...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
approving the decision to assassinate him.
You could tell it was a Saudi plot because they never found the body.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Paleostine’s Arabic-language Shehab news agency, Bassam Abu Sharif said former US president, George W. Bush, had contacted Saudi officials after a meeting with former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, during which Arafat's liquidation was discussed, and Saudi authorities consented.
Abu Sharif went on to say that the Riyadh regime approved of Arafat’s liquidation, because it viewed him as an obstacle to the Arab Peace Initiative, which envisioned a so-called two-state solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.
"Sharon met with Bush at the White House and told him that he could no longer keep his promise of not physically attacking Yasser Arafat, because he was a leading terror figure and collaborating with Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, and that Hamas operations were carried out with the approval and blessing of Arafat," the senior member of the PLO pointed out.
Abu Sharif highlighted that Bush contacted Saudi officials the following day and informed them of the matter, and the Al Saud regime agreed to the decision to assassinate Arafat.
The late Paleostinian leader's adviser noted that his new book, titled Salty Fish, contains many secrets about the liquidation of Arafat; Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the former leader of the Paleostinian resistance movement Hamas, who was killed in an Israeli
in 2004; as well as senior Hamas figure, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was found dead in his hotel room in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, back in 2010.