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2004-12-08 Arabia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-12-08 1:46:13 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Interesting comment: From what I've been reading, it looks like all the dead are ex-pat workers from third world countries.

Jabar Nirous, Sri Lanka
Salah Abdel Qawi, Yemeni
A Sudanese colleague
Latif Aboulhosn, Lebanese

No Saudis. I wonder why.

Posted by SwissTex 2004-12-08 10:40:36 AM|| 2004-12-08 10:40:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Should I dare say the 2 most obvious words that have characterized every attack in the Kingdom of Venom and that the Press has avoided saying at all cost? INSIDE JOB!

Posted by Anonymous4724 2004-12-08 10:48:34 AM|| 2004-12-08 10:48:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn right, Anon. You can be sure it's being investigated. However, my guess is Prince Naive already knows to what extent it was an inside job. W's job is to force the info out of the Royals.

Here is a good pretext to send a shot across the bow of the good ship Saud. Election here is over and now we want names. You don't cough them up and show us ALL your docs, good-bye Prince Bandar as Saudi ambassador to USA. THAT would be a shock and would really let House of Saud know we mean business. Fuel cell development is a bit too abstract for the tea sippers to grasp. The late energetic and Arabist Hume Horan was our ambassador to MK in '80's and the Saudis dissed us by telling our Repub admin to get him out of Dodge as he was actually doing one of the jobs ambassadors are supposed to do; namely find out what the atmosphere of a country is by going around and talking to folks. Too much for Royals.
Our disgrace was to submit to change.

Posted by chicago mike 2004-12-08 1:37:25 PM|| 2004-12-08 1:37:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Indeed, CM, tossing Bandar would be the wake-up call: not everyone in Washington is for sale and no longer are the suckups in charge.

I doubt this incident will be sufficient for that action, however... IMHO, the Paul Johnson killing was when this should've happened, but that was pre-election times and everything was uber-sensitive. Now is, indeed, the time to make a stand against the Saudi duplicity - and force CP Abdullah to confront Nayef... after all, they're rivals (Sudairi Seven vs Shammar - Abdullah is the only son) and until they have gotten the goods from their PakiWaki minions squared away, they need us - BS GCC Conference grandstanding and bluster notwithstanding.

Posted by .com 2004-12-08 1:58:12 PM|| 2004-12-08 1:58:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I like it! Toss in the suggestion that our experience is that an ambassador who stays too long goes loses his perspective and goes native, and things could get a bit more interesting than usual in the princely compounds, no?

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-08 6:06:17 PM|| 2004-12-08 6:06:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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