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Date: July 15, 2007 7:09:38 PM PDT
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Subject: SAME Sleight of Hand, Diverting Us from the SAME Asses
Bush & Co Must Kiss
Same problem as with Pakistan (whose ISI helped finance 9/11),
which the U.S. doesn't dare offend, for fear the populace would
kick out our puppet Musharraf and unite with Afghanistan to become
"Al Qaeda-stan." Without the U.S., Britain., and yes, ISRAEL, to
prop up the corrupt Saudi royals in exchange for preferred terms on
their oil, there'd INSTANTLY be either a democratic revolt or an
Islamic Revolution.
Did the Military and Media Mislead Us Again?
Most "Outside Insurgents" in Iraq Come from SAUDI ARABIA
By Greg Mitchell
Published: July 15, 2007 8:40 AM ET
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?
vnu_content_id=1003611786
NEW YORK -- For years, polls have shown that very large numbers of
Americans continue to falsely believe that some of the 9/11
hijackers came from Iraq. In reality, the overwhelming number
hailed from the land of a U.S. ally, Saudi Arabia.
Now it turns out that Saudi Arabia is also home to the largest
number of so-called "foreign fighters" in Iraq, despite
administration efforts -- aided by many in the media -- to paint
Iran and Syria as the main outside culprits there.
The Los Angeles Times reports today that according to a senior U.S.
military officer and Iraqi lawmakers, about 45% of all foreign
militants "targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security
forces are from Saudi Arabia." Only 15% are from Syria and Lebanon;
and 10% are from North Africa. This is based on official U.S.
military figures made available to newspaper by the senior officer.
Nearly half of the 135 foreigners in U.S. detention facilities in
Iraq are Saudis, he said.
"Fighters from Saudi Arabia are thought to have carried out more
suicide bombings than those of any other nationality, said the
senior U.S. officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of
the subject's sensitivity," the Times' Ned Parker writes. "It is
apparently the first time a U.S. official has given such a
breakdown on the role played by Saudi nationals in Iraq's Sunni
Arab insurgency.
"He said 50% of all Saudi fighters in Iraq come here as suicide
bombers. In the last six months, such bombings have killed or
injured 4,000 Iraqis.
"The situation has left the U.S. military in the awkward position
of battling an enemy whose top source of foreign fighters is a key
ally that at best has not been able to prevent its citizens from
undertaking bloody attacks in Iraq, and at worst shares complicity
in sending extremists to commit attacks against U.S. forces, Iraqi
civilians and the Shiite-led government in Baghdad."
Yet hardly a word has been directed at Saudi Arabia (which also
drew relatively little criticism after 9/11) by the White House and
Pentagon. Some observers suggest the Saudis are happy to have
militants leave, which alleviates some of the threats in-country.
"U.S. officials remain sensitive about the relationship," Parker
explains. "Asked why U.S. officials in Iraq had not publicly
criticized Saudi Arabia the way they had Iran or Syria, the senior
military officer said, 'Ask the State Department. This is a
political juggernaut.'
"Last week when U.S. military spokesman Bergner declared 'Al Qaeda'
the country's No. 1 threat, he released a profile of a thwarted
suicide bomber, but said he had not received clearance to reveal
his nationality. The bomber was a Saudi national, the senior
military officer said Saturday."
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Arabs try outreach to Israel, U.S. Jews
Updated 2/12/2007 7:39 AM ET
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-11-arabs-outreach_x.htm
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Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, left, meets with
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail
Haniyeh on Feb. 8 in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The Saudis hope that
reaching out to Israel and the U.S. will secure a solution for
Palestinians.
By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, are making some of
their most public overtures ever to Israel and American Jews in an
effort to undercut Iran's growing influence, contain violence in
Iraq and Lebanon and push for a Palestinian solution.
The high-profile gestures coincide with Saudi Arabia's lead role
last week in brokering a deal for a coalition Palestinian government.
Last month, Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's departing
ambassador to the United States, attended a Washington reception
sponsored by American Jewish organizations. The event honored a
State Department diplomat appointed to combat anti-Semitism.
