J'Accuse--Will the Saudis ever be held accountable for their role in 9/11

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | September 11, 2003 | Stephen Schwartz

[AntiGuv]

No.

[ModelBreaker]

Can we really imagine that if 15 out of 19 of the 9/11 murderers had been Cuban agents, even the Hollywood left that adulates Castro would call for a hands-off approach to the Havana regime?

Well, I for one have no difficulty imagining that.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

No

[alloysteel]

I suspect the reprisals on the Saudis will be much more subtle and devastating than any overt military action ever could be. True, we could bomb Riyadh into rubble, nuke Mecca and Medina, and run the House of Saud back into the desert. But with control of Iraq, we may quietly (and single-handedly) undermine OPEC by flooding US markets with lower-priced oil energy, further develop our own energy sources, and break the "Muslim Mafia" that now holds sway throughout the Middle East.

The days of autocratic rule of Arabia by the Saudis are numbered. And they know it.

[Publius6961]

Oh yes.

It's just a matter of when.

The house of Saud will disappear as totally and completely as it existed before it was created for geopolitical purposes.

[SJackson]

If you'd like to be on or off this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

[GOPJ]

The Saud's are a large royal family. Each man has four wives, they have children. Their son's have four wives, and they have children -- with their wives and without their wives. These people, the uncles, the brothers, the children are all competing for the "family money" and power within the family. To understand this ugly mess, think angry relatives at the reading of a will and the division of "Dad's company".

Do we want to topple the part of the family that backs us? If their gone, all the money will go to terrorist. Then again, as long as the Saudi's are feeding money to world terrorism, it will continue to grow. What's the answer?

[stuartcr]

As long as money, politics, and economics are involved...probably not. This is the way the world has been, still is, and probably will be for a long, long time.

[joesnuffy]

CAIR ...aka The Wahhabi Lobby still going strong

The slush funds from Saudi keep on finding their way into US politicans pockets
The media still spinning its web of deceit on Saudi Arabia and their allies

Mosques and Islamic training Centers springing up like weeds accross America

Even the Army Corps of Engineers helps to build Islamic Summer Training Camps in Iowa

The borders still wide open...Mexican trucks startin to roll....Railroad cars still largely uninspected

But they will vacume your shorts for contraband at airport security...even though pilots are still for the most part unarmed after waiting for two years (had pilots been armed we probably wouldnt even have anything to look back at today)

[Cronos]

Don't forget that we are also giving out nearly $5 BILLION in tax dollars to the slamofascist regime in Packistatn

[MEGoody]

The fact that our government is still playing footies with the Sauds is a great disappointment to me. At the same time, I know there is much I do NOT know. There may be very good reasons for what they are doing. Just wish they'd share them.

[philosofy123]

This is the thinking of cowards. Saddam did not plot 9/11, the Saudis did. Saddam did not finance the terrorists, the Saudis did. Saddam did not preach hate of Christians and Jews, the Saudis did. Saddam never dreamed about converting the world to Islam, the Saudis do. Saddam did not hate Christians, the Saudis do.

If our government had the guts to tackel this hateful monster without creating the impression of Christianity invading and killing Islam; we would have been better of. The longer we wait, or ignor taking on that number one enemy the more we appear to be putting our ignorant heads in the sand.

It is very similar of a big guy beating you, and you go and kick his dog, or beat on his little sister. If you really have the guts, go to the big guy, bloody his f--ing nose.

[Spirited]

"The borders still wide open...Mexican trucks startin to roll....Railroad cars still largely uninspected

But they will vacume your shorts for contraband at airport security...even though pilots are still for the most part unarmed after waiting for two years (had pilots been armed we probably wouldnt even have anything to look back at today)"

Worth restatement.

[Lord_Baltar]

Not friggin likely...

There's too much money involved, and the Saudis have the right people on the payroll...

[playball0]

Yes. Give us time. First the Taliban. Then Saadam. Maybe Syria. Detour NK. Next Iran. Then Saudia Arabia

[quant5]

Very well written article. Thanks for the post. The author is dead on. As one poster mentioned, we may wind up punishing Saudi Arabia slowly but surely doing business with someone else for our oil. Problem is the countries such as India and China have exploding populations and rising income levels leading to much higher demand. We may not be paying the Saudis in ten years, but someone else will.

Let's not forget the $100 million dollar fund raiser by the Saudis either which went toward the Jihad against Israel. As more of these extreme nutcases Wahabbis get into power like Prince Nayef, the more stupid and demonic their actions become. Our goverment or media can only keep the ugly truth down for so long. I fear 9/11's will be repeated until we wake up and do what we have to do. That requires a strong stomach.

[dagnabbit]

Yes! If they don't behave - no seconds at the next Crawford BBQ!

[blanknoone]

Saud's biggest stick is OPEC..they use their production (and threat of more) to limit the production of other oil producers. They face a problem though...more and more countries are becoming significant producers because the prices are held artificially high. If Iraq produces as much as it can...it could well mean the death knell of OPEC within the decade. OPEC's share of the world oil market is steadily shrinking...and is likely to continue to do so. I for one am very much looking forward to Russian Siberian oil piped to the far east in great quantities. West Africa may also become a big player with a little regional stabilty.

[blanknoone]

I left out one pair of statistics tells it all...the Saudis used to sell $12,500 per capita of oil. Now they sell $2,500 per capita. The masses can no longer be bought off for so little.