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2003-08-31 Arabia

Confessions of a Terrorist - confirmation of Fredâs "Giggle Juice"

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Posted by Frank G 2003-08-31 12:37:00 PM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 on reflection - I should've hat tipped Drudgereport.com, since I don't read Time mag any more and would've missed this on my own. Also, should've posted it in Arabia, since this part of the post is how the rat bastard Princes have screwed us

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-31 12:53:58 PM|| 2003-8-31 12:53:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 ....Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, a Westernized nephew of King Fahdâs and a publisher better known as a racehorse owner. His horse War Emblem won the Kentucky Derby....

Now finish the story with the eradication of said Prince..... oops already happened

dorf

Posted by Anonymous 2003-8-31 1:15:19 PM|| 2003-8-31 1:15:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yea, I thought that guy bit it not to long ago. Maybe he had things to say that some might find uncomfortable, nudge-nudge, wink-wink.

Posted by Lucky 2003-8-31 1:49:11 PM|| 2003-8-31 1:49:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember how queasy I felt watching the governor of Kentucky grinning and gladhanding and congratulating Prince Aziz when War Emblem won the Derby. If I'm not mistaken, Aziz also ran that fair and balanced publication, Arab News.

Posted by seafarious 2003-8-31 2:06:08 PM|| 2003-8-31 2:06:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I should've left another paragraph in:

The last eight paragraphs of the book set up a final startling development. Those three Saudi princes all perished within days of one another. On July 22, 2002, Prince Ahmed was felled by a heart attack at age 43. One day later Prince Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki al-Saud, 41, was killed in what was called a high-speed car accident. The last member of the trio, Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, officially "died of thirst" while traveling east of Riyadh one week later. And seven months after that, Mushaf Ali Mir, by then Pakistan's Air Marshal, perished in a plane crash in clear weather over the unruly North-West Frontier province, along with his wife and closest confidants.

Posted by Frank G 2003-8-31 2:33:49 PM|| 2003-8-31 2:33:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 St Mo's massacre like. The day Michael became the Godfather, no, just keeping family business tidy.

Posted by Lucky 2003-8-31 3:09:14 PM|| 2003-8-31 3:09:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Looks like a clean-up operation to me. Probably realized letting them do this would get them bombed, so they whacked the bastards.

Unfortuneatly, we can't invade Saudi Arabia for several reasons. This will have a huge political fall-out for the Saudi Government though.

No, I doubt that will happen either. Anybody have the number of KKK fanatics? They can go over there, kill they Saudi Royal Family, and get themselves killed in the process. Two birds with one bomb!

Posted by Charles 2003-8-31 4:44:34 PM|| 2003-8-31 4:44:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 And the Berkeley-educated lawyer is adept at marshaling an unwieldy mass of informationâmost of his sources are other books and news storiesâinto a pattern made tidy and linear by hindsight.

I don't have that much respect for anyone who displays this sort of judgementalism: I worked on one of the first computer systems dedicated to all source analysis for in-field military intelligence analysts, and I can tell you, intelligence is a huge mass of uncorrelated data that takes a lot skill and luck to winnow out any patterns that can be acted upon: Up until then, skyjackers weren't suicide bombers, and that would have clouded anyone's interpretation.

IMHO, there was no failure of intelligence: Just a political failure to enforce a zero-tolerance policy on terrorists and terroristic acts. WTC II would not have happened if politicians had had more balls going after Bin Laden after WTC I and the Cole bombing.

Yet when Zubaydah was confronted by the false Saudis, writes Posner, "his reaction was not fear, but utter relief." Happy to see them, he reeled off telephone numbers for a senior member of the royal family who would, said Zubaydah, "tell you what to do."

Gawd, I hope this is true...

Posted by Ptah 2003-8-31 5:26:56 PM|| [S] 2003-8-31 5:26:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Interesting. Does this mean the US can get Saudi princes offed just by letting 'certain people' know we have some evidence?
Dunno about you guys, but that gives me some lovely ideas...

Posted by Kathy K 2003-8-31 8:52:32 PM|| [site-essential.com/] 2003-8-31 8:52:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Looks like some ad agency is about to get very rich doing the new batch of "The Saudis are our Bestest Buddies" ads.
Here's an idea for their new campaign, "Without Saudi Arabia, there'd be no war on terrorism." At least forcing them to shell out some big bucks for this shit is money they can't use to bankroll their loony tunes boomer boys.

Posted by tu3031 2003-8-31 9:34:14 PM|| 2003-8-31 9:34:14 PM|| Front Page Top

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