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OBAMA HAS BENT OVER AND KISSED THE RANCID ASSES OF THE 9-11 INVADERS MORE THAN THE SAUDIS' PARTNER, GEORGE W. BUSH EVER DID!


 
 
 
 
OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED OUR BORDERS TO EASE ILLEGALS OVER THEM, INTO OUR JOBS AND TO VOTE FOR LA RAZA DEMS!
 
HE HAS CONTINUED THE SQUALID POLITICS OF THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY – CARLYLE GROUP (SEE BOOK: House of Bush – House of Saud), AND ETHICALLY SQUALID HILLARY BILLARY’S KISSING UP TO THE FILTHY SAUDIS SO THEY CAN FILL THEIR POCKETS FULL OF THE MONEY THE SAUDIS BLEED US FOR WITH BIG SAUDIS OIL, WHICH ALSO FUNDS INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM!
 
 
 
THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY, i.e., think BUSH-SAUDI CARLYLE GROUP, BILLARY-HILLARY LIBRARY AND BARACK OBAMA HAVE ALL BEEN IN BED WITH THE FILTHY SAUDIS THAT INVADED US 9-11.
 
BILLARY-HILLARY HAVE TAKEN A MASSIVE FORTUNE FROM ALL THE MUSLIM DICTATORS THAT THEY HAVE SIPHONED OFF TO THE BILLARY LIBRARY. IN PARTICULAR THEY'VE FILLED UP ON DIRTY SAUDI MONEY DESPITE THE FACT THAT IT IS ILLEGAL FOR PEOPLE OF JEWISH OR CHRISTIAN FAITH TO BUILD CHURCHES IN SAUDIS LAND!
 
IT WAS NOT THE IRAQIS THAT INVADED US 9-11. IT WAS THE SAUDIS! THE BUSH FAMILY HAS INVADED IRAQ ON BEHALF OF THEIR SAUDIS PARTNERS TWICE!
 
IF THE SAUDIS HAVE THEIR WAY, THEIR BOY OBAMA, AND HILLS WILL INVADE IRAN, WHICH ALONG WITH THE IRAQIS, ARE SAUDIS ENEMIES.
 
THE SAUDIS LOVE THEIR AMERICAN DUPES, THE CLOWNS THAT HAVE RUN THIS NATION INTO THE GROUND, IN PART FOR BIG BUSH SAUDIS OIL ALONG WITHE BUSH SAUDIS CARLYLE GROUP.
 
EVEN THE BUSH CRIME FAMILY HAS NOT DONE AS MUCH FOR THE SAUDIS INVADERS AS BARACK OBAMA! WE ALL CRINGED WHEN OBAMA KNELT AND KISSED THE HEM OF THE ROYAL LARDBUCKET DICTATOR OF SAUDIS LAND!
 
BARACK OBAMA, WHO IS NOTHING MORE THAN BUSH'S THIRD TERM, MADE IT ILLEGAL FOR AMERICANS TO SUE THE SAUDIS INVADERS! HE'S KISSED UP THE SAUDI ASS, WAITING FOR THE SAUDI DICTATORS' MONEY FOR HIS LIBRARY LIKE BUSH AND HIS FAMILY AND HILLARY BILLARY.
 
THERE ARE ONLY A DOZEN PEOPLE THAT HAVE MADE VAST FOTUNES BETRAYING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON BEHALF OF MUSLIM DICTATORS!
 
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Television
* President Obama spends the day in Saudi Arabia ahead
of what the White House says will be a major speech in Egypt
tomorrow on U.S.-Muslim relations. Critics say the president
should not be delivering this speech in Egypt... which is led
by one of the country’s longest serving autocrats ever. That’s
the subject of our face off debate tonight.
 
Obama accused of siding with Saudi princes and against 9/11 family members
 
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9/11 families say Obama is bowing to Saudi interests
 
The group 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorismreleased a statement last night in response to the U.S. Solicitor General’s decision against supporting their request to be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court (Thomas E. Burnett, Sr., et al. v. Al Baraka Investment & Development Corp., et al., Case No. 03-CV-9849 (RCC) In Re: Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001, MDL 1570)
 
The group believes that the case would bankrupt and cripple terrorist funding around the world, preventing future attacks.

The statement accuses the Obama Administration of siding with“…a group of Saudi princes and against the right of American citizens -- 9/11 family members -- to have our day in court. Let there be no doubt: The filing was political in nature and stands as a betrayal of everyone who lost a loved one or was injured on September 11, 2001.”
The group believes; “The Administration's filing mocks our system of justice and strikes a blow against the public's right to know the facts about who financed and supported the murder of 3,000 innocent people. It undermines our fight against terrorism and suggests a green light to terrorist sympathizers the world over that they can send money to al Qaeda without having to worry that they will be held accountable in the U.S. Courts for the atrocities that result.”
 
The statement continues, calling the Administration’s decision unprincipled and political; “The Administration apparently gave less weight to the principles of justice, transparency, accountability and security, which our case embodies, and more weight to political concerns and pleadings of a foreign government on the behalf of a handful of members of its monarchy and others who stand accused of financing the attacks that murdered our loved ones. Sadly, although the Administration's obviously politically based filing is merely informational and in no way binding on the Supreme Court, if the Supreme Court were to follow it, these people will avoid being held accountable not because they are innocent, but because they are royalty.”

The statement concludes:
 
“The Administration's filing is all the more troubling in that it expressly acknowledges that the courts below applied incorrect legal standards in dismissing the Saudi defendants, but nonetheless argues that the case -- one that seeks to account for the terrorist attacks against America and the murder of our family members -- does not warrant the Supreme Court's time. Contrary to the view expressed by the Obama Administration in the solicitor general's filing, the victims of the September 11th attack deserve to have their claims decided under accurate legal standards.

For all of these reasons, we urge the Supreme Court to reject the solicitor general's politically-premised filing, along with its wrongheaded priorities, accept our petition, and grant us our fundamentally American right to have our day in Court.”
 
The statement was released by 9/11 family members Mike Low, Father of Sara Elizabeth Low, AA Flight 11; Bill Doyle, Father of Joseph M. Doyle, WTC North Tower; Tom & Beverly Burnett, Sr., Parents of Thomas E. Burnett, Jr., UA Flight 93; and Terry Strada, Wife of Thomas Strada, WTC North Tower on Behalf of the 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism.
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IN BED WITH THE SAUDIS INVADERS
Ex-White House counter-terror chief charges CIA shielded 9/11 hijackers
 
By Bill Van Auken
13 August 2011
 
The former chief White House counterterrorism adviser in both the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations charges in a recently released interview that the CIA deliberately concealed the presence in the United States of two Saudi members of Al Qaeda who subsequently participated in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
 
“There was a high level decision in the CIA ordering people not to share that information,” Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism “czar” said in the October 2009 interview that was released this week by the makers of an upcoming documentary entitled “Who is Richard Blee?” Blee is a CIA officer who headed the agency’s Osama bin Laden unit in the period leading up to 9/11.
 
Asked at how high a level such a decision would have been made, Clarke responded, “I would think it would have to be made by the director,” referring to then-CIA Director George Tenet.
 
Tenet has responded to the charges in a joint statement issued with Blee and Cofer Black, the former head of the CIA’s counterterrorism center, who went on to become a top official at Blackwater and other private intelligence/security companies. They called Clarke’s charges “reckless and profoundly wrong.” They went on to claim that they had been exonerated of any wrongdoing exhaustively by the 9/11 Commission, the Congressional Joint Inquiry and the CIA Inspector General’s report.
 
All of these probes served essentially to whitewash the role of government agencies in the 9/11 events. Referring to their own participation in these investigations, the three former CIA officials wrote, “We testified under oath about what we did, what we knew and what we didn’t know. We stand by that testimony.”
 
According to the documentary makers, when informed of the statement, Clarke said that he maintained the positions expressed in the 2009 interview.
 
In that interview, Clarke, asked if he had questioned Tenet and the other top CIA officials about the concealed information, responded, “They got away with it. They’re not going to tell you even if you waterboarded them.”
 
The CIA had been following the two Al Qaeda operatives—Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar—as early as 1999. The first of the 9/11 hijackers to enter the US, they were ultimately identified as two of those aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11.
 
Working together with Malaysian intelligence, the CIA monitored their activities and videotaped them when they attended a 2000 planning meeting of Al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital.
 
They subsequently flew to Thailand, where the CIA claimed it had lost track of them, and then boarded a flight to the US, arriving in Los Angeles on January 15, 2000.
 
While the CIA was aware that one of the two Al Qaeda members had obtained a US visa, it made no attempt to alert the FBI or the US State Department in order to have their names placed on a“terrorist watch list” so that they could be apprehended or at put under surveillance upon entry into the US.
 
In the 13-minute videotaped interview posted by the makers of the upcoming documentary on their web site, secrecykills.com, Clarke suggests that the CIA shielded the Al Qaeda members from the scrutiny of other agencies because its aim was to “flip” them, recruiting them as informants inside the terrorist group. He describes this theory as “the only conceivable reason that I’ve been able to come up with” as to why the CIA would fail to inform the FBI or even the White House about their presence inside the US.
 
He noted that, had the FBI learned of the presence of the two Saudis inside the US, they would have come under its jurisdiction, interfering with the supposed CIA plans to recruit and run them as its own “assets.” Clarke further speculated that the agency worked through Saudi intelligence as a means of circumventing the legal restrictions on CIA operations inside the US.
 
