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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (21397)	3/16/2003 12:55:23 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

The Saudi Arabian government provides cash payments of $5,333 to each family of "martyrs" killed while trying to murder Israelis, and a telethon on Saudi Arabian government- controlled television in April 2002 has been "raising money for the Palestinian uprising"--and it has raised $100-million so far. A poem by a prominent Saudi Arabian diplomat praising terrorists aroused international criticism in April 2002. The poem, titled "The Martyrs," was authored by the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Great Britain, Ghazi Algosaibi and appeared in the London-based Arab newspaper Al Hayat on April 13. It read, in part: Allah is witness that you are martyrs / The prophets are witness ... and the holy men / You died to honor My God's word / In lands where the dearest are prisoners ... Ayat, the bride of loftiness [18 year-old Palestinian Arab suicide bomber Ayat Akhras] / She embraced death with a smile while the leaders are running away from death / Doors of heaven are opened for her ... We complained to the idols of a White House whose heart is filled with darkness.1 Although such blatant glorification of terrorists is repulsive and merited the criticism it received, the critics should not have been surprised. Ambassador Algosaibi's sentiments are completely consistent with the Saudi Arabian government's long-standing support --political as well as financial-- for anti-Israeli and anti- American terrorist groups. The Saudi Arabian government's refusal to fire the ambassador, or to reprimand him, or even to dissociate itself from the pro-terrorist poem speaks volumes about the Saudi leadership's own attitude towards terrorism. zoa.org I see no calls by the shrubbies to swing an invasion into Saudi Arabia for the exact claim made as a compelling, irrefutable, unavoidable reason to invade Iraq.