves to feel the wrath of a brutal American vengeance. Semper Fi

[Thane_Banquo]

"Protection money."

Riiiiiight. Is that the Saudi word for block grants?

[Ciexyz]

Let the details come out.

[Kermit]

Partition Saudi Arabia.

We could use cheap oil to jump start the economy and then the Euroweenies would shut up, because their constituents would be happy.

[Mr. Mojo]

Gee, what a surprise --- The origin of al-Qaeda dollars is the wallet of the U.S. taxpayer. We buy oil from Islamo-terrorist financiers (The House of Saud), they in turn use that money to pay off our Islamo-terrorist enemies, and our enemies use that money to kill us.

[Brian Mosely]

Hmm...here we have this revelation about the funds...and Gertz is appearing on ABC's This Week tomorrow to say who knows what. Things could get quite interesting.

[Brimack34]

I heard the Saudis had about 600 billion dollars in the U.S.
Is that why we do not go after them?

[gPal]

i have consistently spoken against war...although this piece is possibly propaganda...i feel that there is enuf truth available to us that i am finally convinced that war with iraq is a necessity...i would just like to see President Bush wait until the draft has been in place long enuf to be sure that we have more than enuf troops trained to go ahead and take SA as well as iran...we don't appear to have a choice...by the by...what the hell is wrong with colin powell...he must get on board or go ahead and resign...or the president should fire him...should we take SA and their oil fiedlds first and then take out hussein? a case could be made...

[Mitchell]

In addition, the Saudis agreed to supply oil and financial assistance to both the Taliban and Pakistan which, the documents report, was worth "several hundred millions" of dollars.
...
A further meeting in the Afghan city of Kandahar in July 1998 led to the deal between Saudi Arabia and the Taliban.
According to the documents, those present included Prince Turki al-Faisal al-Saud, then chief of the Istakhbarat, Taliban leaders, senior officers from Pakistan's secret service and bin- Laden.

If Pakistan (or the ISI) took protection money (plus sanctuary for al-Qaeda members) in exchange for a promise of no attacks, that's very telling. We keep getting hints about Pakistan's role in the events of last Fall.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Don't american companies do this with Jessie Jackson's organization...that is, pay him protection money for not filing frivolous law suits against them in federal courts?

Terrorist activity of this kind is nothing new.... protection scams are really old hat, just ask jessie.

[Cold Heat]

What is curious to me, is that this story surfaced many months ago. Why is it getting so much attention now?

I suppose it is because at the time it surfaced, we were inundated with news. I really don't know.

I have been attenpting to find it, but no luck yet.

[wretchard]

The ghastly striptease continues. Despite the best liberal efforts, the world will not go back to where it was before September 11, 2001. If will not even go back to when negotiations with Yasser Arafat constituted the sacrosanct road to peace.

Time is not on the side of the Left. Whatever damage the delay in assaulting Iraq may cause President Bush personally, it is as nothing to the pounding the Islam has been taking in world eyes. The world is now aware of the existence of two camps: Islam and the victims of militant Islam. Russians, Israelis and Hindus have found a kinship they never knew before to place against the dark brotherhood creeping against them.

Suicide bombings, stonings, poison gas and biological weapons, beheadings, gang rape, fatwas, Scuds, disfigurement by acid, throat slittings -- how our vocabulary has been enriched! in ways beyond the capacity of the BBC to suppress.

A genie is haunting all of Europe, the genie of militant Islam. Osama bin Laden is his face; and Saudi Arabia is his pocket. Keep it coming boys, we hardly knew ye.

[eclectic]

The multi-trillion dollar lawsuit against terrorists and their sponsors should be amended an turned into a class action on behalf of ALL American citizens and permanent residents. The injury, moral and physical, to ALL Americans is obvious.

Assets of Saudi princes, charities and banks should be confiscated and redistributed equally to ALL Americans in compensation of damages.

Saudi oil fields should be seized and put under American control as punishment and to prevent further sponsoring of terrorism

[hawaiian]

SAUDI ARABIA IS ENEMY #1

[MissAmericanPie]

Protection money? ROFLOL, yeah right. That would be soooo much easier to believe if their state controlled media didn't call for the destruction of the USofA every five minutes and our base was open for use with Saudi blessings.

They are Mideast con artists, that think they are masters of Mideast intrigue. Telling Bush he can't continue with his War on Terror, or use our base in Saudi, unless and until he personally settles the Israel/Palestinian issue, what a crock. Wipe out Saudi Arabia, and 70% of terrorsim world wide will vanish over night. Not to mention the U.N. chairman having to scrambling to find another sugar daddy to buy his suits.

[A CA Guy]

I think it's a big excuse used to finance radicals.

They are attempting to claim victum status in adition to helping finance it and have everybody feel sory for them.

I would start saying to the world community how surprised we were that the Saudi's were such cowards!!!

We should also expect twice as much of those hundreds of millions to finance anti-terror. NOW in one lump sum please!