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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (191956)	10/14/2001 3:26:58 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Now he blames the Jews. dailynews.yahoo.com Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, in a statement released after he visited the World Trade Centre site, said the US "should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause". thecouriermail.news.com.au I think that is saying we are to blame. So, he sides with the terrorists. We need to wake up, Saudi is a big problem. The intercepts, Hersh writes, "depict a regime increasingly corrupt, alienated from the country's religious rank and file, and so weakened and frightened that it has brokered its future by channelling hundreds of millions of dollars in what amounts to protection money to fundamentalist groups that wish to overthrow it." By 1996, Hersh reports, Saudi money was supporting Al Qaeda and similar extremist groups in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, and throughout both Central Asia and the Persian Gulf region. "Ninety-six is the key year," one American intelligence official tells Hersh in the October 22, 2001 issue of the NEW YORKER . Hersh reports that the intercepts have provided several important insights into political and economic affairs in the kingdom, including the extent of the physical incapacitation of King Fahd, the corruption of specific royal-family members, and the funding of fundamentalist groups through charities. The intelligence official tells Hersh that asfar as bankrolling fundamentalist groups goes, the Saudis had "gone to the dark side." Current and former intelligence officials suggest, Hersh reports, that the instability of the Saudi regime is "the most immediate threat to American economic and political interests in the Middle East," and that "the Bush Administration, like the Clinton Administration, is refusing to confront this reality." Impacting Monday... drudgereport.com Good to see you still posting gao. Thanks. And, welcome back, hero!