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2005-02-25 Arabia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-02-25 2:48:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let's see - If the Saudis stay home and go boom, they're a threat the the Royal Family. If the Saudis go abroad and go boom, they're no longer a threat.
Name one good reason, beyond empty threats of the American State Department, for the Saud government to keep the kiddies home?

Posted by Thavins Thavirt9269 2005-02-25 9:25:10 AM|| 2005-02-25 9:25:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 when they start beheading Imams, they're serious. Until then, it's a game, and they're lying, not trying

Posted by Frank G 2005-02-25 10:32:11 AM|| 2005-02-25 10:32:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The 19-year-old said he was taken to Baghdad and told to drive a fuel tanker to the upscale Mansour district. He insisted he had no idea the militants intended to detonate the truck with him inside.

What a damned dunce. Members of a terrorist group ask someone to drive a tanker into an upscale residential district, and that guy has "no clue"???

Seems to me that this whole jihadi thing would best be addressed by promptly killing them whenever and wherever they are found.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-02-25 11:13:59 AM|| 2005-02-25 11:13:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 We have to go after the funding sources, and the majority of them, IMHO, come from the Saudi Arabian princes. They are the ones that finance the so-called charities. They are the ones that fund the Madarassas. They are the ones that keep the pot boiling in Thailand, Indonesia, the Phillipines, Chechnya, etc.

Do we have any real leverage on the Saudis, or have they bought too much of this country with their oil wealth and neutralized us from doing the right thing?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-02-25 12:05:44 PM|| 2005-02-25 12:05:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "I was stunned," said al-Shayea of his sonâs role in the explosion, which killed...

I am stunned too. Stunned that the Saudis expect the world to believe their hogwash, blather.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-02-25 12:37:31 PM|| 2005-02-25 12:37:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Do we have any real leverage on the Saudis,

Yes. Technology that makes their oil obsolete - who cares which kind. Solar, wind, ethanol, fuel cells. The sooner we don't need their oil, the sooner these Princes won't have extra money laying around to fund madrassas and jihad.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-25 1:43:45 PM|| 2005-02-25 1:43:45 PM|| Front Page Top

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