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| Game over for Saudi hard boyz? |
| 2004-09-14 |
| More likely there's a new deal in the works, IMO, assuming it hasn't been finalized already. Saudi Arabia is quieter again after a tumultuous summer of unprecedented violence — gun battles, kidnappings, killings and beheading of foreigners — that ripped through this usually tranquil desert kingdom. Most Saudis one meets these days seem confident the worst is now behind them. "It is 95 percent game-over for the terrorists," says Waleed Abalkhail, president of SISCOM, a Saudi E-commerce firm. Pro-al Qaeda insurgents' hoped their summer rampage would shake the establishment and royal family. That would be Muqrin's little campaign that culminated in his eventual demise... |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #2 Knowing what is happening in the MK requires the skills of an astute Kremlinologist of the 1950's. Yes! The good news is look around the 'burg, hell we got posters who write poetry about camels. :> |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-09-14 6:07:57 PM |
| #1 I agree with the last sentence of the article, that the Saudi security forces will be better prepared for the next uptick. Of course. But, -What about outside urban centers? Hail, Al-Jouf, Qassim? IOW, north of Riyadh to Jordan-Iraq border? -What about terrorist funding? Look, this guy did the best he could, I guess, but when you talk to an al-Feisal, an Abakhail (family name of former min of finance IIRC) you're dealing with Saudis who want to make sure the MagK seems more palatable to the outside world. All PR, IOW. I mean, look at the comment on how the bad, bad guys were ones who had learned violence due to their experience in Afghanistan. Now they've been killed, only peaceful saudis are left. Total snow job to a reporter writing for the Western media. Knowing what is happening in the MK requires the skills of an astute Kremlinologist of the 1950's. |
| Posted by: chicago mike 2004-09-14 3:09:08 PM |