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2004-07-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-07-14 4:31:45 PM|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Look on the bright side *shovels manure piles aside* maybe all the terrorists will congregate in Saudi Arabia, which will become a target-rich environment.

Maybe I would also like to buy a bridge in Brooklyn.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-07-14 5:03:38 PM|| 2004-07-14 5:03:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I suspect this is a big deal in KSA since this guy called for the overthrow of the Saud dynasty a while back.

"Mr. al-Harby, who is also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makky . . . ."

WTF is it with these people and their "Ahmed, also known as Skippy" names? I am very suspicious of a culture that encourages common use of aliases and false names.

Posted by Tibor 2004-07-14 5:23:33 PM|| 2004-07-14 5:23:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Would the Saudi's give Bin Laden amnesty if he showed up one day?

Posted by yank 2004-07-14 5:33:58 PM|| [politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-07-14 5:33:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 The House of Sa'ud is playing U.S. for suckers.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-14 5:57:42 PM|| 2004-07-14 5:57:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Mark - I would suggest that they have, indeed, played the US for suckers - ever since Feb. 18, 1943, when U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt signed executive order 8926 where we read the following remarkable sentence: "I hereby find the defence of Saudi Arabia is vital to the defence of the United States."

The Special Relationship has held every President of the US in its spell. Remarkably, this was even true during the 1973 Oil Embargo which was direct and unambiguous punishment for saving Israel. So every President has been little more than a pawn and apologist - until now. The First and ONLY President to EVER question, challenge, and begin investigating the Saudis for their duplicity and complicity is George W Bush.

He acted directly against the most apparent and active threats, Afghanistan and Iraq. He did what had to be done to set the stage for the long-term fight. He had support then, because of the price paid on 9/11. But reality is hard for loonies, political zoomies, and the uber-liberal MSM to bear - and they have effectively eroded the support solely to advance partisan and multi-culti agendas - security be damned. Bush will, if re-elected, address the next direct threat, Iran. Bet your ass on it. If not re-elected, sell any stock holdings you have in Israeli companies.

Regards the Saudis, their day is coming, and Bush has formulated a plan, called the Bush Doctrine, which will not only undermine the House of Saud, it will undermine ALL of the ME dictatorships, mullahcracies, and thugocracies.

IF he gets the chance.

If he doesn't, look for a muddle as the Kerry people try to figure out which end is up, where the hell Israel disappeared to, and waste precious time fellating Kofi and every foreign leader who'll unzip. Then look for a few of them to recognize what Bush was doing is, indeed, a long-term solution - maybe the only one since our resources aren't unlimited. Meanwhile, cover your ass, for we will be wide open from November on.

Posted by .com 2004-07-14 6:26:27 PM|| 2004-07-14 6:26:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Tibor---the names so long that they have vanishing points and the multiple names the Arabs give them reflect the tribal nature of their societies. It is not who you are, but what clan did you come from, who's your cousin, how you are related to so-and-so. That is how they live their lives. It is their heritage. They have been doing this for many centuries, at the expense of other things.

In the West, we have a highly focused, linear point of view. Some places still have extended families, who is related to whom, etc. But the western outlook points to someone like this:

J. Robert Oppenheimer---yes, he headed the design team that developed the first atomic bombs. That's it.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-07-14 7:08:47 PM|| 2004-07-14 7:08:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Don't worry. I'm remember the Jooooo Oppenheimer.

Posted by Muhammed Dirac Teller 2004-07-14 7:47:28 PM|| 2004-07-14 7:47:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 .com, I totally agree once Bush is re-elected the Iranian problem will indeed be resolved one way or the other, since the modern jihadic terrorist movement has it's evil roots in post-Shah Iran, dating back to the very day Khomeini exited off that Air France jet on a very cold January day in 1979 to an awaiting frenzied mob of an estimated 2 million diehard followers.

Khomeini's first victim for his 'vision' of the greater Islamic, Shi'ite, Persian Empire was the Lebanon, and today the mullahs puppets, death driven Hizballah control that former banking capitol of the Near-East.

The strategic stepping stones to encircle Iran, were Afghanistan and Iraq. We, not Islamic fanatics are in control of all the old Russian constructed airbases on Afghani soil. The airbase in Herat being very close to Iran's arid eastern sparsely populated Khorasani region. (See link)

On the Iran's oil-rich western front American/British led forces are awaiting orders in Iraq, looking in the direction of Iran's 'Zagros mountainous front'.

My only question is, will American filth columnists (radical leftists) be allowed to create a collaborating diversion for Iranian leaning or al-Qa'ida's planted killers allowing them to stage horrific multi-acts of mass murder prior to the November presidential election ...and ...if Homeland Security measures are breached, allowing a jihadee attacks does take place, will the American voting public react as they did on December 7th 1941 or like Spain's sheep?

In terms of Israel, the very real potential for a lucrative oil industry exists, mostly offshore, but the state of siege resulting from Islamic rooted terror prevents the state from mandated funds for a full scale exploratory effort. When the Iran was governed by the Shah, Israel was supplied with 70% of her imported crude by Iranian exports. We know what happened to that energy deal.

Two last points on Iran, as well as Saudi Arabia; it never cases to amazing me, most people never make the obvious linkage between massive amount of 'jihadic funded derived through Iranian & Sa'udi OPEC oil exports, plus the fact the Wahhabis and Iranian funded 'Islamic centres (mosques) operate in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. & other western nations under a non-profit-tax-free status, where as nothing non-Islamic better not even think about setting up shop in either nation, never-mind tax-free.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-07-14 8:29:30 PM|| [http://www.khorasan.de/e.khorasani.htm] 2004-07-14 8:29:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Mark - Trust me, RBers are on the same wavelength as you. Especially regards the Saudi and Iranian funding of terror, from Wahhabi moskkks to "institutes" to jihadists to Hizbollah, this has long been a topic of debate and general agreement. Your opinions and observations are definitely RB mainstream, bro! You're among definitely among friends!

Posted by .com 2004-07-14 8:39:02 PM|| 2004-07-14 8:39:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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