Coming Attractions
Jul 31st, 2005 at 9:45 pm by Susie
So. Are we invading Saudi Arabia now?
LONDON, July 31 — British and Saudi investigators are examining a series of phone calls, text messages and e-mails between leaders of the al Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia and unknown people in Britain between February and May for possible links to the recent bomb attacks in London or a still unidentified group of extremists operating in Britain, according to a Saudi official.
“We’re holding regimes accountable for harboring and supporting terror.”
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Don’t encourage them!!!!
I/f/ Since we didn’t invade when 15 of 19 of the attackers who took +3K American lives were Saudi, what “fuzzy math” would justify invading when only two of the seven or so attackers of Brits (who are like us, only they talk funny and drive on the word side of the road, as Eric Bazillian once noted), with a kill total of less than 200?
I’ve come to accept that people who hate Bush point out his failure to invade Saudi Arabia for a crime committed by fifteen Saudi nationals. When we deploy this tactic we are in effect advocating a cherished neo-con goal of conquering and controlling the vast oil reserves of Saudi Arabia. We are currently in control via our links to the house of Saud but in the house of Saud is no longer all powerful in Saudia Arabia. Our focus should have never removed our focus on Afganistan.
On a second note effective terrorist organizations are based on an anarchist model which is with out central control or central leadership. Al Qaida is primarily a clearing house of information and training for would be terrorists. Bin Laden does not sit in his cave along the Pakistan and Afganistan border writing e-mails to his underlings. He is the rallying point for a movement with out a personal leader (I know the wording is awkard). The link, if there is any, is frivilous at best. Al Qaida does not operate with a central leadership. I would also doubt the source of this article since there has been no follow up…meaning its been dropped down the memory hole.