Our friends, the Saudis
Our friends, the Saudis
Anyone who studies US-Israel relations realizes that two words summarize the reason for the half-hearted support given to Israel by the US administration: Saudi Arabia. It is this cancer that determines the attitudes of Foggy Bottom and the CIA, which in turn are translated into constant pressure on Israel. For this reason, I deem it of the utmost significance to constantly expose Saudi Arabia for what it is.
One way to do so is by informing Americans as to the danger that Saudi Arabia constitutes to the US, and particularly, by informing Americans about the assistance the Saudis have given terrorists. In this piece I quote selected passages from the concluding chapter of
Schwartz, Stephen. The Two Faces of Islam. New York: Doubleday, 2002.
In the aftermath of September 11, the Saudi authorities were asked, as allies of the United States in the anti-terror war, to investigate, freeze, and seize the bank accounts of participants in and contributors to terrorist activities. In addition, like other foreign carriers, Saudi airlines were asked to provide advance passenger lists for flights to the United States. These requests were not specifically prompted by the discovery that 15 out of the 19 terrorists involved in the attacks on New York and Washington were Saudi citizens and the long-standing awareness that most of Osama bin Laden's funds also came from the kingdom. Rather, they were viewed as almost perfunctory measures necessary for a coordinated response to bin Laden's terrorism. But in both cases, the Saudis refused compliance...
President Bush, carrying water for the desert chieftain, reassured Americans that he had been told no "oil weapon" would be used against us, that Crown Prince Abdullah opposed terror against Americans, and that the Saudi regime hated bin Laden as much as we did. Nevertheless, Abdullah failed to disavow the preaching on his soil and in his media of terror against Americans, as well as against the Israeli Jews and Arabs.
There were precedents for these absurdities. The Saudis had never committed to a full and transparent investigation of the Khobar Towers bombing of 1996. Nineteen Americans had been killed and 372 injured in an assault on a US. military residential complex in the kingdom. With the apparent acquiescence of US intelligence and law enforcement, the Saudis blamed this atrocity on Iranian sympathizers. But Saudi dissidents claimed it had been the work of bin Laden's supporters, an involvement concealed by the Saudis to hide their overall association with his extremist cadres.
Khobar was the second such incident in recent times. In 1995, five Americans and an Indian citizen were killed by a bomb in Riyadh. A month before the Khobar blast, the Saudi government announced that four Saudis, three of them reportedly "Afghan Arabs," had been executed for the Riyadh explosion. American investigators were prevented from interviewing the suspects. In that proceeding as well, there were claims from within the kingdom that the Saudis had worked a coverup...
Abdullah has expended much rhetoric in praise of the stop-start "peace process" that began at Oslo in 1993. Paradoxically, he remains a firm supporter of Yasir Arafat, Hamas, and other proponents of Arab resistance in Israel...
One should also recall that the Saudis constituted a major obstacle to the efforts of the US to form a coalition force against Saddam Hussein.
Gerald Posner, in his book, “Secrets of the Kingdom”, catalogues and documents an updated, extensive list of Saudis steps in support of terrorism, both before 9-11 and after it. I will provide quotation from Posner’s book in the next installment in this series.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at December 17, 2005 08:58 PM
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rocky
said:
Abdullah is not only a firm supporter of Hamas. Most of the financial support of Hamas can be traced to Saudi Arabia. That is why the Palestinian cause is increasingly religious. They do what their masters, the gusrdians of the holy places, tell them.
the Saudi/Hamas symbiosis is advantageous for both.
The wholehearted support the corrupt Saudi royal family gives to Palestinian terrorism, gives those decadent despots a much needed good image and even prestige among the wider Muslim society worldwide.
Posted by: rocky on December 18, 2005 04:51 AM
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BobW
said:
President Bush might have been "told" that no Saudi "oil weapon" would be used against the US. The presumption is that Crown Prince Abdullah exerts control over all of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Kingdom where the Khobar Towers are located is also the Kingdom which saw the Grand Mosque in Mecca taken over by 200-300 terrorists in 1979. Only because of the intervention of infidels from France was the Grand Mosque recaptured. This event is more important that the other bombings.
What was not told by President Bush was that in 1974 the US Treasury Department agreed to keep secret the source and amount of Saudi investments in the US. I vaguely recall Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal brought this up and American Jewish Congress filed some lawsuit.
Saudi Arabia will not - nor need not - give the US passenger lists in advance. It is the USG that has the weaker position. It is no longer just the oil. America's economy has reliance on the recycled petrodollars. I believe this is =slowly= being addressed by USG. In 2 weeks, Medicare Part D, the prescription pill program kicks in. I believe this is a quiet plan to break the habit of US expendatures of $US 1.8 trillion per year on health care - funded with foreign money borrowed with interest. When the US economy is not dependent on Arab petrodollars, Jews will be safer. America's politicans have not forgotten the riots in Los Angeles, Toledo, Ohio, and elsewhere. The domestic economy is dependent on foreign funds. Thank the oil barons, amongst others.
Recently, OPEC member Indonesia announced it will start building a nuclear reactor for electricity generation. This, too, will assist the US economy and by extension the Atlantic Alliance.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on December 18, 2005 06:09 AM
3.
georg von mecklenburg
said:
We all must remember that at least in the western countries, our dependence on oil is paramount to anything else. Without oil, everything just grinds to a complete halt. On a recent trip to the USA I noticed that the price of diesel was 20 to 40 cents higher than refined gasoline. How can that be, when diesel is cheaper to produce and store when compared to gasoline production. Everyone in the USA drives big vehicles. SUV's down to sport cars... all guzzle gasoline... where do you think all of the fuel comes from?
Posted by: georg von mecklenburg on December 18, 2005 09:41 AM
4.
BobW
said:
Shalom Georg,
The differential is being used to pay off US debt. The extra cost for diesel fuel does not get credited to Arab bank accounts.
America's economy is being adjusted back into equilibrium. It's painful but required by laws no less strong than that of gravity.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on December 18, 2005 10:36 AM
5.
KEITH DAWID
said:
"THE WORLD IS A SLAVE TO ESAU-ISHMAEL"
Posted by: KEITH DAWID on December 18, 2005 11:13 AM
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Our friends, the Saudis
Anyone who studies US-Israel relations realizes that two words summarize the reason for the half-hearted support given to Israel by the US administration: Saudi Arabia. It is this cancer that determines the attitudes of Foggy Bottom and the CIA, which in turn are translated into constant pressure on Israel. For this reason, I deem it of the utmost significance to constantly expose Saudi Arabia for what it is.
One way to do so is by informing Americans as to the danger that Saudi Arabia constitutes to the US, and particularly, by informing Americans about the assistance the Saudis have given terrorists. In this piece I quote selected passages from the concluding chapter of
Schwartz, Stephen. The Two Faces of Islam. New York: Doubleday, 2002.
One should also recall that the Saudis constituted a major obstacle to the efforts of the US to form a coalition force against Saddam Hussein.
Gerald Posner, in his book, “Secrets of the Kingdom”, catalogues and documents an updated, extensive list of Saudis steps in support of terrorism, both before 9-11 and after it. I will provide quotation from Posner’s book in the next installment in this series.
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at December 17, 2005 08:58 PM