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Backlash in Saudi Arabia
The Christian Science Monitor ^ | Sunday, August 11, 2002 | Nawaf Obaid

Posted on 08/11/2002 2:28:41 PM PDT by Dog Gone

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1 posted on 08/11/2002 2:28:41 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
Why not? Saudis virutaly nuke our holy trade centers, why should their Mecca be worth more?
2 posted on 08/11/2002 2:36:56 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: lavaroise
It's a damn rock they worship after all.
3 posted on 08/11/2002 2:37:15 PM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Dog Gone
An apology piece?

According to what I read here much of the money behind the construction of Mosques is from the Saudi Wahabbis.

Be sure and see this article :

Wahabbi Lobby takes the offensive [Liberal apologists make willing dupes]

4 posted on 08/11/2002 2:38:38 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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5 posted on 08/11/2002 2:41:16 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Dog Gone
I would be VERY surprised if Saudi money DIDN'T finance the attack on the WTC. Wern't 15 of the 19 murderers from Saudi Arabia? I think it is sickening that the US calls the Saudis an ally. Ally my a$$!
6 posted on 08/11/2002 2:41:34 PM PDT by teletech
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
An apology piece?

I guess that's what it is. I thought it was plain weird.

This is the first I've heard of any plan to carve up Saudi Arabia, and that sounds like the rantings of someone who is very paranoid.

Then it proceeds to tell us to work with them. Sheesh, that's what we've been trying to do for years. It's important that they work with us, and they're doing less and less of that every day.

7 posted on 08/11/2002 2:43:06 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: lavaroise
Kick their a$$ and take their gas.
8 posted on 08/11/2002 2:43:50 PM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: Dog Gone
I don't know whether we WANT an enemy in Saudi Arabia, but we certainly do HAVE one!

To pretend otherwise would be the height of folly.

9 posted on 08/11/2002 2:47:42 PM PDT by crystalk
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To: Dog Gone
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10 posted on 08/11/2002 2:49:12 PM PDT by Red Jones
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To: Dog Gone
That partitioning thing sounds like a plan. It makes no sense at all to leave such a valuable world commodity in the hands of religious fanatics and potentates whose worldview and system of government hearken back to the Middle Ages.

It should be noted, of course, that we have no interest at all in Mecca and Medina, and the Muslims can have those cities as long as they like. Since almost every nation in that region was set up by the Western powers anyway, it shouldn't cause too much trouble, should it? Unless, of course, it really is about the money for them.

It would be most enlightening to see the reaction, should such a plan ever be proposed. I wonder how many "princes" would gladly toss Islam to the weeds to maintain their fabulous wealth and power.

11 posted on 08/11/2002 2:52:17 PM PDT by Long Cut
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To: Dog Gone
But what has especially enraged Saudis are rumors of an American plan to partition the kingdom.

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12 posted on 08/11/2002 3:01:58 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: crystalk
I don't know whether we WANT an enemy in Saudi Arabia, but we certainly do HAVE one!

Just the fact that we have to convince ourselves and others of this illustrates the fact that things could be worse....there could be another oil embargo like the one that basically crippled our economy in the 1970s.
Considering all the inflamatory rhetoric being thrown around, I expect we will indeed see far worse.
Perhaps instead of the hypocritical Royal Family, an openly hostile radical Islamic state in their place.
That would be nice.

13 posted on 08/11/2002 3:01:59 PM PDT by Jorge
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And while Saudi foreign policy will always be informed by the kingdom's responsibilities as guardian of Islam's holiest sites,...

The Saudis were not always the guardians of Islam's Holiest Sites. The Saudis took that honor away from the Hashimites with the help of the British.

The guardianship is the only positive thing that the Saudi's have going for them. But I think that things are about to change.

14 posted on 08/11/2002 3:20:33 PM PDT by Mike Darancette
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To: Dog Gone
Get rid of our enviro-wahabbis, dig coal, burn coal, drill oil, fire up the nukes and get Russia going. Get oil down to $15 a barrel and watch the "brotherhood" of Arabs gouge each other eyes out for sales. Once the lovelies turn upon each other in the Saudi family compound, there will be so many private jets and 777s, 747s leaving that it will be visible from space. Fat incest crooked know-nothing pork rib eating camel sodimites.
15 posted on 08/11/2002 3:25:56 PM PDT by Leisler
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To: Jorge
I expect we will indeed see far worse. Perhaps instead of the hypocritical Royal Family, an openly hostile radical Islamic state in their place. That would be nice.

An openly hostile radical Islamic state without the oil fields or the money. I doubt that the Muslim World would long leave such an entity in charge of the Holy Places.

This could be a very good thing. When it is late at night and you are being cheated at the card table sometimes you just gotta' kick over the table and shoot out the light.

16 posted on 08/11/2002 3:30:50 PM PDT by Mike Darancette
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neoconservative

Nice word play. Didn't quite have the nuts to call us neo-nazis, did you?

Saudis see a growing animosity in American government and media.

Maybe it has something to do with their open blatant support of terrorists.

But what has especially enraged Saudis are rumors of an American plan to partition the kingdom.

Good, I hope they're so mad they can't see straight. They need to realize that they can't have it both ways. If it were up to me, Mecca would be a smoking hole and Saudi would be divided between Exxon and Chevron.

17 posted on 08/11/2002 3:35:46 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Jorge
Before the dust (or sand) settles, we may long for the days when Saudi oil was cheap and we cheered their public beheadings of criminals.

That was not very long ago at all.

18 posted on 08/11/2002 3:38:57 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
This is the first I've heard of any plan to carve up Saudi Arabia, and that sounds like the rantings of someone who is very paranoid.

That was basically the gist of the July 10 Rand Powerpoint presentation in which a not so thinly veiled suggestion was made that the Princes (and Saddam) could be replaced.

19 posted on 08/11/2002 3:49:18 PM PDT by Mike Darancette
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To: crystalk
There is no reason not to let them know that we are wise to their real actions and interests. Add my voice to those who despise the moslem saudi scum.
20 posted on 08/11/2002 3:54:41 PM PDT by lobo59
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