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| US condemns Saudi efforts to end terrorism |
| 2004-05-30 |
| There has been bipartisan condemnation in the United States Congress of the Saudi Arabian Government’s efforts to stamp out terrorism. Some in the US believe Saudi Arabia is now facing more than a terrorist threat and is instead confronting a low level insurgency. Despite this, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Republican chairman Richard Luger says the Saudis continue to fund radical Islamic schools. "The Saudi Government funds the Madrass schools and out of these come young Saudis who join these militant organisations," he said. Democrat House leader Nancy Pilocey agrees. "I don’t know how many more acts of terrorism will have to happen for them to wake up," she said. The US embassy in Riyadh has renewed its call for US citizens to leave the kingdom. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |
| #7 ANWAR! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-05-31 12:37:09 AM |
| #6 ANWAR! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-30 9:24:26 PM |
| #5 The House of Sa'ud created the monster that is now biting the hand that feed it all these years. If it were not for the fact we can not allow the jihdees control all that crude oil, I for one would say, let the 'royal Sa'udis' sink in their own sand. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-05-30 8:43:07 PM |
| #4 this is indeed serious and all the more reason not to tap the strategic oil reserve as some dems have suggested. keep filling it up regardless of the cost of oil. |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-05-30 8:17:45 PM |
| #3 Saudi efforts to end terrorism Oxymoron alert! Saudi efforts to finance terrorism That's more like it! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-05-30 8:10:39 PM |
| #2 The Saudis thought feeding the crocodiles would save them. It's a little too late for "bi partisan" tongue lashing from our elected politicians, who neither saw nor spoke any evil about the princes until recently. Here's a 5/10/04 article from USA Today that documents how precarious the Kingdom's future is. The mass exodus of oil industry ex-patriots will not be helpful to the princes, since most Saudi folks still can't work more than a 2 hour day without feeling weary. Yet another good reason to treat our stalwart allies, the Kurds, nicely. Their VAST oil resources are yet untapped; Kurds are not Arabs; Kurds have been treated VERY badly by Muslim nations, so they have no illusions about their Muslim brethern. Hopefully, the Sods can keep the barbarians from rushing the gates for another couple of years until we get Kurdistan oil derricks up and running. After the Sods fall, so sad, too bad, we can declare war on the new terrorist gov't. http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2004-05-10-saudi-oil_x.htm "Taking down Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure is like spearing fish in a barrel," former CIA officer Robert Baer writes in his recent book, Sleeping with the Devil. The Saudis have 262 billion barrels of proven reserves, 25% of the world's total. Nine percent of the petroleum consumed in the USA each day comes from Saudi Arabia, accounting for 15% of U.S. imports. The kingdom has five giant fields that are connected by 10,500 miles of pipe, much of it above ground. A coordinated assault on five or more key junctions in the system could put the Saudis out of the oil business for two years, Baer writes. "The choke points are too many to count," he says. His conclusion: A successful assault on the giant Ras Tanura complex "would be enough to bring the world's oil-addicted economies to their knees, America's along with them." |
| Posted by: rex 2004-05-30 7:26:21 PM |
#1 TS - you left some words out of your headline. It should read:US condemns Saudi;-) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-30 7:07:00 PM |