The appearance of a Saudi diplomat is "unprecedented," said William
Daroff, Washington office director for the United Jewish
Communities, which organized the reception.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have stepped up
contacts with Israel and pro-Israel Jewish groups in the USA. The
outreach has the Bush administration's blessing: Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice has said six Gulf states and Egypt, Jordan and
Israel are a new alignment of moderates to oppose extremists backed
by Iran and Syria. She has said an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal
would weaken militants such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
Contacts have intensified as part of a strategy meant to undercut
extremists and build momentum for a peace deal between Israelis and
Palestinians, said Jamal Kashoggi, an aide to Saudi Prince Turki.
Judith Kipper, a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign
Relations, said, "What really concerns pro-U.S. Arab states is that
Iran is setting the political agenda in the region."
Saudi and Gulf Arab contacts with Israelis and American Jews go
back more than a decade but have never been so public. Arab
countries have treated Israel as a pariah since it gained
independence in 1948. Most Arab countries ban travel to Israel,
investment there and other commercial ties with the Jewish state
and routinely refer to it as the "Zionist entity."
Only three of 21 Arab nations recognize Israel: Egypt, Jordan and
Mauritania. A 2002 peace plan put forward by Saudi Arabia offers
diplomatic relations with the other 18 Arab states if Israel
withdraws to the borders it had in 1967 — meaning giving up the
West Bank and the Golan Heights — and cedes land for a new
Palestinian state.
Among the other recent Arab-Jewish contacts:
•Saudi national security adviser Bandar bin Sultan met privately
with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jordan in September,
said Daniel Ayalon, Israel's former ambassador to Washington. He
said it was the highest-level Saudi-Israeli meeting he'd ever heard
of.
•The United Arab Emirates has invited a delegation from the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
The conference, a 51-member umbrella group, is a strong supporter
of Israel.
•Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres met the emir of Qatar
in late January after taking part in a debate with Arab students
there. It was the highest-level Israeli meeting with the Gulf
nation since 1996, when Peres visited as prime minister.
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WASHINGTON REPORT on Middle East Affairs
http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/kingandi.htm
Special Report
The King (Saud of Saudi Arabia) and I:
Eyewitness to History
By Alfred M. Lilienthal
March 1995, pgs. 31-32
In December a group of leaders from the American Jewish Committee
traveled to Riyadh to see King Fahd. Their visit was to express
their concern lest new surveillance satellite photos purchased by a
Saudi Arabian company be used for military purposes against Israel.
The King assured them the information would be used only for
commercial purposes.
The leadership boasted of its accomplishment, and were portrayed by
the U.S. media as the first Jews ever to be received in the Saudi
Kingdom by a reigning monarch.
Like so much of the propaganda emanating from Zionist sources, this
was pure myth-information. Thirty-nine years earlier, in 1955, I
had visited Riyadh and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia as the guest of His
Majesty King Saud and was subsequently received over the years by
his successors and brothers, Kings Faisal, Khalid, and Fahd.
I have no idea of how many hundreds, or thousands, of American Jews
have visited Saudi Arabia since then. Each press entourage that
accompanied U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on his many
visits to the Kingdom contained Jewish journalists, none of whom
encountered problems or we would have read about them in their
reports.
My own first visit was in 1955, a year or so after my book What
Price Israel? had been published in the United States and had
become a solid hit. It was then translated into Arabic in Beirut as
Themen Israel? and went into seven printings. By the time I arrived
in the Lebanese capital on my second visit to that country, I
recall that my arrival was trumpeted on the front pages, and I was
received as a conquering hero. Arab officials and media pundits
vied in honoring the one U.S. writer who had effectively defied the
Zionist movement.
A grand reception was tendered me at the American University of
Beirut Alumni Club, where 200 people turned out as guests of the
minister of information. It was a beautiful affair, and my first
visit to the famed educational institution where I was to lecture
later. The Saudi ambassador to Lebanon was present, and in
congratulating me he said, "We should bring you to the Kingdom."
Though the Arabic version of the book had been successful, I had
received not a penny in royalties. The translation had been
pirated. At an embassy reception, I accosted the two young
publishers and said to them: "Don't you agree that I deserve a few
Lebanese pounds for the 10,000 copies you have sold?" Their quick
answer: "We pay you? We made you popular. You ought to pay us."
They were right, at least, about the popularity. I had understood
from those who had already arranged visits for me to Egypt, Syria,
Jordan and Iraq that a visa for Saudi Arabia would be impossible to
obtain because I was a Jew. But now my popularity had extended to
Saudi Arabia, and in the spring of 1955 I was invited to come to
the Kingdom. I was met at the airport by the military aide to His
Majesty King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz, and by my sponsor, Minister of
Information Abdullah Bulkhair, who had persuaded King Saud of the
wisdom of my visit.