Clarke dismissed Tenet’s claims that he was unaware of the intelligence on the two Al Qaeda operatives. “George Tenet followed all the information about Al Qaeda in microscopic detail,” he said in the interview. “He read raw intelligence reports before analysts in counterterrorism did, and he would pick up the phone and call me at 7:30 in the morning to talk about them.”
 
Clarke said that while he had originally thought that the failure to alert other agencies about al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar had been a case of “one lonely CIA analyst” failing to recognize the importance of the information, he now knows that “No, fifty, 5-0, CIA personnel knew about this. Among the fifty people in CIA who knew these guys were in the country was the CIA director.”
 
He further charged that his not being made aware of this intelligence could only be the result of a direct order to stop the information from reaching the White House. “Unless someone intervened to stop the normal automatic distribution [of intelligence files], I would automatically get it.”
 
“For me to this day,” he added, “it is inexplicable why, when I had every other detail about everything related to terrorism, that the director didn’t tell me, that the director of the counterterrorism center didn’t tell me, that the other 48 people inside CIA that knew about it never mentioned it to me or anyone in my staff in a period of over 12 months … We therefore conclude that there was a high-level decision inside CIA ordering people not to share that information.”
 
As damning as his conclusions are, Clarke’s theory may be, in fact, one of the more “charitable” explanations of the CIA’s silence on the presence of the two Al Qaeda members in California.
 
The two enjoyed high-level protection from the moment of their arrival in early 2000. They were met at the airport by one Omar al-Bayoumi, an employee of the Saudi civil aviation authority, who US investigators concluded was an agent of Saudi intelligence. According to press reports, they received thousands of dollars in funding funneled to them by Princess Haifa, the wife of Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador in Washington and a close confidante of the Bush family.
 
The two were able to live openly in the US, using credit cards in their names, with one of them even having a listing in the telephone directory. And they took flight lessons.
 
Between their initial entry in January 2000 and September 11, 2001, al-Mihdhar was able to fly out of the country and back in again with no difficulty. Al-Hazmi, meanwhile, was able to renew his visa.
 
Shortly after their arrival, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar moved into the San Diego, California home of Abdusssatar Shaikh, who was a paid informant of the FBI, charged with monitoring activities of Islamist groups in the area. The FBI subsequently attempted to conceal the close relation formed by its informant with the hijackers. When a joint congressional committee attempted to subpoena Shaikh, the FBI flatly refused, saying that the Bush administration would not allow it.
 
Former Florida Democratic Senator Bob Graham, who was chairman and then ranking minority member of the Senate intelligence panel, wrote in his book Intelligence Matters of this unprecedented defiance of a congressional subpoena: “We were seeing in writing what we had suspected for some time: the White House was directing a cover-up.”
 
In the film interview, Clarke also points to two key meetings held in the run-up to 9/11. The first was a meeting sought by CIA Director Tenet, with then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice on July 10, 2001, in which Tenet and CIA counterterrorism director Black warned that Al Qaeda was preparing an attack on US interests, possibly in the US itself.
 
Clarke noted that in the course of this meeting the two failed to provide the “most persuasive information you’ve got,” i.e., they “never once mentioned that already two Al Qaeda terrorists known to be involved in the Kuala Lumpur planning session had entered the United States.”
 
He also cited a September 4, 2001,“principals” meeting of senior officials involved in national security in which, once again, there was no mention by the CIA director of the two known Al Qaeda operatives within the US, even though by this time lower-level FBI officials had been informed. Clarke said that there was one obvious reason for the silence. If it had been reported, it would have raised sharp questions as to how long the CIA had known about the two and why they had not reported it earlier. It would have triggered an immediate investigation into “malfeasance and misfeasance” by the US intelligence agency, he said.
 
Had the information been provided even at that date, just a week before the terror attacks, the former counterterrorism advisor said, the two Al Qaeda members would have been arrested and the 9/11 plot likely disrupted. “There’s no doubt in my mind, even with only a week left,” Clarke said. “They were using credit cards in their own names. They were staying in the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square, for heaven’s sake … those guys would have been arrested within 24 hours.”
 
Whatever the validity of Clarke’s theory about the CIA trying to recruit al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar, the eruption of a bitter controversy between the former White House counterterrorism adviser and the former CIA director and other senior agency officials only underscores that, nearly a full decade after the attacks, there has been no genuine independent investigation of the terrible events of 9/11. Moreover, not a single US official has been held responsible for what ostensibly stands as the most catastrophic intelligence failure in American history.
 
