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| Prince Nayaf: Saudis won’t extradite Bayumi |
| 2003-07-29 |
| Riyadh - Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz (a.k.a. ’No Al-Qaeda cells in Saudi Arabia’ and The Prince of Insincerity (Zionists did it!) and The Prince of Fingerprints) on Tuesday ruled out the extradition of Saudi national Omar al-Bayumi, suspected by Washington of having been an associate of two of the 9/11 suicide bombers. Yup. He did. "We have never handed over a Saudi to a state or foreign party and we will never do it," Prince Nayef said when asked by Al-Hayat newspaper if Riyadh was ready to extradite Bayumi. Nope. Uh, uh. Not happening. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along. The force is with A US congressional report on the September 11, 2001 attacks released last week stated that Bayumi was an associate of two of the hijackers, Khaled al-Mihdar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, and could have been a Saudi government agent. This is the guy with apparently unlimited funds who helped out the two 9/11 guys when they were tooling around El Lay. "Reports that Omar al-Bayumi is an agent of the Saudi government are baseless and not true," Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, said at the time. My wife knows him. Not me. So he’s not official. Not an agent. Nope. "It is unfortunate that reports keep circulating in the media describing him as an agent of the Saudi government with attribution only to anonymous officials," Prince Bandar said. Your wife is anonymous? Oh, I forgot - you’re Saudi, so of course she’s anonymous. My bad. So, think there might some reason (other than they’ve never done it before) that the Saudis wouldn’t want Al Bayumi in US hands? Geeeeee. I can’t think of anything... |
| Posted by:PD |
| #6 He'll likely be found dead in the middle of the desert, with a clip-full of bullets in him, the apparent victim of a heart attack. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-7-29 4:45:30 PM |
| #5 Wonder if al-Bayumi is worth 28 pages of a report? |
| Posted by: john 2003-7-29 3:15:08 PM |
| #4 So, how long before he has one of those famous Saudi "traffic accidents"? |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-7-29 2:44:01 PM |
| #3 So whack him in place. What, no assets? Too risky. And that's with either airstrikes or men on the ground.* Either would trigger a major diplomatic rupture. Unless we're prepared to go to war with Saudi Arabia, of course. I'm not sure that's in the cards right now. The frontburner issues are North Korea and Iran, not Saudi Arabia (especially since the Saudis are taking care of the jihadis instead of letting them roam free). * The dirtbag isn't worth the life of a single American soldier, so ground operations are out. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-7-29 2:29:18 PM |
| #2 dont wanna whack him. wanna find out where hes getting his money from. if we whack him, thats a sign we're protecting the Saudi higher ups. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-7-29 11:22:05 AM |
| #1 So whack him in place. What, no assets? Not likely. |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-7-29 10:54:53 AM |