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2005-02-03 Arabia

Soddy-trained terror wave sweeping Middle East

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-02-03 12:58:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Jamal Khashoggi, spokesman to the Saudi ambassador to Britain

I don't have time to look it up, but I bet this guy is related to Adnan Khashoggi, arms dealer to the stars. There was a piece on Slate a million moons ago about "Six Degrees of Adnan Khashoggi," and how his sticky fingers show up in every honeypot of the world for the last twenty years or so...

Posted by Seafarious 2005-02-03 1:49:41 AM|| 2005-02-03 1:49:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 That would certainly fit with working for Prince Al Turki, formerly the Saudi Intel Chief and one of the dirtiest players of the Sudairi Seven. He rivals Nayef, IMHO.

Posted by .com 2005-02-03 2:09:07 AM|| 2005-02-03 2:09:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I still maintain the wahhabi inspired terrorism in the ME hasn't crossed the scale and efficiency barrier to make it more than a nuisance (although a locally deadly nuisance). To change governments they have to scale it up by a factor of one or two (X10 to X100). Right now its just a Turkey shoot.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-03 3:05:20 AM|| 2005-02-03 3:05:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Phil, that is because OBL miscalculated. He revealed his cards too soon. And to his detriment, GWB was at the helm, thanks to whatever fortune arranged that. Just imagine how situation would be different if Gore won. It would be far more dramatic than if Kerry won. The result would be the same, eventually, in both cases, but in different time frames.

We are the winning horse at this stage. It could have been otherwise. Still a looong way to go and there may be nasty surprises before this is all over.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-03 3:47:08 AM|| 2005-02-03 3:47:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wow..I did some reading on Adnan Khashoggi who, according to the game of six degrees claims...

was able to link Khashoggi to Iran-Contra, Wedtech, the Marcos Philippine kleptocracy, BCCI, the death of Princess Di, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, and the breakup of the Beatles

and the links are like this (tin foil required)

http://slate.msn.com/id/1006609/
The Breakup of the Beatles is often attributed to tensions that arose when John Lennon and Paul McCartney got married. In an interview this past October on British television, McCartney, now a widower, declared his love for a woman named Heather Mills, who was a toddler at the time of the Beatles' breakup. Had McCartney left his wife Linda for Mills at the time, perhaps the Beatles would have remained together. Prior to dating McCartney, Mills reportedly dated Adnan Khashoggi.

Apparently, if Paul had been a child molester, dating Heather Mills when she was a toddler, the breakup of the Beatles would not have happened.

or this:
BCCI. The most complicated bank scandal in human history. Khashoggi had a big account with BCCI's Monte Carlo branch.

As if every rich Saudi in the world didn't have one there.

They try to link him to Teresa LePore, with causing the Gore election to go to Bush..breezing past the fact that she was a registered Democrat.

It goes on, and you get the idea, but actually the guy is an interesting character who is clearly a very big player in the underworld of arms dealing, shady deals and black markets - which I'm sure at a certain level, is not all that large.

Rather than GW, it looks to me more like it's mafia type connections, as this blurb indicates:

In late September, Van Rijn met with Yard detectives at the British embassy in Madrid. He had with him an old friend, a man he and the detectives had been referring to in telephone conversations as "our friend in Spain." The friend was Felice Cultrera, an amateur art-and-antiquities collector; the owner of casinos in Paris, Belgrade, and Prague; someone who was allegedly linked to the Sicilian drug-running Santapaola Mafia; and a money man for weapons merchant Adnan Khashoggi.

Posted by 2b 2005-02-03 9:22:15 AM|| 2005-02-03 9:22:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 oops...here are some links for above.

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Posted by 2b 2005-02-03 9:29:35 AM|| 2005-02-03 9:29:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I agree with your assessment Sobie. My question is the dark undertone of "He Revealed his cards too soon". What the implication is, if UBL had taken his time and planted more cells and developed his WMD in the training camps in Afghanistan the situation would be more dire? Would UBL have been able to mobilize the "Muslim Street to rise up and violently create the Caliphate? My take on that is that Muslims back a winner. Like in Afghanistan and Pakistan, there is always negotiating before fighting and side flipping (very Kerry-esque). The majority of Muslims loathe the US but will continue to support us against Islamists because the Islamists are not empowered yet. Yes, had UBL not miscalculated and Al Qaeda had time to acquire WMD - many things would be different. I'm afraid we'd have more enemies. We can't allow any of these movements to develop. I fear our previous Admin did very little to counter AQ and look what happened.

Posted by Rightwing 2005-02-03 9:36:06 AM|| 2005-02-03 9:36:06 AM|| Front Page Top

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