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| update: U.S. has quietly expelled dozens of Saudi diplomats | |
| 2004-01-29 | |
| EFL and news - Hat tip to Drudge The United States has ordered the expulsion of dozens of Saudi diplomats suspected of helping promulgate Al Qaida ideology, diplomatic sources said. The State Dept. has refused to either confirm or deny the action.. dozens is much more than we’d heard before? Did somebody get a spine transplant? The State Department revoked the diplomatic credentials of the Saudi diplomats in Washington over the last month in an effort to crack down on Saudi efforts to promote Al Qaida interests in the United States. The diplomatic sources said about 70 diplomats and embassy staffers were expelled in late 2003 and dozens of others were ordered to leave the United States by mid-February. Many of those expelled were said to have worked in the office of the Saudi defense attache.
soon Bandar should be expelled along with the Washington-Whore-lobbyist lawyers he’s hired The State Department has refused to confirm the expulsion of the Saudi diplomats. "I can’t confirm it at this point," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said on Wednesday. "I’ll see if there’s anything I can say for you." "I’m trying to keep my Saudi pension plan" The Saudi diplomats, in a determination made by the FBI and Homeland Security Department, were said to have abused their diplomatic privileges in the United States. The sources said most of the diplomats were responsible for operations of the Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences in America [IIASA] located in Fairfax, Va. which we heard about yesterday IIASA, established in 1988, has provided free training for hundreds of Muslims in the United States in Wahhabi ideology, the basis for Al Qaida. The institute is one of six overseas branches of the main religious university in Saudi Arabia. shut the m-f’ers down! The Washington-based Saudi Information Agency, operated by the Saudi opposition, identified the Saudi diplomats who work at the institute as Fuad Gunaim, Ibrahim Al Kulaib, Abdallah Al Saif, Saleh Al Sunae, Fahd Al Amer, Saab Al Saab, and Yousef Al Shubaily. no Al-Ghamdis?? The U.S. decision to expel the diplomats was said to have stemmed from a Houston, Texas conference in December 2003. The Saudi opposition agency said Saudi diplomats had planned to attend the conference with what it termed "known supporters of Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden. The Saudi embassy canceled its participation in the conference after the Washington Post reported the involvement of the diplomats. The conference was to have been addressed by a senior Saudi cleric Sheik Abdullah Bin Jebreen, who has publicly supported Bin Laden and his war against the United States, the agency said. Jebreen addressed the conference via video link from Riyadh. | |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #6 Charles, we can dream. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-1-30 12:00:46 AM |
| #5 Good first step. Next, expel the Wahhabi Chaplains from the US military and US prison system. |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2004-1-29 11:14:07 PM |
| #4 Honestly, we probably should have killed a few dozen of them very quietly and very nastily. Deliver the remains back to them in zip-loc bags and see if the princes take the hint. If not, make sure they know the boomers are just tooling around the indian ocean, looking for honest work. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-29 10:46:13 PM |
| #3 This makes you think for a minute. We might not be going North(Syria) or East(Iran) after we took out Iraq. We might actually be going South. Sure there's no evidence, but expelling diplomats en masse is the first step before war. This doesn't have a chance of happening, does it? |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-1-29 9:50:58 PM |
| #2 Wonder if this ties in with the visas that were revoked? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-1-29 9:16:53 PM |
| #1 'Hope we made them all swim home. With their luggage. 'But for oil, they would all be ...... |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2004-1-29 7:52:54 PM |