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2008-12-17 Arabia

'Major Saudi operation foiled Al Qaeda plot against haj'

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Posted by Fred 2008-12-17 09:34|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1 Any relation to Rep. Ellison's making his pilgrimage this year?

Posted by William Marcy Tweed 2008-12-17 14:03|| 2008-12-17 14:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Now why would al-Qaeda attack Haj pilgrims? Sounds like the desperate Sauds need a straw man.

Posted by Ularong Brown6050 2008-12-17 16:09|| 2008-12-17 16:09|| Front Page Top

#3 If you bother to do a bit of research my anonymous commenter, you'd find that Al Qaeda is no friend of the House of Saud. Something about them not regarding the Sauds as the proper Guardians of Mecca. Be quite a loss of honor if something violent happened to the pilgrims.

It's also why some of the princes pay off the group, in a machevellian attempt to keep them from practicing their fanatacism inside the Magic Kingdom

Posted by Pappy 2008-12-17 17:13|| 2008-12-17 17:13|| Front Page Top

#4 It also means that any al-Qaeda the Saudis capture get shortened by a head, literally. The Iranians created havoc during a Haj some years ago, to the same end.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-12-17 17:53|| 2008-12-17 17:53|| Front Page Top

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