This determined cover-up, begun by the Bush administration and continued under Obama, poses the most critical unanswered question. Was 9/11 the result of disastrous and potentially criminal miscalculations by those at the top of the CIA, or was it the outcome of a conscious decision by elements within the US state to allow a terrorist attack to take place on American soil with the aim of creating a pretext for implementing long-prepared plans to launch wars of aggression abroad and sweeping attacks on democratic rights at home?
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OBAMA WILL ALWAYS SERVICE THE STATUS QUO! BANKSTERS DONORS, WALL ST. PILLAGERS, MUSLIM DICTATORS, LA RAZA OPEN BORDERS FOR DEPRESSED WAGES!
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The US-backed monarchy has arrested scores of its opponents in recent months, charging them as “terrorists.” Political opponents have been subjected to savage torture to force them to sign false confessions. Opposition web sites, newsletters and publications have been shut down by the regime.
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HOW MUCH HAS THE HILLARY BILLARY LIBRARY TAKEN FROM SAUDI ROYAL WAHHABI TERRORIST? MILLIONS!!!
HOW MUCH HAS BIG BUSH SAUDIS CARLYLE OIL TAKEN FROM SAUDIS ROYAL WAHHABI TERRORIST?
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HOW MANY WARS AGAINST SAUDIS ROYAL WAHHABI TERRORIST ENEMIES, i.e., SADDAM HUSSEIN HAS BUSH, HILLARY-BILLARY- OBAMA WAGED?
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HOW MUCH LOOT DOES OBAMA EXPECT FOR KISSING SAUDI ROYAL WAHHABI TERRORISTS’ ASS FOR HIS LIBRARY?
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ISN’T IT TIME WE CLIMBED OUT OF BED WITH MUSLIMS FASCIST TERRORIST DICTATORS?
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DON’T EXPECT OBAMA TO! HE AND HILLARY ARE BANKROLLING THE AFGHAN DRUG ADDICT PRESIDENT, WHILE HE PROTECT THE SAUDIS WAHHABIST ASSES FROM SADDAM!
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Mass protests spread in Middle East as Washington reassures Israel, Arab dictators
By Bill Van Auken
15 February 2011
Inspired by the Egyptian people’s overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, protests continued to spread in the Middle East on Monday, as Washington scrambled to reassure Israel and pro-US regimes in the region of its continued support.
For a fourth straight day, demonstrators in cities throughout Yemen clashed with security forces and mobs of plainclothes policemen and hired thugs posing as supporters of the US-backed government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
In the capital city of Sana’a, the anti-government demonstrations grew in size on Monday. The AFP news agency said that over 3,000 people attempted to march towards the city’s Tahrir (Liberation) Square to demand the ouster of President Saleh, who has ruled the country for more than 32 years.
As they neared the square, they were attacked by riot police using batons, rifle butts and electric cattle prods. Mobs of plainclothes police thugs then attacked demonstrators with daggers and broken bottles.
Among those demonstrating were the country’s lawyers dressed in black robes. The protesters chanted, “The people want the regime to step down,” “leave Saleh” and “After Mubarak, Ali.”
Also on Monday, the police and thugs broke up a demonstration of several hundred students at Sana’a University. Security forces have blocked key streets with razor wire to prevent protesters from marching on the presidential palace.
Scores were reported injured in the repression, some of them suffering stab wounds. Many more have been detained by the security forces.
“Police and bullies hurled stones at the protesters fed up with bad living conditions, high unemployment rates, widespread corruption at the public institutions and oppression,” the Yemen Post reported. “They also beat them with stun batons, and police also fired live ammunition in the air in an attempt to disperse the protesters.”
In the southern city of Taaz, at least a dozen people were injured in attacks by police firing tear gas and assaulting protesters with electric batons.
In the southern port city of Aden, dock workers, who have waged a long battle against the regime, took the lead, storming the offices of the Yemen Gulf of Aden Port Corporation and seizing top officials, including the agency’s chairman, Mohamed Bin Aefan.
“We have had it with corrupt officials and it’s time to tell them to leave,” Ali Bin Yehya, a port worker told Al Jazeera. “What happened in Egypt and Tunisia motivated the workers to demand their rights.”
The Saleh regime has pursued the same tactic as Mubarak’s dictatorship in Egypt, ordering police to assault journalists in an attempt to block any coverage of the repression. BBC correspondent Abdullah Gorab reported live on Monday: “I’m bleeding from my head. The policemen who were accompanying a prominent official figure, Hafez Meayad, were running after me after they asked more than 50 protesters from the ruling party to hit us. They took my phone and my cameramen’s phone. They beat any correspondent who tries to film the attack on the protesters. This is the current regime now in Yemen. No rule, no law. I’m bleeding now as I escape from the police.”
The demonstrations have escalated despite the agreement of opposition parties to accept Saleh’s offer of“dialogue.” In response to growing unrest and the example of the Egyptian uprising, the Yemeni dictator announced that he was dropping his bid to change the country’s constitution to allow him to become “president for life,” and pledged that his son, the chief of the Republican Guard, would not succeed him. Opponents of the regime, however, point out that similar pledges were made in 2006 and then forgotten.
At the same time, the regime’s National Defense Council has unveiled plans for a new law giving it unfettered power to tap phone lines, open mail and monitor electronic communications, provoking even greater popular anger.
The poorest country in the Arab world, Yemen has an unemployment rate of around 40 percent, with some 45 percent of its nearly 20 million people living on $2 a day or less. These appalling conditions have been exacerbated in recent months by a sharp rise in food prices.
Already facing a separatist movement in the south of the country and a protracted armed conflict with Shia forces in the north, Yemen has been the focus of an escalating US military and CIA intervention, ostensibly directed against Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula.
Even as repression mounts in Yemen, the US military is expanding its training of Yemeni security forces. Citing Pentagon sources, the Associated Press reported Monday that Washington is launching a $75 million program to train Yemen’s counter-terror troops, a force now numbering 300. The program is designed to double the size of the force, which is a key component of Saleh’s repressive apparatus.
Demonstrations also erupted Monday in the Persian Gulf island kingdom of Bahrain, which serves as the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet and the Pentagon’s Naval Forces Central Command. The “Day of Rage” called by opponents of the Sunni monarchy which rules the predominantly Shia territory saw clashes erupt in two Bahraini villages as security forces imposed an intense crackdown.
Dozens of people were injured Sunday night and Monday as police sought to break up protests using teargas, rubber bullets and clubs. In the village of Nuweidrat, police attacked some 2,000 people who sat down in the street demanding the release of Shiite detainees and an end to the oppression of the majority population.
The US-backed monarchy has arrested scores of its opponents in recent months, charging them as “terrorists.” Political opponents have been subjected to savage torture to force them to sign false confessions. Opposition web sites, newsletters and publications have been shut down by the regime.
Shiites in Bahrain, while making up 70 percent of the population and 80 percent of the workforce, face discrimination in terms of jobs and housing and are severely underrepresented in a largely powerless parliament. They are barred from employment by the country’s largest employer, the security forces, which imports Sunni Muslims from abroad and then grants them citizenship as a reward for repressing the population.
The eruptions in Bahrain are of particular concern to the Saudi monarchy, Washington’s key ally in the region. The Saudi regime oppresses its own Shia population, which constitutes the majority in the country’s oil-producing Eastern Province.
The regime in Bahrain is, if anything, more ossified than that of Mubarak in Egypt. Power is concentrated in the hands of King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa and the country’s prime minister, Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, the king’s uncle, who has held the post for nearly 40 years.
In a desperate bid to bribe the population into halting the protests, the al-Khalifa family dynasty has promised to award 1,000 dinars ($2,650) to every family in Bahrain and has suggested that it may release minors who have been imprisoned since a crackdown last year. It has also said it will rescind plans for budget cuts, demanded by international lending agencies, and instead spend another $417 million on food subsidies.
As the demonstrations spread throughout the Arab world, Washington focused its efforts on reassuring its principal ally in the region, Israel, as well as the remaining US-backed Arab dictatorships that they can rely on US support.
Admiral Mike Mullen, chief of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Jordan on Sunday for talks with King Abdullah II and his Jordanian counterpart, Lieutenant General Meshaal Al-Zabn. He then went to Israel for discussions with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Shimon Peres and the chiefs of the Israeli military.
On the eve of the visit, a Pentagon spokesman said that the chief US military officer would discuss “security issues of mutual concern and reassure both these key partners of the US military’s commitment to that partnership.” The key “concern” is quelling the Egyptian revolution and preventing its spread throughout the region.
Mullen told the Israelis, “our relations with the Egyptian army haven’t changed. Friendship at such a challenging time is very important.”
For his part, Netanyahu said on Monday that “an earthquake is shaking the Arab world,” and that Israel’s nuclear-armed military is “ready for all eventualities.” He described the Israeli military as“the foundation of our existence.”
Mullen’s tour was supplemented by a visit to Amman by Undersecretary of State Bill Burns. President Obama was reported to have called the Jordanian king, while Vice President Joe Biden was on the phone over the weekend to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has also faced mounting demonstrations over unemployment, living conditions and corruption, and to the ruling emirs in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
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OBAMA, BUSH, HILLARY AND BILLARY… ALL KISSING THE ASSES OF MUSLIMS DICTATORS!
US SUpreme Court declines to hear case of 9/11 families
By Joe Kishore
30 June 2009
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case brought by families of 9/11 victims against Saudi Arabia, four members of the Saudi royal family, a Saudi bank and a charity. The action lets stand a lower court ruling that the Saudi members cannot be held liable in US courts.
The Obama administration supported the Saudi monarchs, who were accused of financially supporting several of the individuals involved in the September 11, 2001 attacks. The administration last month intervened to ask the high court to reject the appeal.
The family members claim that Saudi princes contributed to charities that funded Al Qaeda and the 9/11 hijackers.
In August 2008, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan upheld a 2006 district court ruling that the Saudi officials and entities were protected under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. The families argued that lower courts had made conflicting rulings on the scope of sovereign immunity, and that the Supreme Court should therefore intervene.
The Justice Department has sought furiously to prevent the release of documents assembled by lawyers for the families, which, according to a New York Times report,“provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family.” The government has had copies of the documents destroyed and has sought to prevent judges from even looking at them.
The US government has worked systematically to conceal from the American people evidence of Saudi support for at least two of the hijackers, part of a broader cover-up of the many unanswered questions that still surround the 9/11 attacks.
The documents gathered by the 9/11 families—including a classified section of the 2003 joint congressional inquiry into the attacks—likely include material on Nawaf al-Hamzi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, two Saudi nationals who were aboard the planes that crashed on 9/11. They were known by US intelligence to be members of Al Qaeda at least since 1999.
Despite their previous association, the two men were allowed into the US, where they found accommodations with the help of a Saudi intelligence agent (Omar al-Bayoumi) and, later, an FBI asset (Abdussattar Shaikh). Al-Bayoumi received financing from Princess Haifa, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar.
The suit filed by the families focuses solely on the role of Saudi Arabia. However, the more fundamental question is the role of sections of the American state. The Saudi royal family has had long and intimate ties with American intelligence, and the broader exposure of Saudi links to the attacks threatens to unravel the entire official story of the September 11 attacks.
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Obama administration seeks to quash suit by 9/11 families
By Barry Grey
26 June 2009
The Obama administration has intervened to quash a civil suit filed against Saudi Arabia by survivors and family members of victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The suit seeks to hold the Saudi royal family liable, charging that it provided financial and other support to Al Qaeda and was thereby complicit in the hijack bombings that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York and Washington DC.
According to an article by Eric Lichtblau in the June 24 New York Times, documents assembled by lawyers for the 9/11 families “provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family.” However, the article states, the documents may never find their way into court because of legal challenges by Saudi Arabia, which are being supported by the US Justice Department.
The administration is taking extraordinary measures to kill the suit and suppress the evidence of Saudi support for Al Qaeda and complicity in the 9/11 attacks. Last month, the Justice Department sided in court with the Saudi monarchy in seeking to halt further legal action. Moreover, it had copies of American intelligence documents on Saudi finances that had been leaked to lawyers for the families destroyed, and is now seeking to prevent a judge from even looking at the material.
 
OBAMA HAS SOLD OUR NATIONAL SECURITY OUT FOR MEXICAN TERRORISTS AND SAUDIS TERRORIST
HE NEEDS THE LA RAZA ILLEGALS' VOTES, AND SAUDIS MONEY FOR HIS LIBRARY!
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders (Article)
Cash Flow to Terrorists Evades U.S. Efforts
WASHINGTON— Nine years after the United States vowed to shut down the money pipeline that finances terrorism, senior Obama administration officials say they believe that many millions of dollars are flowing largely unimpeded to extremist groups worldwide, and they have grown frustrated by frequent resistance from allies in the Middle East, according to secret diplomatic dispatches.
The government cables, sent by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and senior State Department officials, catalog a list of methods that American officials suspect terrorist financiers are using, including a brazen bank robbery in Yemen last year, kidnappings for ransom, the harvesting of drug proceeds in Afghanistan and fund-raising at religious pilgrimages to Mecca, where millions of riyals or other forms of currency change hands.
While American officials have publicly been relatively upbeat about their progress in disrupting terrorist financing, the internal State Department cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and made available to several news organizations, offer a more pessimistic account, with blunt assessments of the threats to the United States from money flowing to militants affiliated with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other groups.
A classified memo sent by Mrs. Clinton last December made it clear that residents of Saudi Arabia and its neighbors, all allies of the United States, are the chief financial supporters of many extremist activities. “It has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority,” the cable said, concluding that “donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide.”
The dispatch and others offered similarly grim views about the United Arab Emirates (“a strategic gap” that terrorists can exploit), Qatar (“the worst in the region” on counterterrorism) and Kuwait (“a key transit point”). The cable stressed the need to “generate the political will necessary” to block money to terrorist networks — groups that she said were “threatening stability in Pakistan and Afghanistan and targeting coalition soldiers.”
While President George W. Bushfrequently vowed to cut off financing for militants and pledged to make financiers as culpable as terrorists who carried out plots, President Obama has been far less vocal on the issue publicly as he has sought to adopt a more conciliatory tone with Arab nations. But his administration has used many of the same covert diplomatic, intelligence and law enforcement tools as his predecessor and set up a special task force in the summer of 2009 to deal with the growing problem.
While federal officials can point to some successes — prosecutions, seizures of money and tightened money-laundering regulations in foreign countries — the results have often been frustrating, the cables show. As the United States has pushed for more aggressive crackdowns on suspected supporters of terrorism, foreign leaders have pushed back. In private meetings, they have accused American officials of heavy-handedness and of presenting thin evidence of wrongdoing by Arab charities or individuals, according to numerous cables.
Kuwaiti officials, for example, resisted what they called “draconian” measures sought by the United States against a prominent charity and dismissed allegations against it as “unconvincing,” according to one cable.
The documents are filled with government intelligence on possible terrorist-financing plots, like the case of a Somali preacher who was reportedly touring Sweden, Finland and Norway last year to look for money and recruits for the Shabab, a militant group in Somalia, or that of a Pakistani driver caught with about $240,000 worth of Saudi riyals stuffed behind his seat. One memo even reported on a possible plot by the Iranians to launder $5 billion to $10 billion in cash through the Emirates’ banks as part of a broader effort to “stir up trouble” among the Persian Gulf states, though it was not clear how much of the money might be channeled to militants.
One episode that set off particular concern occurred in August 2009 in Yemen, when armed robbers stormed a bank truck on a busy downtown street in Aden during daylight hours and stole 100 million Yemeni riyals, or about $500,000. American diplomats said the sophistication of the robbery and other indicators had all the markings of a Qaeda mission. “This bold, unusual operation” could provide Al Qaeda “with a substantial financing infusion at a time when it is thought to be short of cash,” a dispatch summarizing the episode said.
Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen, known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is seen as a rising threat by the United States and was blamed for a parcel bomb plot in October and the failed attempt to blow up a jetliner last Dec. 25. The cables do not make clear whether the finances of the Yemen group are tied to Osama bin Laden’s network.
American officials appear to have divided views on the bin Laden group’s fund-raising abilities. A February cable to Richard C. Holbrooke, the administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said that“sensitive reporting indicates that al-Qaida’s ability to raise funds has deteriorated substantially, and that it is now in its weakest state since 9/11.”
But many other cables draw the opposite conclusion and cite the group’s ability to generate money almost at will from wealthy individuals and sympathetic groups throughout the Middle East while often staying a step ahead of counterterrorism officials.
“Terrorists avoid money transfer controls by transferring amounts below reporting thresholds and using reliable cash couriers, hawala, and money grams,” a recent cable warned. “Emerging trends include mobile banking, pre-paid cards, and Internet banking.”
The documents suggest that there is little evidence of significant financial support in the United States or Europe for terrorist groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan, despite a string of deadly but largely low-budget attacks in London and other European cities in recent years, according to the documents.
“U.K. financing is important, but the real money is in the Gulf,” a senior British counterterrorism official told a Treasury Departmentofficial, according to a cable last year from the American Embassy in London.
In hundreds of cables focusing on terrorist financing, the problem takes on an air of intractability, as American officials speak of the seeming ease with which terrorists are able to move money, the low cost of carrying out deadly attacks, and the difficulty of stopping it. Interdictions are few, and resistance is frequent.
In Kuwait, for instance, American officials have voiced repeated concerns that Islamic charities — largely unregulated by the government there — are using philanthropic donations to finance terrorism abroad. But a Kuwaiti minister, in a meeting last year with the United States ambassador, “was as frank and pessimistic as ever when it came to the subject of apprehending and detaining terror financiers and facilitators under Kuwait’s current legal and political framework,” a memo summarizing the meeting said.
Saudi Arabia, a critical military and diplomatic ally, emerges in the cables as the most vexing of problems. Intelligence officials there have stepped up their spying on militants in neighboring Yemen, and they provided the tip that helped uncover the recent parcel bombs. But while the Saudis have made some progress,“terrorist funding emanating from Saudi Arabia remains a serious concern,”according to a cable in February. Mrs. Clinton’s memo two months earlier said Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba and other groups “probably raise millions of dollars annually from Saudi sources, often during Hajj and Ramadan.” Officials said they believed that fund-raisers for extremist groups had often descended on the pilgrims to seek money for their causes.
The American Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, reported in February that the Saudis remained “almost completely dependent on the C.I.A.” for leads and direction on terrorist financing.
So it was not surprising that a month earlier, the embassy reported in a separate cable that Treasury Department officials had provided information to the Saudi domestic intelligence service, the Mabahith, on three senior Taliban leaders —Tayyeb Agha, Mullah Jalil and Khalil Haqqani — who had made several fund-raising trips to the kingdom, the cable said. (Like a number of other suspected financiers identified in the cables, the three Taliban leaders do not appear on the Treasury Department’s list of “banned” entities suspected of terrorism financing connections.)
The Americans shared phone numbers, e-mail addresses and passport information for the three men with the Saudis to cross check against Saudi customs databases. Saudi authorities said they were not familiar with the Taliban leaders but promised to pursue the tips.
Last week, American officials said steady pressure from the Bush and Obama administrations had led to significant improvements in fighting terrorist financing. They said, for example, Saudi Arabia was now taking actions that they had long hesitated to take or had resisted, including holding financiers accountable through prosecutions and making terrorist financing a higher priority. A leading Saudi religious scholar has issued an edict against terrorist financing, and the Saudis have created new financial intelligence unit.
“The U.S. government has been relentless in pursuing sources and methods of terrorist financing, including prioritizing this issue with all countries in the gulf region,” said Stuart A. Levey, a senior Treasury official, who was speaking generally about American policy and not about anything in the leaked cables.“As a result, we have put Al Qaeda under significant financial pressure.”
Behind the scenes at diplomatic encounters, tensions have occasionally flared. In 2007, a senior Bush administration official, Frances Fragos Townsend, told her Saudi counterparts in Riyadh that Mr. Bush was “quite concerned” about the level of cooperation from the Saudis, and she brought a personal letter on the subject from the president to King Abdullah, according to a cable summarizing the exchange.
Ms. Townsend questioned whether the kingdom’s ambassador to the Philippines, Mohammed Ameen Wali, might be involved in supporting terrorism because of his involvement with two people suspected of being financiers, the summary said.
Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, challenged the assertion, however, saying the ambassador might be guilty of “bad judgment rather than intentional support for terrorism,” and he countered with an assertion of his own: an unnamed American bank handling the Saudi Embassy’s money in Washington was performing unnecessary audits and asking “inappropriate and aggressive questions.”
American diplomats said that while the Saudis appeared earnest in wanting to stanch the flow of terrorist money, they often lacked the training and expertise to do it.“Their capabilities often fall short of their aspirations,” a cable last November said.
Saudi leaders appear equally resigned to the situation, according to the cables. “We are trying to do our best,” Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who leads the Saudis’anti-terrorism activities, was quoted as telling Mr. Holbrooke, the special representative to the region, in a May 2009 meeting.
But, he said, “if money wants to go” to terrorist causes, “it will go.”
 
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Is Saudi Arabia Waging Resource Aggression Against the American People and the World Economy?!
 
Posted November 8, 2007
 
Imagine waking up to the following nightmare headline "Canada Interdicts the Head Waters of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and All Water Flows From Its Territory Into the Great Lakes." One's reaction would not be passive nor that of our government to such a blatant act of resource aggression. And if you permit a glib interjection, any argumentation that , "well its water on their side of the border" would hold no water whatsoever. The deterioration of relations between the United States and Canada would be immediate, grave, and threatening.
Yet in degree, this is the current status of our resource relationship with the Saudis. Consider the following. On March 5, 2007 in a first page article "Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells", the New York Times reported that Nansen G. Saleri, the head of reservoir management at the state owned Saudi Aramco reported that Saudi Arabia's total reserves were almost three times higher than the kingdom's officially published figure of 260 billion barrels. He estimated the kingdom's resources at 716 billion barrels. Mr. Saleri continued that he wouldn't be surprised if ultimate reserves of Saudi Arabia reached a trillion, (1,000,000,000,000) barrels!
This amazing revelation coming from the reservoir manager of Aramco underlines the degree to which the Saudis have perverted the current world oil market. The Saudis are the putative leaders of OPEC and their capabilities and objectives determine OPEC's policy goals. It is clear as the International Energy Agency phrased it in their recent report, "The greater the increase in the call of oil and gas...the more likely it will be that they will seek a higher rent from their exports and to impose higher prices ... by deferring investment and constraining production."
Saudi Arabia, given its enormous reserves, could readily produce significant additional quantities of oil in order to abate the steep run up of oil prices. At these price levels the fact they and OPEC are maintaining the major portion of their production cuts made at the beginning of this year (OPEC's production cut of 1.7 million barrels/day altered by a production increase of only 500,000 barrels/day starting this month) is smoking gun evidence of their extortionist intent. By holding oil off the market, oil which they clearly have in ample supply, they are gouging the world's economies, pricing their product at levels that have no market rationale whatsoever. They are preying on the world's need for oil. It is an act of resource aggression against the world's consumers much as Canada's hypothetical interference with the headwaters of our major river ways would be an act of aggression against the United States.
Please note in my title I referred to waging resource aggression against the American people. The government was not mentioned because in this imbroglio our administration is in effect Saudi Arabia's, as well as OPEC's and the oil patch's greatest ally. In the near seven years of its Presidency, virtually nothing has been done to constrain Saudi Arabia's policies. On the contrary our President and Vice President are so wedded to the oil industry's interests that the enormous increase in oil prices during their tenure can well be ascribed to willful lack of any forceful policies to counter the Saudi extortion. This has manifested itself in many ways.
Let me just cite a few:
‑ In the near seven years of the Bush presidency, virtually no serious steps have been taken to significantly abate demand for fossil fuels;


‑ The nations Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been used to underpin escalating prices by continuing purchases even as prices exploded, thereby signaling the governments acceptance and approval of these price levels, and worse by declaring the doubling of the Reserve just as crude oil prices were retreating to $50/bbl earlier this year.
‑ Neither through "friendly persuasion" nor as a Dutch Uncle, making Saudi Arabia understand its price and production policies are intolerable. This even though we are in essence the guarantors of last resort of Saudi Arabia's independence as evidenced by the some $100 million dollars a day being expended from this nation's treasury on our naval flotilla stationed off the Saudi Coast in the Arabian Gulf‑ thereby serving as a bulwark against Shia Iran that without our presence would have designs and capabilities against Sunni Saudi Arabia;
‑ By the fawning obsequiousness our high government officials have shown toward Saudi officialdom, (see "The Price of Oil, OPEC and Our Laws and Now Welcome to Vichy" 5.4.06) or be it Price Bandar's open access to the Oval Office while he was Ambassador in Washington and thereafter.
‑ Or as exemplified by the symbolic holding of then Price Abdullah's hand at the Crawford Ranch meeting (see "Cheney in Saudi Land, Don't Hold Abdullah's Hand" 01.16.06; and "President Bush's Most Respectful Letter to King Abdullah on Energy Cooperation" 06.22.06 ) whose coziness resulted in an almost immediate upward ratcheting of oil prices.
The administration's oil industry buddies are ecstatic at the windfall the entire oil sector has reaped by the quadrupling of oil prices to levels undreamed of before the advent of this Presidency, while many of the nations citizens are having their household budgets ripped to shreds in order to meet their home heating bills this coming winter. Rarely if ever in the history of the Republic has there been such a divergence between the nation's interests and those of the vested interests that formed this administration.
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ISLAMOFASCIST that Bush protects and kisses up to!
UNDERSTANDING WAHHABIST INFILTRATION OF AMERICA
 
 November 05, 2007
 
Understanding the Wahhabist Infiltration of America
Frank Salvato
Part of the reason many Americans don’t appreciate the significance of Osama bin Laden’s declarations of war against the United States and the West is because they are completely oblivious to the in‑roads radical Islam has made within the United States. Radical Islamists (i.e., Islamofascists, Wahhabis) understand that the conflict must take place on multiple fronts: militarily, economically, diplomatically and ideologically. Because they understand the complexity of the confrontation and the ability of the West to adapt to challenges – albeit lethargically – they employ multiple tactics in their aggressive pursuit of victory. The West’s addiction to sensationalism, epitomized by our limited attention to detail, unless it plays in the superficial 24‑hour news cycle, facilitates the successful infiltration of radical ideology into Western society.
 


Much to the chagrin of the multicultural and the proponents of diversity, those who promote radical Islamist ideology thrive on the fact that the politically correct culture of the West – and the United States in particular – deems it inappropriate to question religious practices or teachings. With this politically correct “wall of separation” in place little if any scrutiny is given to the information disseminated within any given religious institution. This directly facilitates the ideological advancement of Wahhabism, the most radical and puritanical form of Islam, within the mosques of the United States.
 
To accurately understand the depth of infiltration of the Wahhabist ideology on American soil we need to examine the ideology and how it is advanced within the United States.
 
Wahhabism is a fiercely fundamentalist form of orthodox Sunni Islam. After a brief examination of its tenets it is clear that it is one of division, domination and hate.
 
Wahhabism originated circa 1703 and is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Wahhabists believe that any and all evolution of the Islamic faith after the 3rd century of the Muslim era – after 950 A.D. – was specious and must be expunged. Consequently, Wahhabism is the form of Islam that Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri practice.
 
This radically fundamentalist dogma is fanatically bigoted, xenophobic and lends itself to serve as the catalyst for much of the Islamofascist aggression being perpetrated around the world. It is a wrathful doctrine that rejects the legitimacy of all religious philosophy but its own. Wahhabism condemns Christians, Jews and all other non‑Muslims, as well as non‑Wahhabi Muslims. Wahhabists believe it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate Christians and Jews.
 
It stresses a worldview in which there exist two opposing realms that can never be reconciled ‑‑ Dar al‑Islam, or House of Islam, and Dar al‑Har, or House of War, also referred to as Dar al‑Kufr, House of the Infidel. When Muslims are in the Dar al‑Har, they must behave as if they were operatives in a conflict who have been tasked with going behind enemy lines. The Wahhabist ideology permits Muslims to exist “behind enemy lines” for only a few reasons: to acquire knowledge, to make money to be later employed in the jihad against the infidels, or to proselytize the infidels in an effort to convert them to Islam.
 
Wahhabist doctrine specifically warns Muslims not to imitate, befriend or help “infidels” in any way. It instills hatred for United States because we are ruled by legislated constitutional law rather than by tyrannical Sharia law. Wahhabists are instructed by edict to, above all, work for the creation of an Islamic state where ever they may dwell.
 
It is because of the Wahhabist ideology’s cruel and unyielding fanaticism that we in the United States should be concerned with its prevalence within the mosques of our nation.
 
After the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 – an unprecedented action by the fundamentalists of the Shi’ite sect, the Saudi Arabian government responded by coming to terms with the fundamentalist Wahhabist movement of the Sunni sect. The Saudis, in return for a declaration of non‑aggression, began to finance the construction of mosques in countries around the world. An estimated $45 billion has been spent by the Saudis to finance the building and operational costs of mosques and Islamic schools in foreign countries, including in North America.


Through the funding of mosques, Islamic Centers and their operations, Saudi Arabia is exporting the Wahhabist ideology. It is not unusual to find that the presiding cleric in any given mosque within the United States is a Wahhabist and that his teachings have been sanctioned and financed by the Saudi government and vetted by the Muslim Brotherhood.
 
Two of the more predominant mosques in the United States that have received funding from the Saudi government, and that adhere to the Wahhabist ideology, are the al Farooq mosque in Brooklyn, New York, and the King Fahd mosque in Los Angeles, California. Both mosques welcomed a number of the hijackers who piloted the planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2001.
 
In 2005, Freedom House, a 501(c)(3) organization concerned with the mounting threats to peace and democracy, released a report titled, Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques. This examination of a comprehensive sampling of mosques and Islamic Centers across America shows that literature available in an overwhelming number of them indicates deference for the Wahhabist ideology.
 
Among some of the edicts – or fatwas – issued through this literature:
 
?? “[I]t is basic Islam to believe that everyone who does not embrace Islam is an unbeliever, and must be called an unbeliever, and that they are enemies to Allah, his Prophet and believers.”
 
?? “[O]ur doctrine states that if you accept any religion other than Islam, like Judaism or Christianity, which are not acceptable, you become an unbeliever. If you do not repent, you are an apostate and you should be killed because you have denied the Koran.”
 
?? “Be dissociated from the infidels, hate them for their religion, leave them, never rely on them for support, do not admire them, and always oppose them in every way according to Islamic law.”
 
?? “Never greet the Christian or Jew first. Never congratulate the infidel on his holiday. Never befriend an infidel unless it is to convert him. Never imitate the infidel. Never work for an infidel. Do not wear a graduation gown because this imitates the infidel.”
?? “Those who reside in the land of unbelief out of their own choice and desire to be with the people of that land, accepting the way they are regarding their faith, or giving compliments to them, or pleasing them by pointing out something wrong with the Muslims, they become unbelievers and enemies to Allah and his messenger.”
 
?? “To be true Muslims, we must prepare and be ready for jihad in Allah’s way. It is the duty of the citizen and the government. The military education is glued to faith and its meaning, and the duty to follow it.”
 


With this ideology being taught in mosques across America, there is little reason for speculating as to why hatred exists for American principles, culture and ideology not only within the Islamic community, but among the societally disenfranchised and ideologically vulnerable in the United States who are being indoctrinated into this radical form of Islam.
 
This brings to the forefront a bothersome question. Why aren’t those of the American Fifth Column, who are predisposed to seeking out the haters among us, calling out the Wahhabist bigots who preach their hate in American mosques?
 
We in the West – and especially in the United States – must immediately seek out a greater understanding of not only the basic elements of the threat of radical Islam, but the extent to which it has already infiltrated our society. If we continue to remain ignorant of the facts surrounding this very real war against our way of life, we will lose our nation with nary a shot being fired.
 
 
Related Reading:
 
Freedom House
http://www.freedomhouse.org
 
Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques
http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/45.pdf
 
Basics Project: Terrorism – Ideology
http://www.basicsproject.org/terrorism/ideology.htm#Wahhabism
 
Basics Project: Understanding the Threat of Radical Islam
http://www.basicsproject.org/educational_cd_series.htm#Understanding_the_Threat_of_Radical_Islam
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The British KISS THE FILTHY SAUDI ASS LIKE GEORGE W BUSH and FAMILY
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A SAUDI STATE VISIT: FIVE JUMBO JETS, 100 SERVANTS AND SEVERAL WIVES
A Saudi state visit: five jumbo jets, 100 servants... several wives
By Colin Brown
Published: 31 October 2007
A vast motorcade of gleaming limousines ferried the entourage of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to Buckingham Palace for the state banquet at the start of his official three-day tour.
Five jumbo jets kitted out to the height of luxury were used to airlift the King's entourage to Britain.
In addition to his 23-strong group of all-male personal advisers, which includes 13 members of the Saudi royal family, there were 30 officials ranging from cabinet ministers to economists and specialists in British affairs.
The King was also believed to have brought a handful of wives – he has been married more than 30 times – and 100 servants to attend to his personal needs. And as the octogenarian monarch has had heart problems, he was also thought to have in attendance what has been called a "travelling clinic".


Once safely disembarked, some of the world's richest princes were among 170 VIP guests at last night's glittering banquet at the end of the Mall.
They included the Interior minister, Prince Naif, responsible for law and order and personally concerned with the upkeep of Saudi Arabia's conservative Wahhabi tradition, and the Foreign minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, US-educated and supportive of reform, although anxious it should come from within the kingdom rather than being imposed by outsiders.
Also present were Crown Prince Sultan and his son, Prince Bandar. The crown prince runs the Ministry of Defence and Aviation, and has been heavily involved in negotiating Saudi Arabia's arms deals, not least the Al Yamamah deals with the UK and BAE systems, thought to have been worth $40bn (£20bn) over 20 years and which were subject to a Serious Fraud Office investigation suddenly dropped on the orders of the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, last year.
Prince Bandar, the National Security adviser and Saudi ambassador to Washington for 22 years, was also embroiled in the BAE inquiry. He was alleged to have received $1bn from BAE to sweeten the 1985 Al Yamamah deal. Prince Mohamed bin Nawaf, the Saudi ambassador to London, also attended the banquet.
In a rare concession to formal protocol, Gordon Brown paid £3,000 of taxpayer's money for white tie and tails for the event. He has refused to wear such an outfit for the Chancellor's Mansion House speech in London in June, insisting on a lounge suit instead. "The dress code for the event this evening is set by the Queen and the Prime Minister will abide by the dress code," said the Prime Minister's spokesman yesterday.
 
 
The Huffington Post
 
GETTING REAL WITH SAUDI ARABIA
RAYMOND J LEARSY
With OPEC heads of state and oil ministers meeting in Riyadh this weekend past, with oil prices catapulting toward $100/barrel, the administration petitioned OPEC via Energy Secretary Bodman, to increase production. The almost immediate response to Bodman's entreaty was an immediate rebuff by Saudi Oil Minister Al Naimi advising Bodman there will be absolutely no discussion "on short term supplies by heads of state or their oil ministers at this weekend Riyadh meeting".
 
Given the importance of oil and its price to our economy and the world's, given Saudi Arabia's leadership role within OPEC as the swing producer, given its capabilities (Saudi Arabia/OPEC is willfully holding back 1.2 million barrels of oil production per day from production levels delivered to world markets a year ago) it is altogether reasonable to say that OPEC policy is Saudi Arabia's policy. Certainly it has come to the point where pleading with the Saudis seems futile. Especially now, with oil near $100/bbl, they seem impervious to anything but their own interests. A new relationship is called for. Its preamble and policy points might well be as follows:


The current price of oil is a cartel determined price. You, Saudi Arabia, are the putative leaders of the OPEC cartel and we hold you responsible for the marketplace distortions of this fundamentally important commodity to the world's and our economy. It is a distortion that is an aggression against this nation's economic wellbeing. Therefore we announce this day and until the oil market is returned to true and manipulation free market forces-- We have under negotiation with you together with other OPEC Gulf States a major provision of advanced armaments. These negotiations will cease immediately. We will be pleased to give you phone numbers of our counterparts in Russia should you wish to procure these armaments elsewhere.
- We will immediately stand down one half of the naval task force patrolling the Arabian/Persian Gulf protecting your shoreline at a cost to our treasury of some $100mm/day. As the price of oil continues to escalate, as further quantities are withheld by you from market, we will make further reductions in the task force capabilities.
- We will make it clear that we consider Saudi Arabia withholding oil from world markets an unfriendly act and if our actions in turn result in Iranian hegemony of the Persian/Arabian Gulf, so be it. This with the clear-eyed understanding that given Saudi actions our relations with the Iranians can not be worse then they are in actuality with the Saudis, and at some levels, as on a people to people basis, decidedly better. One need only read the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's report released last week highlighting Saudi Arabia's egregious violations of religious rights and lack of progress on efforts to halt the exportation of extremist ideology and continued practices violating the rights at home of minority Shiite Muslims, non Muslim religious groups and women. Or yesterday's lead story in the NYTimes that the Saudi's are the largest contingent by far of foreign insurgents/suicide bombers in Iraq and that according to American military officials "Saudi citizens provide the majority of financing for Al Queda in Mesopotania." And not to be forgotten, the fifteen Saudi citizens on those planes.
- With prices at these levels and as a signal of our displeasure with Saudi/OPEC actions, we will immediately desist from making further purchases of oil for our Strategic Petroleum Reserve until prices abate significantly.
- As we consider current oil prices a threat to our economy we will begin releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve both to make more oil available to the market and to discipline trading on commodity markets so that one way bets can no longer be taken for granted.
- The Administration will actively work with Congress to pass the NOPEC measure, withdrawing the President's earlier threat of veto, so that the sovereign exemption will be lifted from judicial procedures in American courts thereby permitting process of claims in American courts against OPEC entities for their cartel/monopolistic collusion.
- We will petition the World Trade Organization to actively pursue Saudi Arabia and OPEC member states to desist from their cartel manipulations which contravenes the essence of the WTO mandate.
- We will redouble efforts to reduce domestic consumption of gasoline by introducing programs to changeover automobile fleets to flex fuel, hybrid electric, and on, while mandating wide distribution capabilities for biofuels at gas stations throughout the land.


- As our efforts take hold we will progressively institute a cap on national gasoline consumption thereby reducing dependence on oil imports and mitigating risks to global warming.
- We will encourage Detroit to accelerate efforts building flex fuel/electric vehicles, providing government loans to assist the retooling of Detroit's infrastructure.
- We will make a major commitment to overhaul and building out our mass transportation networks most especially bringing our rail network to par with European standards (trains traveling 200 mph plus) and refurbishing our inland waterways to carry maximum industrial and agricultural traffic.
Given their behavior, it is the time to end our supplicant relationship with Saudi Arabia. It is time for government to act!
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(copy this and mail it to your local filthy Saudi embassy!)
 
SAUDI.... THEY FUCK US OVER, THEN SHOOT US IN THE BACK... hey they’re just Muslims! And in this case WAHHABI FILTHY NAZIS!
 
A young woman in Saudi Arabia ventured out with a male acquaintance. Both were abducted. The woman was raped by seven Muslim men. Her government of oil thugs will lash her two hundred times and put her in prison. Guess she’s lucky they don’t lope off her head. That’s the usual procedure for these filthy Muslim barbarians.
 
Have you see the doc about the filthy Muslim men in Paris, about 80, that gang raped a Muslim woman?
 
How about the filthy Muslim fanatic preaching anti‑western propaganda in a London mosque. They finally shut him down, so he went out in the street, which had to be closed, and preached his rabid hatred there. The fucker supports his eight children on British welfare.
 
There are four million of these Muslims in the United Kingdom. Twenty‑five percent of whom condoned the murder by Muslims in the train terrorist attack. That is one million potential Muslims murderers in London alone.
 
SAUDI
These are the same Muslims that invaded our nation 9‑11.
 
The filthy Saudis play a large part in the BUSH CARLYLE GROUP, which uses White House connections to exploit and pillage in the corporate sector. The Carlyle Group has made billions off deals that sell this nation out. That’s why they kiss the filthy Saudi ass and China’s toxic ass. There’s money to made. Just ask Dianne Feinstein (google Feinstein and China). You won’t find whore Feinstein speaking out about China’s pillage of this nation, or the filthy Saudi export of terrorism and lashing innocent women.
 
Obviously it’s not just Republicans and filthy Saudis that are permitted at the Carlyle Group hog trough. Bush could readily see that Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, as ethically squalid as they come, would be his best bet for a !NO! vote should impeachment come, so Bush invited Feinstein, through her white‑collar criminal husband, Richard C. Blum, to feed at the hog’s trough of Bush war profits. Ever hear of Haliburton? Haliburton has long done business illegally with Muslim Iran, even while Cheney was CEO. Now Haliburton had moved its headquarters to filthy Muslim Dubai.
 
At the Carlyle Group, it was Bush One's lackey, James Baker that was assigned the task of protecting the filthy Saudis from American lawsuits emanating from the filthy Saudi invasion of the United States 9‑11.
 


Immediately after the invasion, while our air ways were closed, Bush ordered special private jets to conduct the filthy Saudis and their playmates, the filthy bin Ladens out of the country and back to filthy Saudi Arabia. My heaven, that plan must have stunk!
 
The BUSH CRIME FAMILY has long been in bed with the filthy Saudis. For Bush it’s all about BIG BUSH SAUDI oil.  And you thought the Bush family was only in bed with AMERIQUEST, WORLDCOM, TYCOR, ENRON......
 
We’ve all paid the price for BUSH BIG OIL pillage, but many don’t seem to connect the dots on Bush and the filthy Saudis fear of ol’ Saddam. The Bush family has now started two (2) wars to PROTECT THE FILTHY SAUDIS from Saddam Hussein.
 
How many American lives have been lost or crippled due to Bush and the filthy Saudis?
 
And yet the filthy Saudis, along with moron Bush, pick our ass’ endlessly. Then the filthy Saudis take some of that profit, and through the fascist Muslim sect of WAHHABI, pay some of this money out to terrorist that head back over to Iraq to murder our men and women over there. They also finance fascist Wahhabi schools here and in the United Kingdom. No wonder we’re losing against the Muslim Nazis. Our own government is abetting them, and protecting them with YOUR LIVES!
 
Yes, it’s a bit hard to connect the dots. We pay our lives to save these filthy Saudis then empty our pockets for Big Bush Saudi Oil, so they can murder us, and others.
 
I think we all know that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. He was invaded only to protect the filthy Saudis and to put billions into the pockets of American war profiteers like Dick Cheney and Dianne Feinstein. With Feinstein’s war profits she went out and added a 17 million dollar mansion to her vast collections she’s acquired while whoreing her elected office.
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'Al Qaeda rolodex' found in Iraq
Story Highlights
60 percent of Iraqi foreign fighters from Saudi Arabia, Libya, documents reveal
Documents detailing names of 700 militants in Iraq seized in U.S. raid
Official calls documents, seized near Syrian border, an "al Qaeda rolodex"
U.S. says both Saudi Arabia, Syria have taken steps to stem flow of foreign fighters
From CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr
WASHINGTON (CNN) ‑‑ As many as 60 percent of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq in the past year have come from Saudi Arabia and Libya, according to documents discovered in a raid in September near the Syrian border, a senior U.S. military official in Baghdad confirmed to CNN Thursday.
 
The documents confiscated in that raid listed the identities of more than 700 foreign fighters in Iraq, whom the United States believes entered that country since August 2006. The official describes the documents as "an al Qaeda rolodex."
 


Scrutinized along with other intelligence in the hands of the U.S. military, the documents show that 60 percent of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq during that time frame came either from Saudi Arabia or Libya, the official said.
 
The United States believes 305 foreign fighters came from Saudi Arabia, and 137 came from Libya.
"These statistics remind us that extremists continue to go to Iraq because they do not want the United States nor the Iraqis to succeed in establishing a democracy there that is an ally in the war on terror," she added.
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Saudi Rights Lawyer Sidelined
License Revoked Over Advocacy for Rape Victim Who Faces Lashing
 By Faiza Saleh Ambah
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 22, 2007; A24
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 21 ‑‑ Saudi officials have revoked the license of human rights lawyer Abdul‑Rahman al‑Lahem, who has handled the country's most controversial cases and defended a gang‑rape victim sentenced to jail time and lashes.
Lahem, 36, faces a disciplinary hearing Dec. 5 to determine the length of his suspension.
Lahem is accused by the prosecutor general of "belligerent behavior, talking to the media for the purpose of perturbing the judiciary, and hurting the country's image," according to an official letter he received Monday.
Lahem said that losing his license would be a blow to the country's budding human rights movement.
"If I am banned from practicing law, nobody will dare go up against the judiciary again," said Lahem, a slight man with a limp from a childhood accident. "If I win, it will open a new chapter for human rights in Saudi Arabia."
Lahem's license was revoked last week by the judiciary in the eastern town of Qatif, where his client, a 20‑year‑old woman, was being sentenced on a morals charge after she was gang‑raped by seven men.
Lahem said he was banned from the courtroom for his refusal in September to allow his client to attend a hearing in which she would have come face to face with her rapists. "She tried to take her life several times after the rape, and I did not want her traumatized all over again," he said. The woman's name has not been published.
The Justice Ministry on Tuesday stood by its decision, saying Lahem was banned from the court for insulting the judiciary, opposing instructions and violating provisions of the law. It did not give details.
 
AMERICAN LIVES GO TO SAVE A FILTHY ABSOLUTE MONARCH WITH 50 WIVES!
 
Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that does not allow political parties or civic rights groups. The official Wahhabi religious establishment follows a strict interpretation of Islam that prohibits unrelated men and women from mingling and does not allow differing schools of thought. The country follows Islamic law, and many laws are not codified, giving judges wide latitude in sentencing.
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IS SAUDI ARABIA WAGING RESOURCE AGGRESSION AGAINST THE AMERICA PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY?
Imagine waking up to the following nightmare headline "Canada Interdicts the Head Waters of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and All Water Flows From Its Territory Into the Great Lakes." One's reaction would not be passive nor that of our government to such a blatant act of resource aggression. And if you permit a glib interjection, any argumentation that , "well its water on their side of the border" would hold no water whatsoever. The deterioration of relations between the United States and Canada would be immediate, grave, and threatening.
Yet in degree, this is the current status of our resource relationship with the Saudis. Consider the following. On March 5, 2007 in a first page article "Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells", the New York Times reported that Nansen G. Saleri, the head of reservoir management at the state owned Saudi Aramco reported that Saudi Arabia's total reserves were almost three times higher than the kingdom's officially published figure of 260 billion barrels. He estimated the kingdom's resources at 716 billion barrels. Mr. Saleri continued that he wouldn't be surprised if ultimate reserves of Saudi Arabia reached a trillion, (1,000,000,000,000) barrels!
This amazing revelation coming from the reservoir manager of Aramco underlines the degree to which the Saudis have perverted the current world oil market. The Saudis are the putative leaders of OPEC and their capabilities and objectives determine OPEC's policy goals. It is clear as the International Energy Agency phrased it in their recent report, "The greater the increase in the call of oil and gas...the more likely it will be that they will seek a higher rent from their exports and to impose higher prices ... by deferring investment and constraining production."
Saudi Arabia, given its enormous reserves, could readily produce significant additional quantities of oil in order to abate the steep run up of oil prices. At these price levels the fact they and OPEC are maintaining the major portion of their production cuts made at the beginning of this year (OPEC's production cut of 1.7 million barrels/day altered by a production increase of only 500,000 barrels/day starting this month) is smoking gun evidence of their extortionist intent. By holding oil off the market, oil which they clearly have in ample supply, they are gouging the world's economies, pricing their product at levels that have no market rationale whatsoever. They are preying on the world's need for oil. It is an act of resource aggression against the world's consumers much as Canada's hypothetical interference with the headwaters of our major river ways would be an act of aggression against the United States.
Please note in my title I referred to waging resource aggression against the American people. The government was not mentioned because in this imbroglio our administration is in effect Saudi Arabia's, as well as OPEC's and the oil patch's greatest ally. In the near seven years of its Presidency, virtually nothing has been done to constrain Saudi Arabia's policies.
 
ON THE CONTRARY OUR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT ARE SO WEDDED TO THE OIL INDUSTRY’S INTERESTS..........
 
On the contrary our President and Vice President are so wedded to the oil industry's interests that the enormous increase in oil prices during their tenure can well be ascribed to willful lack of any forceful policies to counter the Saudi extortion. This has manifested itself in many ways.
Let me just cite a few:
‑ In the near seven years of the Bush presidency, virtually no serious steps have been taken to significantly abate demand for fossil fuels;


‑ The nations Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been used to underpin escalating prices by continuing purchases even as prices exploded, thereby signaling the governments acceptance and approval of these price levels, and worse by declaring the doubling of the Reserve just as crude oil prices were retreating to $50/bbl earlier this year.
‑ Neither through "friendly persuasion" nor as a Dutch Uncle, making Saudi Arabia understand its price and production policies are intolerable. This even though we are in essence the guarantors of last resort of Saudi Arabia's independence as evidenced by the some $100 million dollars a day being expended from this nation's treasury on our naval flotilla stationed off the Saudi Coast in the Arabian Gulf‑ thereby serving as a bulwark against Shia Iran that without our presence would have designs and capabilities against Sunni Saudi Arabia;
‑ By the fawning obsequiousness our high government officials have shown toward Saudi officialdom, (see "The Price of Oil, OPEC and Our Laws and Now Welcome to Vichy" 5.4.06) or be it Price Bandar's open access to the Oval Office while he was Ambassador in Washington and thereafter.
‑ Or as exemplified by the symbolic holding of then Price Abdullah's hand at the Crawford Ranch meeting (see "Cheney in Saudi Land, Don't Hold Abdullah's Hand" 01.16.06; and "President Bush's Most Respectful Letter to King Abdullah on Energy Cooperation" 06.22.06 ) whose coziness resulted in an almost immediate upward ratcheting of oil prices.
The administration's oil industry buddies are ecstatic at the windfall the entire oil sector has reaped by the quadrupling of oil prices to levels undreamed of before the advent of this Presidency, while many of the nations citizens are having their household budgets ripped to shreds in order to meet their home heating bills this coming winter. Rarely if ever in the history of the Republic has there been such a divergence between the nation's interests and those of the vested interests that formed this administration.
ISLAMOFASCIST that Bush protects and kisses up to!
 
UNDERSTANDING WAHHABIST INFILTRATION OF AMERICA
Understanding the Wahhabist Infiltration of America
Frank Salvato
Part of the reason many Americans don’t appreciate the significance of Osama bin Laden’s declarations of war against the United States and the West is because they are completely oblivious to the in‑roads radical Islam has made within the United States. Radical Islamists (i.e., Islamofascists, Wahhabis) understand that the conflict must take place on multiple fronts: militarily, economically, diplomatically and ideologically. Because they understand the complexity of the confrontation and the ability of the West to adapt to challenges – albeit lethargically – they employ multiple tactics in their aggressive pursuit of victory. The West’s addiction to sensationalism, epitomized by our limited attention to detail, unless it plays in the superficial 24‑hour news cycle, facilitates the successful infiltration of radical ideology into Western society.


