This article first appeared in WorldNetDaily on 19 May 2003. It doesn't date. Thanks to Yankee Doodle for reminding us of it.
WASHINGTON – In a rare admission, Adel al-Jubeir, the smug, bug-eyed flack for the Saudi royal government, conceded that the kingdom ignored repeated requests by an American diplomat to beef up security at the Riyadh compounds where several Americans last week were slaughtered in another massive al-Qaida attack.
But he actually had the gall to defend his government's inaction in part by saying that, in hindsight, the increased security requested would not have stopped the multiple bombings.
Anyway, there was nothing sinister about the oversight; it was just a bureaucratic snafu, he claimed, noting that many Saudis who worked at the compounds also were killed. Al-Qaida is "coming after us," too, an almost teary-eyed al-Jubeir said, so we are all in this together.
Yeah, we'll believe that the day Osama bin Laden sends a jumbo jet crashing into the crown prince's palace. You can bet Prince Abdullah wouldn't need but one warning from American intelligence to beef up security at his own house if it were an al-Qaida target, which it isn't – not now, not ever.
The Saudis know full well that Americans, and American installations, are bin Laden's real target in Saudi. Just like they were in 1995 when he ordered at least four Saudis – all conveniently beheaded by the royal government before the FBI could get a chance to interrogate them – to blow up a U.S.-run military training facility in
The Saudi government still suggests the barracks attack, which killed 19 American airmen, was the work of
If bin Laden attacked the House of Saud, he'd be destroying the source of much of the funding for his terrorist network. Prince Sultan, the long-time Saudi defense minister, for one, has donated millions of dollars to bin Laden's favorite charity, the International Islamic Relief Organization, or IIRO. He is the same royal family member who blamed the "Zionist" lobby for the 9-11 attacks.
Another royal pain, Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., joined the ever-unctuous al-Jubeir on U.S. airwaves last week to help control the damage to U.S. relations (read: business contracts) from the latest Saudi affront.
Brandishing his trademark smirk, Bandar tried to claim that the reason three-fourths of the 9-11 hijackers were Saudi is because bin Laden purposely stacked the mission with Saudis to drive a wedge between the
Bandar, who lives here, would also have us believe that his wife, Princess Haifa, didn't mean for her own charitable checks of some $3,500 a month to wind up in the hands of two of the 9-11 hijackers. Or that he wasn't trying to protect bin Laden's relatives from FBI questioning when he helped spirit them out of the country right after the attacks on New York and Washington.
By any objective measure,
Yet President Bush and members of his Cabinet, along with his ever-trusting father, continue to give the Saudi royal family the benefit of the doubt, insisting it is still America's "friend," even after it refused to help protect Americans living under its care in the face of credible and specific terrorist threats, essentially leaving bin Laden a key under the mat at those fire-bombed American apartments.
Our friend? No, it's your friend, Mr. President.
The Bushes are on a first-name basis with the Saudi elite. They've done business together, they've dined together, they've even vacationed together in places like
As principals at the Carlyle Group, a powerful investment firm here, both the former president and long-time family crony James Baker III have made business pilgrimages to
Baker's Houston-based law firm is now representing Prince Sultan, the big IIRO donor, who is being sued by 9-11 families. Moreover, George W. Bush's former business partner, James Bath, was in bed with the billionaire bin Mahfouz family of Saudi Arabia, which helped create bin Laden's favorite charity. Dubya, a one-time director of a Carlyle subsidiary, made a killing in Harken Energy stock after a Saudi investor took a big stake in the company and threw a lucrative
These are just some of the personal ties that bind the current administration to this phony "ally" in the war on terrorism.
When it comes to fighting al-Qaida, the Saudi royal family is playing a double game with
Do an internet search on the keywords "Bush" and "Mahfouz".
One other name that often comes out is
George W. Bush's buddy James Bath has organized financing for Bush's business deals. The source of that financing has been Khalid bin Mahfouz. Khalid bin Mahfouz is in tight with the Saudi royal family; Bush's family is also in tight with the Saudi royal family.
The Saudi Royal family is also in tight with the bin Laden family -- supposedly, neither of these families condones terror, and Osama is the black sheep.
Khalid bin Mahfouz finances terrorists, including bin Laden.
Whether it's the Jihad or the Counterjihad, when you get high enough up the ladder, it's the same small circle of guys.
At the bottom of the ladders, 1) economically poor Iraqis are paid to do the dirty work of planting roadside bombs to kill our troops, 2) Saudi mujahideen and our troops kill each other in
But at the top of the respective ladders, what are George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden to each other, really?
I respect Osama bin Laden. When he tells us he's planning to kill us, at least he's telling us the truth.
Do an internet search, and see what you come up with.
1 comment:
Good of you to refresh memories, Anticant. In the ME things are not like the "protected" media say, and this thing about Saudi Arabia and Bin Laden was reported long ago but nobody now seems to remember.
And, yes, I am firmly convinced that Saudi Arabia has an important hand in Al Qaeda affairs.
Post a Comment