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01/03/02 11:04 PM: The Saudi Threat
Wow! Even the WSJ Editorial Page is saying that we need to go after the Saudis! Well, maybe not go after, but at least look at them as potential terrorists. I mean, most of the 9/11 hijackers did come from Saudi Arabia. Here is an excerpt from Ralph Peter’s article “The Saudi Threat”:
“This is an oilman’s administration, and long affiliation with energy affairs appears to have blinded an otherwise-superb strategic team to the abundant, well-documented evidence. Far from examining Saudi Arabia’s deep and extensive complicity in supporting terror and undermining secular regimes throughout the Muslim world and beyond, the administration reflexively defends the Saudis. I do not believe the administration is intentionally dishonest—only that ties to the oil business and a half-century’s assumptions prevent it from facing up to Saudi Arabia’s support for, and funding of, the cruelest, most benighted and hate-filled version of one of the world’s great religions.”
Read more here (Some kind of registration needed, I believe).