Much to the chagrin of the multicultural and the proponents of diversity, those who promote radical Islamist ideology thrive on the fact that the politically correct culture of the West – and the United States in particular – deems it inappropriate to question religious practices or teachings. With this politically correct “wall of separation” in place little if any scrutiny is given to the information disseminated within any given religious institution. This directly facilitates the ideological advancement of Wahhabism, the most radical and puritanical form of Islam, within the mosques of the United States.
 
To accurately understand the depth of infiltration of the Wahhabist ideology on American soil we need to examine the ideology and how it is advanced within the United States.
 
Wahhabism is a fiercely fundamentalist form of orthodox Sunni Islam. After a brief examination of its tenets it is clear that it is one of division, domination and hate.
 
Wahhabism originated circa 1703 and is the dominant form of Islam in Saudi Arabia. Wahhabists believe that any and all evolution of the Islamic faith after the 3rd century of the Muslim era – after 950 A.D. – was specious and must be expunged. Consequently, Wahhabism is the form of Islam that Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahri practice.
 
This radically fundamentalist dogma is fanatically bigoted, xenophobic and lends itself to serve as the catalyst for much of the Islamofascist aggression being perpetrated around the world. It is a wrathful doctrine that rejects the legitimacy of all religious philosophy but its own. Wahhabism condemns Christians, Jews and all other non‑Muslims, as well as non‑Wahhabi Muslims. Wahhabists believe it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate Christians and Jews.
 
It stresses a world view in which there exist two opposing realms that can never be reconciled ‑‑ Dar al‑Islam, or House of Islam, and Dar al‑Har, or House of War, also referred to as Dar al‑Kufr, House of the Infidel. When Muslims are in the Dar al‑Har, they must behave as if they were operatives in a conflict who have been tasked with going behind enemy lines. The Wahhabist ideology permits Muslims to exist “behind enemy lines” for only a few reasons: to acquire knowledge, to make money to be later employed in the jihad against the infidels, or to proselytize the infidels in an effort to convert them to Islam.
 
Wahhabist doctrine specifically warns Muslims not to imitate, befriend or help “infidels” in any way. It instills hatred for United States because we are ruled by legislated constitutional law rather than by tyrannical Sharia law. Wahhabists are instructed by edict to, above all, work for the creation of an Islamic state where ever they may dwell.
 
It is because of the Wahhabist ideology’s cruel and unyielding fanaticism that we in the United States should be concerned with its prevalence within the mosques of our nation.
 
After the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979 – an unprecedented action by the fundamentalists of the Shi’ite sect, the Saudi Arabian government responded by coming to terms with the fundamentalist Wahhabist movement of the Sunni sect. The Saudis, in return for a declaration of non‑aggression, began to finance the construction of mosques in countries around the world. An estimated $45 billion has been spent by the Saudis to finance the building and operational costs of mosques and Islamic schools in foreign countries, including in North America.
 


Through the funding of mosques, Islamic Centers and their operations, Saudi Arabia is exporting the Wahhabist ideology. It is not unusual to find that the presiding cleric in any given mosque within the United States is a Wahhabist and that his teachings have been sanctioned and financed by the Saudi government and vetted by the Muslim Brotherhood.
 
Two of the more predominant mosques in the United States that have received funding from the Saudi government, and that adhere to the Wahhabist ideology, are the al Farooq mosque in Brooklyn, New York, and the King Fahd mosque in Los Angeles, California. Both mosques welcomed a number of the hijackers who piloted the planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11th, 2001.
 
In 2005, Freedom House, a 501(c)(3) organization concerned with the mounting threats to peace and democracy, released a report titled, Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques. This examination of a comprehensive sampling of mosques and Islamic Centers across America shows that literature available in an overwhelming number of them indicates deference for the Wahhabist ideology.
 
With this ideology being taught in mosques across America, there is little reason for speculating as to why hatred exists for American principles, culture and ideology not only within the Islamic community, but among the societally disenfranchised and ideologically vulnerable in the United States who are being indoctrinated into this radical form of Islam.
 
This brings to the forefront a bothersome question. Why aren’t those of the American Fifth Column, who are predisposed to seeking out the haters among us, calling out the Wahhabist bigots who preach their hate in American mosques?
 
The British KISS THE FILTHY SAUDI ASS LIKE GEORGE W BUSH and FAMILY
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A SAUDI STATE VISIT: FIVE JUMBO JETS, 100 SERVANTS AND SEVERAL WIVES
A Saudi state visit: five jumbo jets, 100 servants... several wives
By Colin Brown
Published: 31 October 2007
A vast motorcade of gleaming limousines ferried the entourage of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to Buckingham Palace for the state banquet at the start of his official three‑day tour.
Five jumbo jets kitted out to the height of luxury were used to airlift the King's entourage to Britain.
In addition to his 23‑strong group of all‑male personal advisers, which includes 13 members of the Saudi royal family, there were 30 officials ranging from cabinet ministers to economists and specialists in British affairs.
The King was also believed to have brought a handful of wives – he has been married more than 30 times – and 100 servants to attend to his personal needs. And as the octogenarian monarch has had heart problems, he was also thought to have in attendance what has been called a "travelling clinic".
Also present were Crown Prince Sultan and his son, Prince Bandar. The crown prince runs the Ministry of Defence and Aviation, and has been heavily involved in negotiating Saudi Arabia's arms deals, not least the Al Yamamah deals with the UK and BAE systems, thought to have been worth $40bn (£20bn) over 20 years and which were subject to a Serious Fraud Office investigation suddenly dropped on the orders of the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, last year.


Prince Bandar, the National Security adviser and Saudi ambassador to Washington for 22 years, was also embroiled in the BAE inquiry. He was alleged to have received $1bn from BAE to sweeten the 1985 Al Yamamah deal. Prince Mohamed bin Nawaf, the Saudi ambassador to London, also attended the banquet.
 
The Huffington Post
 
GETTING REAL WITH SAUDI ARABIA
RAYMOND J LEARSY
With OPEC heads of state and oil ministers meeting in Riyadh this weekend past, with oil prices catapulting toward $100/barrel, the administration petitioned OPEC via Energy Secretary Bodman, to increase production. The almost immediate response to Bodman's entreaty was an immediate rebuff by Saudi Oil Minister Al Naimi advising Bodman there will be absolutely no discussion "on short term supplies by heads of state or their oil ministers at this weekend Riyadh meeting".
Given the importance of oil and its price to our economy and the world's, given Saudi Arabia's leadership role within OPEC as the swing producer, given its capabilities (Saudi Arabia/OPEC is willfully holding back 1.2 million barrels of oil production per day from production levels delivered to world markets a year ago) it is altogether reasonable to say that OPEC policy is Saudi Arabia's policy. Certainly it has come to the point where pleading with the Saudis seems futile. Especially now, with oil near $100/bbl, they seem impervious to anything but their own interests. A new relationship is called for. Its preamble and policy points might well be as follows:
The current price of oil is a cartel determined price. You, Saudi Arabia, are the putative leaders of the OPEC cartel and we hold you responsible for the marketplace distortions of this fundamentally important commodity to the world's and our economy. It is a distortion that is an aggression against this nation's economic wellbeing. Therefore we announce this day and until the oil market is returned to true and manipulation free market forces‑
 
‑ We have under negotiation with you together with other OPEC Gulf States a major provision of advanced armaments. These negotiations will cease immediately. We will be pleased to give you phone numbers of our counterparts in Russia should you wish to procure these armaments elsewhere.
 
100 MILLION PER DAY TO PROTECT FILTHY SAUDI ASS
 
‑ We will immediately stand down one half of the naval task force patrolling the Arabian/Persian Gulf protecting your shoreline at a cost to our treasury of some $100mm/day. As the price of oil continues to escalate, as further quantities are withheld by you from market, we will make further reductions in the task force capabilities.


‑ We will make it clear that we consider Saudi Arabia withholding oil from world markets an unfriendly act and if our actions in turn result in Iranian hegemony of the Persian/Arabian Gulf, so be it. This with the clear‑eyed understanding that given Saudi actions our relations with the Iranians can not be worse then they are in actuality with the Saudis, and at some levels, as on a people to people basis, decidedly better. One need only read the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom's report released last week highlighting Saudi Arabia's egregious violations of religious rights and lack of progress on efforts to halt the exportation of extremist ideology and continued practices violating the rights at home of minority Shiite Muslims, non Muslim religious groups and women.

 

SAUDI LARGEST CONTINGENT OF FOREIGN INSURGENTS/SUICIDE BOMBERS IN IRAQ

 Or yesterday's lead story in the NYTimes that the Saudi's are the largest contingent by far of foreign insurgents/suicide bombers in Iraq and that according to American military officials "Saudi citizens provide the majority of financing for Al Queda in Mesopotania." And not to be forgotten, the fifteen Saudi citizens on those planes.

 

Given their behavior, it is the time to end our supplicant relationship with Saudi Arabia. It is time for government to act!

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Raymond J. Learsy is the author of the updated Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil's Grip On Our Future.

 

INSTEAD OF INVADING IRAN, WHY NOT INVADE THE FILTHY SAUDIS? JUST LIKE THEY DID US 9-11.......................!

 

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Raymond J. Learsy is the author of the updated Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil's Grip On Our Future.