Saudis Demand that the US Release Most of the Terrorists Held in Cuba.

CBS News - Saudis Want Detainees Turned Over ^ | Mon, 28 Jan 2002 20:25:04 EST -- BREAKING! | Editorial Staff

[Thumper1960]

"...Interior Minister Prince Nayef told reporters, "The issue of prisoners is important to us and we ask that they be handed over to us so we can interrogate them."

USA: "..........Ummmmmm..............No."

[MossbergPump]

If we are bluffing, we will back down and keep our base (for now, anyway). If we do not back down (i.e., we are not bluffing), the Saudis will either back down, or ask us to leave. (I do not think we would stay after being publicly told to leave.) I am confident that we are not bluffing. Therefore, the Saudis have a decision to make: back down, or ask us to leave. Given the internal situation in Saudi Arabia, my bet is that they ask us to leave. Then they could honestly say: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Thumper1960]

Good luck freezing those Saudi assets. Scuttlebutt is that their a$$ets are dwindling very fast. The assorted Princes and Whores (oops!) are living the good life while the average Saudi is up crap creek....no water and no canoe. Too bad the Saudis are going down, big time.

[EternalHope]

Well said.

[texson66]

Good luck freezing those Saudi assets. Scuttlebutt is that their a$$ets are dwindling very fast. The assorted Princes and Whores (oops!) are living the good life while the average Saudi is up crap creek....no water and no canoe. Too bad the Saudis are going down, big time.

Maybe. But even if its their last 10 million, it will still be 10 million that they can't use to fund terrorists!

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

yes, and people who lost loved ones in the WTC attack want them back.

neither thing will happen.

Saudi Arabia + Napalm = good times for all!

[Dialup Llama]

>You got it Bob - tell them to go pound sand...

I've always wanted to tell a Saudi to pound sand. I mean it just fits.

[Bush2000]

Precisely

Now we're talking about issues that agree on. The Saudis lost jurisdiction over these guys when they went to Afghanistan and decided to fight for the terrorists. I'm all in favor of continuing a probe into how deep this runs into the Saudi government. But I'd hesitate before you jump to conclusions. Could be that some rich prick sand-rat has a kid among the terrorists and wants him returned. Fact is, we don't know the facts. But let's get the truth before we turn anybody over.

[ASTM366]

Send em' home in a casket.

[bjcintennessee]

Unfortunately we have already set a precedent by sending one of the Taliban prisoners back to his home country. Remember the traitor John Walker? Any day now the international community will point out how we treated one of our own 'former' citizens differently than the rest.

Walker should have been imprisoned with the rest of the scum. Instead, we let political pressure from bleeding hearts place us on shakey ground when the Saudi's, et al, demand -- er um, request that their citizens be returned to thier country of citizenship in a similar manner.

[takenoprisoner]

Dear Saudis,
The war on terrorism shall soon reach your shores as the evidence of your complicity in worldwide terrorism mounts.

I find your willingness to openly self indict incredible. Course it does make our job of seperating the wheat from the chaffe a little easier.

thanks for your cooperation,
tnp

[monday]

"Either way, it's a tenuous hold on power and it can't last forever in a modern world."

I'm sure the Sauds are saying one thing in public to appease the clerics, and their public, and another behind the scenes to washington, but this is the game they have always played, everyone is getting wise to it. I think their time is short. If your largest neighbor hates you and your people hate you, it seems unwise to also spit in the face of the most powerful country in the world as well, even if you don't mean it, especially if they are the only thing keeping your butt out of the fire. Even the US will get tired of this kind of treatment eventually? lol who am I kidding Washington will never take a moral stand. They will take it as long as we the people don't demand a change.

[takenoprisoner]

Send em' home in a casket.

No casket necessary when properly disposed.

[Centurion2000]

BE ADVISED THAT THE SAUDI'S MAY MOVE THEIR FINANCIAL ASSETS OUT OF WESTERN BANKS.

That's when Bush and co. freeze their assests and the gloves come off.

[Yougottabekidding]

It was Clevon Little, and what he really said would probably get me booted off the board. ".. or the N!$$^% gets it"... -Hilarious.

[sheik yerbouty]

America akbar!

[RichInOC]

And shortly after we go wheels up, everything at the base that can blow up, does blow up, the Crown Prince asks, "WHAT HAPPEN?" and the Defense Minister replies "SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB."