"I summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite slave." King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993 (from Michael, via email)
The above quote is from 1993. The following article is from two months ago:
Ex-Saudi ambassador: Kingdom could have helped U.S. prevent 9/11
(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia could have helped the United States prevent al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on New York and Washington if American officials had consulted Saudi authorities in a "credible" way, the kingdom's former ambassador said in a documentary aired Thursday.
The comments by Prince Bandar bin Sultan are similar to the remarks this week by Saudi King Abdullah that suggested Britain could have prevented the July 2005 train bombings in London if it had heeded warnings from Riyadh.
Speaking to the Arabic satellite network Al-Arabiya on Thursday, Bandar -- now Abdullah's national security adviser -- said Saudi intelligence was "actively following" most of the September 11, 2001, plotters "with precision."
"If U.S. security authorities had engaged their Saudi counterparts in a serious and credible manner, in my opinion, we would have avoided what happened," he said.
Bandar was the Saudi ambassador to Washington for nearly 22 years before he was replaced in 2005. A knowledgeable U.S. official told CNN that Bandar's comments should be taken "with a grain of salt."
On Monday, Abdullah told the BBC that Saudi Arabia had sent warnings to British authorities before the London subway bombings that killed 52 people -- the city's bloodiest day since World War II.
"We have sent information to Great Britain before the terrorist attacks in Britain," Abdullah said. "But unfortunately, no action was taken, and it may have been able to avert the tragedy."
The September 11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. All but four of the suicide hijackers who carried out the plot were Saudi nationals, and after the attacks, the kingdom was widely criticized for having tolerated Islamic militancy.
The Saudis have called the criticism unfair, pointing out that al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden's original grievance was against the country's ruling family, which invited U.S. troops into the kingdom after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
advertisementA string of attacks on Western compounds, oil installations and Saudi institutions between 2003 and 2006 were blamed on al Qaeda's followers.
And Saudi officials say that since 9/11, they have taken steps to ensure charitable donations do not fall into the hands of al Qaeda.
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Time To Apply The 15% Solution: Making Bush Tax Cuts Permanent, Investors Business Daily, hat tip Steve T at Internet Network Radio
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GEEZ I HATE THEM SAUDI RAGHEADS!!!!!! THIS MUSLIM PIG WOULD NEVER SPOUT OFF LIKE THAT IN PERSON, CAUSE HE,S A COWARD. TELL THE SAUDIS TO GO TO HELL WITH THEIR OIL. WE GOT ENOUGH UP NORTH HERE TO LAST BOTH OUR COUNTRIES FOR 200 YRS. GOOGLE UP FT MC MURRAY TARSANDS AND YOU,LL SEE WHAT I MEAN. I WOULD TELL THE SAUDI PIGS THAT IF THERE IS ANOTHER TERROR ATTACK ON U.S. SOIL , MECCA AND MEDINA WILL BE ONE BIG PILE OF GLASS WITH A NICE GREEN GLOW!!!!!! THATS MY NEW BATTLE CRY: NUKE MECCA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: PALADIN | January 31, 2008 at 07:10 PM
I have a better question, soldier Rasta:
How many muslims and commies traitors the TRUE Americans will need TO KILL in order to save America?
THAT'S A WAR! A Cultural War, but a militar one, too; and when it comes to fight Satanism, aka Islamism, only ONE SIDE MUST LIVE; THE ENEMY MUST DIE. Period.
Posted by: Ernesto Ribeiro | January 31, 2008 at 03:47 PM
PFFFFFFFFFFFT! This does not surprise me in the least. And Bush thinks bowing down in the Saudi thrown rooms of oile will give us "brownie points." Pathetic!
Posted by: Layla | January 31, 2008 at 12:04 PM
The day will come when our dependency on Saudi oil will come to an end. It will fill me with laughter when I see how insignificant they have become to US policy.
Posted by: Robocop | January 31, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Glad everything is ok.
I wonder how many Madrassa schools and mosques would be built under a President Obama?
How many Saudi "students" would be allowed to flood the country?
How many black muslims would be appointed to the Cabinet?
How much money would find its way into the hands of Louis Farrakhan?
How much money would go to Raila Odinga?
How many Sharia Law Wahabbist enclaves would quietly form in cities and towns across the United States, financed by the Saudis?
Rasta
Posted by: Rastaman | January 31, 2008 at 11:36 AM
If we'd quit giving any kind of credence to out-there Leftist enviroterrorists, and drill for and use our own domestic oil supplies, we could thumb our noses at both-ends-against-the-middle Arabs and their blooded oil money.
Posted by: Skunkfeathers | January 31, 2008 at 07:07 AM
The only reason anybody is the a slave of the Saudis is the huge sums of money with which the arrogant ones buy the powerful of the earth.
Unfortunately greed is a powerful motivator.
Posted by: Aurora | January 31, 2008 at 06:16 AM
MK: Like ANWAR?
Posted by: Yehoshua | January 31, 2008 at 05:50 AM
The perception that Arab countries are run by scum is an old one and it's a fact. And the Palestinians are so rotten that the Arabs kicked them out of society. How much lower does that make the Palestinians than scum? Palestinians are the subhuman roaches that the Arabs couldn't stand.
Posted by: David | January 31, 2008 at 05:49 AM
Damn oil, if only we could find it elsewhere, we could tell these tossers to take a hike.
Posted by: MK | January 31, 2008 at 04:58 AM