(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) Good news! Saudi Arabian officials have announced the apprehension of nine suspected militants (their words) in two different operations by security police.
Also confiscated were 12 hand grenades and 1,000,000 Saudi riyals (about $267,000).
Although this is great news, it's a little troubling that we never hear what happens to these terrorists when they go to court. Given that Saudi Arabia is a Muslim nation,
if many terrorists are let go with minor punishment. Frankly, not knowing is the hard part.
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mike
This group's goal is to overthrow the Saudi Govt, kill off the royal family, and impose their even more ruthless and harsher philosophy on the country ...
Trust me ... they will not be treated with kid gloves! In fact, after a few days, we may never see or hear from them again!
After a certain point, its not about religion - its about power.
Posted by: hondo at January 18, 2006 12:07 AM (3aakz)
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In ol' European days, the kings and princes would bring in the clergy to verify the enemies of the state are indeed heretics - its good PR. Expect Saudis to do same - its not personal .. its business - or religion or religion and business whatever ... with islam, I get confused.
Posted by: hondo at January 18, 2006 12:12 AM (3aakz)
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Effectively it's irrelevant.
The Saudis arrest a couple, while every friday night, THOUSANDS of kooky preachers get up into their pulpits preaching whacked out wahabism.
On the day and the hour that the Saudis start rounding up THOUSANDS of clerics, close their religous police force, shut down their religous universities, THEN I'll know some good news finally emerged from "the Kingdom," as the State Department fellas term it.
Posted by: Dan at January 18, 2006 12:51 AM (GAtBS)
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Someone forgot to pay their protection money...
Posted by: ericj at January 18, 2006 08:40 AM (hrQvk)
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I doubt they will be set free, I also doubt they will get the harsh punishment either. They will probably spend sometine in jail, sent back to their country, and then sent free. By that time they will have had a some what vaction on tax payers money and start all over. (my opinion)
I say that we give them what they want. Find an island, way out in the sea area, throw a couple of satellites over it and call it ALLAH BFUKD and put them on it. They can then live out the rest of there life in exile. That's what they deserve. It's either that or death. We already can see that they can't live amongst normal human beings.
Posted by: Taco Bandit at January 18, 2006 08:49 AM (MOKXn)
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Given the Saudis' track record of catch and release, pardon me if I don't dance a jig over this news. They'll probably just slap them around a bit and warn them to keep their terrorist activities out of the kingdom.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 18, 2006 10:57 AM (0yYS2)
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It's just as likely their punishment will be that the Saudi government keeps their money, they attend a mock trial that gets them a few lashes and then -
home you go. The only way they'll surely execute them (and quickly) is if we display an interest in them for possible crimes against the US. Can't have them talking, now can we?
Of course, that's the cynic in me. I've been taking lessons here lately.
Posted by: Oyster at January 18, 2006 01:12 PM (osKlJ)
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actually IM mentioned a CIA agent's name I had not heard before yesterday, prompting me to look him up, Robert Baer. I found this URL interesting:
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/09/12_baer.html
In which he makes this very true revelation about the story that Al Qaeda wishes to topple the Saudi Government:
If I were a fundamentalist and I wanted to take Saudi Arabia over, what I would do is I’d go after the royal family. I would set off a few car bombs and kill a couple of them. Destabilize the country. But for some reason, the royal family has not been the victim of terrorism that they claim they have been. You cannot name a single case where the fundamentalists killed a Saudi prince. They claim all the time that there are all these plots afoot, and they’ve stopped them. But all the terrorism has really been against the United States and other Western countries, or Western interests in Saudi Arabia.
So we're told all the time that Al Qaeda wishes to topple the Saudi regime, however as stated all the attacks have been against western interests, and not the monarchy, so how true is that statement?
Posted by: dave at January 18, 2006 01:52 PM (CcXvt)
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Well, bin Laden has stated clearly he is mad at the Sauds. But I've yet to see anything attempted against them. We only hear of secretive "plots".
Posted by: Oyster at January 18, 2006 04:16 PM (osKlJ)
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Don't know Dave - could go either way on this. They could just as easily, in that social environment, be tortured and execute along with their families threatened - all out of sight of course.
Posted by: hondo at January 18, 2006 04:21 PM (3aakz)
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does make you think however, as he states in the article that Saudi's have been one of the major backers of Al Qaeda (google: The Golden Chain [the name Al Qaeda gives to a group of rich Saudi backers])
Along with the fact they've never specifically made a move on the monarchy there, and the specific links to their citizens/banks/monarchy backing the movement in both money/support it does ring hollow.
Posted by: dave at January 18, 2006 04:47 PM (CcXvt)
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Dave, Bob Baer is a good one to read. I've read everything he's published and try to catch him on TV when I can. He's the man whose career Herr Klinton ruined and who was almost arrested for, get this,
attempting to overthrow Saddam Hussein, just as he was ordered to do.
And before some whiney libtard douchebag starts bitchsquealing about KKKlinton bashing, I would just like to add this disclaimer: F**k you, nobody cares what liberals think.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 19, 2006 12:32 AM (0yYS2)
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Just to reinforce what others have said, using reverse "follow the money" logic, the reason al-Qaeda doesn't attack the monarchy is that they are being paid off.
Posted by: Mike at January 19, 2006 07:09 AM (pYPnN)
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