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| 2003-11-23 | |
Germany's intelligence service chief said on Wednesday there were signs that Islamic militants may be planning an attack on the Saudi royal family, alongside growing threats to foreigners and diplomats in the kingdom. "We have warnings of attacks on diplomatic representatives but also foreigners' residential areas," August Henning, head of the BND intelligence service, said in an interview on German television. "But we are increasingly getting signs from the warnings that the royal family itself is a target. That is certainly a new dimension," he said. Henning said the BND believed that al-Qaeda was playing an important role in the spate of attacks on US troops and other targets in Iraq, because of the professional and deadly manner in which the operations were being carried out. "This manner of proceeding, suggests to us that al-Qaeda is active and is participating in the attacks," he said.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 And the Bush family's connection with the Saudis is swept under the |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-11-23 11:13:34 PM |
| #5 This is just the fanatically-pro-al'Qaeda wing of the Saudi "royal" family planning to use its terrorist connections in its successional fight with the not-quite-as-pro-al'Qaeda wing of the Saudi "royal" family. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-11-23 2:06:11 PM |
| #4 Perhaps we are seeing a shift to a more traditional 'revolutionary' strategy. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2003-11-23 12:15:18 PM |
| #3 No one is untouchable to the patient man. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-23 10:17:54 AM |
| #2 I've just read a book by Laurent Murawiec, on the Saudi family; like others on the same subject, it's not great literature; unlike others, it is not a more or less objective analysis, but a violent charge against the royals (basically, the Pentagon report that got him fired from Rand corp., in another form), against its Washington lobby, and the corrupting influence it has on the arab world, the western economy, and islam. Truly frightening. The Saud have been tricking their "allies" since the beginnig, doing global scale razzias (1973 embargo), living in a tribal mindset straight out of the dark ages and spreading it,... and they have so well bought they way into western economical/military/political elites that they are basically untouchable. Murawiec advocates pretty drastic measures ("de-saudize Saudi Arabia") that would please most people here, but I truly doubt there ever will be enough political will to implement even the slightest one of them. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-23 5:25:41 AM |
| #1 In this case, I can see why some people might root for qaeda to succeed. Nothing would be better than to see these fucks murdered by their own monsters. |
| Posted by: ISLAM SUCKS 2003-11-23 1:47:58 AM |