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2003-07-22 Arabia

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Posted by Steve 2003-07-22 9:23:39 AM|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Humm, now I wonder who could be providing that?

Couldn't be a Saudi spy satellite: their religion forbids graven images, you know. I think that will help narrow down the possibilities!

Posted by Anonymous 2003-7-22 11:22:59 AM|| 2003-7-22 11:22:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 "the Saudi security forces were able to pinpoint the terrorists and their location with the help of sophisticated satellite surveillance equipment"

Could also just be a story to cover a double agent, or a captured terrorist who's talking....

gawd I love intelligence mind games....

Posted by Carl in NH 2003-7-22 11:44:34 AM|| 2003-7-22 11:44:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I agree; the satellite story is cover. One of the princes has probably turned.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-7-22 12:28:01 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2003-7-22 12:28:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 OR it's all just bullshit. The Saudis are not above rounding up their own enemies, those who've made it onto the Royal Shitlist, and tell us they're Al Qaeda. I wonder just how much access the Fibbies or CIA have actually had to these people... Not playing conspiracy games, just considering the nature of the Saudi beast, whose most identifiable traits are deceit, duplicity, and complicity - and whose most identifiable effect on the world besides selling oil is to use much of the proceeds to foster and spread intolerance and virulent hate, worldwide.

Posted by PD 2003-7-22 1:45:33 PM|| 2003-7-22 1:45:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Or if you buy into the theory that the Saudi royals are just as committed to destroying the West as al Qaeda, then the conservatives are taking out a few of the radicals in an adjustment of tactics. I think that al Qaeda has outlived its usefulness to the House of Saud. The royals are having more success through demographics and prosletization. Their future tactical model will be infiltration, reproduction, intifada, and prosletization (by preaching at first, later by means of the sword and the jizya).

Posted by 11A5S 2003-7-22 2:06:39 PM|| 2003-7-22 2:06:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 11A5S >>> I agree, time is their best weapon. OK, so are those baby production machines, manportable, 1 each.

Posted by Paul 2003-7-22 2:34:19 PM|| 2003-7-22 2:34:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Paul: Man-portable and self-guided! Seriously, the women are one of the Islamists biggest weaknesses. Birth rate always goes down with education. We need to educate them and get them out of the scarves as badly as the wahhabis need to keep them illiterate, barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-7-22 4:15:05 PM|| 2003-7-22 4:15:05 PM|| Front Page Top

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