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The Saudis aren't only our friends, they're also BFF with Al Qaeda!

April 3, 2008 by Justin View Comments

Saudi Arabia is prime source of terror funds, U.S. says
By Josh Meyer

WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia remains the world’s leading source of money for Al Qaeda and other extremist networks and has failed to take key steps requested by U.S. officials to stem the flow, the Bush administration’s top financial counter-terrorism official said Tuesday.

Article Continues… (L.A. Times)

There’s a school of thought that says Saudi Arabia is one of the best starting places for reform in the Middle East, so I’m not up for abandoning them just yet. However, we obviously shouldn’t turn a blind eye to news like this. For better or worse, I really think it’s time for the Saudis to pick a side.

Filed Under: Al Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism

I guess a lack of doomsday rhetoric = friendship

March 4, 2008 by Justin View Comments

Iranian Paper: Jordan, Saudi Arabia Spying For Israel
By MEMRI

In an editorial, the Iranian daily Jomhouri-e Eslami attacked the “disgraceful passivity” of the Arabs in the face of Israel’s attacks on Gaza.

The paper wrote that there are signs that “some Arab regimes — headed by Saudi Arabia and Jordan — are spying for Israel and helping it topple Hamas and Islamic Jihad.”

Source: Jomhouri-e Eslami, Iran, March 4, 2008

source (MEMRI Iranian Media Blog)

Seriously, is not bombing the crud out of Israel a sign you’re on their side? I figured it just meant these regimes didn’t feel like fighting…yet.

Filed Under: Iran, Jordan, Media, Saudi Arabia

Saudis Threaten Brits with another 7/7

February 15, 2008 by Justin View Comments

By David Leigh and Rob Evans

Saudi Arabia’s rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.

Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced “another 7/7″ and the loss of “British lives on British streets” if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.

Article Continues… (The Guardian)

Apparently our friends the Saudis aren’t friends of the British.

HT: Jihad Watch

Filed Under: Saudi Arabia

Bush delivers major arms sale on visit to Saudi Arabia

January 14, 2008 by Justin View Comments

US President George W. Bush, on his first visit to this oil-rich kingdom, delivered a major arms sale Monday to a key ally in a region where the US casts neighboring Iran as a menace to stability.

Full Article (Jerusalem Post)

Why do I think this will bite him in the rear?

Filed Under: Iran, Middle East Politics, Saudi Arabia

Saudi gang rape sentence 'unjust'

November 17, 2007 by Justin View Comments

A lawyer for a gang-rape victim in Saudi Arabia who was sentenced to 200 lashes and six-months in jail says the punishment contravenes Islamic law.

Full Article (BBC)

Unfortunately, based on what I’ve read, her lawyer is wrong. Not that I fancy myself an expert on Islam by any stretch of the imagination.

Filed Under: Radical Islam, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Asks Israel to Abandon Barrier as a Gesture to Arabs

September 27, 2007 by Justin View Comments

Israel should stop work on a security barrier in and along the West Bank and halt settlement activity there as a good-will gesture to assure Arab states that it is serious about comprehensive peace talks, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said yesterday.

The minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, stopped short of making his demand a condition for Arab attendance at a planned Middle East peace conference. And he said that in recent days, he had become encouraged about the prospects for the conference, which the United States is to sponsor in November. But he would not promise that Saudi Arabia would attend, a major Israeli objective.

Full Article (New York Times)

If I started asking people I didn’t like to kill themselves as a sign of friendship, you know what that would make me? Completely insane!

Filed Under: Saudi Arabia, Security Fence

Why We Should Not Arm Saudi Arabia

September 20, 2007 by Justin View Comments

When one reviews the history of Saudi-American relations, one sees a relationship based not on friendship but on oil for protection and money.

Full Article (American Thinker)

Pretty good opinion piece, and one I’d agree with.