Posted on 10/12/2001 8:11:53 AM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
Friday Oct. 12, 2001; 9:40 a.m. EDT
Saudi Prince Threatens Payback for Giuliani Snub
Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal suggested Friday that he'll make New York pay a price for Mayor Rudy Giuliani's refusal to accept his $10 million dollar check for the Twin Tower relief fund, saying he's ready to "put his money where is mouth is."
The Saudi prince contributed the big bucks after Giuliani gave him a tour of the World Trade Center disaster site Thursday. Bin Talal said at the time, "Saudi Arabia is with the United States wholeheartedly."
But hours later the wealthy Arab released a statement saying:
"I believe the the government of the United States should reexamine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance towards the Palestinian cause. Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of the Israelis while the rest of the world turns the other cheek."
Upon hearing about the bin Talal's press release, Giuliani condemned the statement as "highly irresponsible and very, very dangerous." Hizzoner's aides returned the Saudi's money after determining that his check had not yet been cashed.
The mayor's snub prompted the Saudi prince to leave in a huff for home, where he spoke to NBC's Andrea Mitchell.
"He's not backing down," Mitchell told radioman Don Imus Friday morning. "He says he has a big stake in New York (and) he puts his money where his mouth is."
Bin Talal's financial stake in the Big Apple includes a $10 billion investment in banking giant Citicorp, half ownership of the Plaza Hotel, substantial investments in the Saks Fifth Avenue department store and NewsCorp., the parent company of the New York Post and the Fox News Channel.
He also has part of his $20 billion personal fortune invested in AOL Time Warner, Apple Computer.
Do these butt-plugs actually think talk such as this will be recieved lightly by us?
Do these morons actually think this type of behavior is acceptable?
Are they actually this stupid...
No coffee this morning.
No coffee this morning.
(1) He intends to use his money to finance terror in the Middle East. In that case:
(a) He is merely continuing more publicly an undertaking he has already been financing or
(b) He intends to begin financing terrorism.
In either case he becomes a target of the war on terrorism.
OR
(2) He intends to withdraw his investment in New York's economy. In that eventuality:
(a) Plenty of people are willing to step up and invest in FOX, the Plaza, Citigroup, etc. and
(b) Where will he allocate his assets? The Middle East? In that case he'll watch his $20B become $1B in short order.
He is irrelevant.
Because guys like Al Gore and Tom Daschle would rather see our economy collapse than ruin "pristine" areas like the frozen tundra of north Alaska or the coal mines of West Virginia.
I wonder if this is why AOL is remarkably pro-Islamic.
Not Rudy!!!!
Huh? What are you talking about? We don't have any resources left in this country! Anyway, if, if, if we were to make more holes in Mother Earth that would be wrong! All of nature is linked together in this great circle of life. And we should all join hands and learn to respect all life as one. The birds and bees and trees are the same as each and every human. Except for unborn babies, it's A-OK to kill those. But everything else is precious. Let's all sing along now.....
/SARCASM OFF
You are right. Plus with American can-do and ingenuity someone somwhere will create something that will solve the "energy problem". In the meantime, just be sure to keep out of the way of "nick" when you are the road. I don't drive no stinking rice-burner and that's a modified Corvette engine you hear behind you:) Vaaarrrroooommm!
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