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2003-08-15 Arabia

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-15 11:07:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why should they be surprised? They're funding them.

Hell, I hope the next list we send them includes every royal, every cop, and every nutbag imam in Saudi Arabia.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-8-15 11:14:49 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-8-15 11:14:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 They should just set up a booth at the next Hajj...or maybe a booth at the casino in Monaco during the next royal vacation...

Posted by seafarious 2003-8-15 11:20:11 AM|| 2003-8-15 11:20:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Are they serious? Well, there are probably at least 1000 members of the extended royal family and at least 5000 Imams who are active and dedicated supporters of terrorism. The number goes up by a almost an order of magnitude if you include financial and other supporters. Of course if you count people who support terrorism against Israel, its probably 95% of the Kingdom.

Posted by mhw 2003-8-15 11:24:24 AM|| 2003-8-15 11:24:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe they should just take turns interrogating each other: "You a terrorist?" "No way. How about you?" "Nah, me neither. Let's get outta here and find some wimmen to beat." "Yeah, maybe we can catch one driving."

Posted by Matt 2003-8-15 11:44:34 AM|| 2003-8-15 11:44:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 12,000? That's all???

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-15 11:46:43 AM|| 2003-8-15 11:46:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 ...12,000 citizens will be questioned at the behest of the United States...

What is this BULLSHIT ?

Yeah, um, our country is teeming with nutjobs trying to overthrow the royal family, but the evil imperial US is MAKING us DO SOMETHING.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-8-15 12:56:58 PM|| 2003-8-15 12:56:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "You a terrorist?" "No way, I only kill infidels."

Posted by Matt 2003-8-15 2:13:11 PM|| 2003-8-15 2:13:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 12,000? Do they have enough mustaches and truncheons to go around? Hate to see some Saudi citizen denied his rights to a speedy and professional "interrogation". ;-o

Posted by Hodadenon 2003-8-15 3:12:54 PM|| 2003-8-15 3:12:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 12,000 won't begin to cover the Royals, much less the nutbags, folks, there are over 7,000 Princes alone. The Royals prolly number at least 45,000 - 50,000.

I'm sure the US gave them a nice list - collating data is what the FBI seems to be pretty good at - so they can start there. And then the Saudis will have their own, unshared, list. Add 'em and get after it. But that's only a start if you want to cleanse Lalaland of the Loonies.

After that, I would hit the "clerics" - and corroborate what they say with interviews with those who frequent that mosque who are proteges of the Royals (there are thousands of families who have sworn allegiance to a family of the Royals - remember this place is well and truly tribal), i.e. they know where their bread gets buttered. Then the education system, top down, corroborating with students from those protege families. These 2 sweeps will yield a crop of the nutbag-trainers and "spiritual" leaders - whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. That'll prolly behead the worst of the future problem - and stop or slow the indoctrination process on their children.

Keep in mind that the Royals are concerned with the security of the Royals. Full stop. Wnere this overlaps with what the US wants is merely convenient serendipity.

I've said it before, but the Izzoids have made a huge blunder: they have attacked on their home turf. Everywhere that gains are being made against them has come from making this mistake. When they were killing others - outside their backyard - it generated a wink and a nudge. Once it came home, it changed, big time.

One other thing to remember regards the Saudi (and maybe the Indo's and others) - there is no independent verification of anything they claim - so take it with a ~~grain of salt~~ cowlick -- and divide any numbers tossed about by 10. They have no relationship with the Truth. Any overlap there is, again, a matter of pure serendipity.

Posted by .com 2003-8-15 4:25:10 PM|| 2003-8-15 4:25:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Well that clears out every mosque, all of the airport baggage workers at Jeddah and all of the editorial staffs at AJ and throw in a few royals for good measure and I think that comes to around 12,000........are they going to throw them into a soccer stadium with lions or better yet wild pigs???

Do they have that much space in the jails?

Posted by SOG475 2003-8-15 5:30:55 PM|| 2003-8-15 5:30:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Investigating Saudi is like doing a D check on an airliner. You open the thing up. Really zip it open and take a look. All you see is screwed up wiring and corrosion everywhere. It does no good to put it back together and fly it. It belongs on static display in a museum.

/analogy

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-8-15 6:05:15 PM|| 2003-8-15 6:05:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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