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2005-09-18 Arabia

Saudi Explains How Al-Qaeda Used Him for Terror Operation

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Posted by Fred 2005-09-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fred: Maybe it'll drive home to them that if they fail in achieving their goal of 72 flat-chested 12-year-olds in the afterlife, there aren't going to be any waiting for them here to change their colostomy bags and attend to their wants.

I've read that the houris are really good-looking. The catch is that Muslim priests have taken care to emphasize that the relationship is strictly asexual. Thus, they'll be in paradise having platonic relationships with 72 women endowed with beauty pageant looks. It makes the Greek tale of Tantalus seem like a picnic.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-18 01:03|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-18 01:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Waitaminute! I thought it was raisins! 72 rare-as-a-day-in-June raisins!

Posted by Bobby 2005-09-18 07:51|| 2005-09-18 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Bobby, please do not tell us what you think you might do during an eternity with 72 sexually active rare white raisins.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-09-18 12:10|| 2005-09-18 12:10|| Front Page Top

#4 There is so much bull shit in this article, I had to put my trusty anti-bs goggles on to finish reading it.

Ahamd the victim? Hardly. Unbeknownest to the Saudis? No. If recruitment can take place so readily, government infiltrators could just as readily infiltrate the network.

As for Ahmad, what the hell does he think is happening in Iraq by AQ recruits? And which "Iraqi people" is he trying to help?

One hopes the Soddies pull his roasted carvass apart limb by limb on live tv.

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-18 15:06|| 2005-09-18 15:06|| Front Page Top

#5 CA: Unbeknownest to the Saudis? No. If recruitment can take place so readily, government infiltrators could just as readily infiltrate the network.

Terror groups may be organized by tribal allegiance solidified by blood ties, which will make them hard to infiltrate. Initiation rites may involve killing security personnel. Al Qaeda's goal is to put itself in power in some Muslim state. There is no reason for the 5,000-odd princelings of Saudi Arabia to kick themselves off the public payroll, which is what would happen if al Qaeda took over. There might be Al Qaeda sympathizers among them, but I can't imagine more than a tiny minority are prepared to lose their stipends over a millenial ideology.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-18 18:56|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-18 18:56|| Front Page Top

#6 ZF -- we know for a fact that some of the Saudi princes have been funding AQ. We've had a few of them named, and, interestingly, they died in mysterious ways long before they were outed as funders.

One died of exposure in the desert, AFAICR, and another died in a car crash on the way to the funeral.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-18 19:01|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-18 19:01|| Front Page Top

#7 There is also the islamic duty to fund jihad against Dar al Harb. The princelings justify funding AQ because they also attack infidels.

Posted by ed 2005-09-18 19:06|| 2005-09-18 19:06|| Front Page Top

#8 RC: we know for a fact that some of the Saudi princes have been funding AQ. We've had a few of them named, and, interestingly, they died in mysterious ways long before they were outed as funders. One died of exposure in the desert, AFAICR, and another died in a car crash on the way to the funeral.

A few Saudi princes isn't the Saudi government, any more than communist infiltrators in the Federal government were representative of the United States. The fact is that an al Qaeda takeover in Saudi Arabia would not be advantageous to the Saudi royal family - they would lose their stipends just as surely as the Shah of Iran lost his, post-revolution. Why would al Qaeda want to take over? Because al Qaeda isn't just an ideology - it is ultimately led by men who not only want power in their own right, they want control over the tens of billions currently frittered away by the Saudi royal family on vacations, alcohol, women and shopping trips to expensive European stores.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-18 19:25|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-18 19:25|| Front Page Top

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