From the airport I was taken in an official car, with flags flying,
to the Al-Yamama Hotel, where I had a beautiful suite, rested and
then was brought to Nassariya Palace. I arrived there shortly
before prayer time and was seated in an anteroom through whose open
door I could look into the room where the King and his court were
at prayer.
When the King's prayers were completed, I was introduced to him. As
we shook hands, he said, " Ahlan wa Sahlan [welcome], Dr.
Lilienthal." Then we proceeded to the dining room, followed by his
ministers and some of his sons. This dinner with the son and first
heir to the founder of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Abdul
Aziz Ibn Saud Ibn Abdul Rahman Al Saud, was one I shall always
remember. Standing behind each of us was a servant. If you
momentarily turned away from your plate for conversation with your
neighbor—bingo! It was gone.
A Rapid Repast
Everything had to be done speedily. His Majesty was on a special
diet and ate very lightly—mostly yogurt as I remember—and quickly.
Everyone else also ate quickly because, as I discovered shortly,
when the King finished, dinner was over. Everyone stood up and left
the table. Throughout this 22-minute five-course dinner an officer
stood to the left of the King and read the news to his sovereign in
Arabic.
The cutlery and china were magnificent. Indeed it was a table fit
for a king, even the ruler of the land with the largest oil
reserves of any nation in the world.
I savored every brief moment of this dinner. It included wonderful
chicken and lamb kabobs and an array of desserts, including
baklava, to suit my sweet tooth.
It was only after that memorable evening that the information
minister, who by that time had become my friend Abdullah, told me
that receiving Lilienthal, a Jew, had also become a memorable event
in the Kingdom. When it was announced on the radio (before the days
of television in Saudi Arabia) that the King was hosting a Jewish
writer, there was a first-class brouhaha. The ulama, the kingdom's
religious leaders, were vocal in their outrage. How dare the King
receive a Jew, these zealots asked, so long as much of Palestine
and the Holy City of Jerusalem were in the hands of Jewish Israeli
usurpers?
In fact, according to Information Minister Bulkhair (who may have
indulged in some poetic exaggeration), I was the first Jew formally
received by a ruler in Saudi Arabia in the more than 13 centuries
since two Jewish tribes had sided with pagan opponents of the
Prophet Muhammad and subsequently had been banished from Arabia.
I met again with King Saud the next day and we talked together for
half an hour, with Abdullah Bulkhair capably translating. The King
was particularly curious to know about the U.S. attitude on the
Palestine question and inquired whether I thought Palestine would
ever be freed of the foreign occupation. The friendly conversation
took place in a small, ornate reception room. Little did I dream
that Abdullah had placed a microphone under the table in front of
us, taping our entire, historic conversation.
Some 18 months later, when King Saud made his first state visit
abroad to India as a guest of Prime Minister Nehru, the Saudi
government published a special book in English explaining the
history, policies, religion, and traditions of the country for
distribution to Indian media and officials.
This 40-page book contained a section covering King Saud's "views
on Palestine, as told in an interview with the famed American
writer, Dr. Alfred Lilienthal, author of What Price Israel?"There
was our entire conversation, exactly as it had taken place in
Riyadh during my 1955 meeting with His Majesty.
At a second dinner, King Saud presented me with an ornate box.
Opening it, I found an unusually beautiful Mido watch with a heavy
gold strap, in the center of which was a striking picture in green
and red of His Majesty wearing his Saudi keffiyeh (headdress) and
robes. Thirty-nine years later this watch still keeps time accurately.
In the course of the meal, the King handed me the eye of a sheep, a
favor accorded guests of honor. I had been warned beforehand that
this might happen and was prepared to gulp it down like an oyster,
hoping that as I did, I could maintain eye contact with my host
while avoiding eye-to-eye contact with the object he was extending
to me. All went well.
I remained five days in Riyadh on that first visit. There was not
much to do or see then except to promenade on the main street, King
Abdul Aziz Street, with one large building after another in varied
stages of construction.
At the request of the King, founder of the Arab League Abdulrahman
Azzam Pasha entertained me at his home with a dinner in typical
Arab fashion. We sat on the ground, and the food was laid out in
front of us. We kneeled and picked it up with our fingers, eating
without Western implements. Great fun!
On my wall at home is a memorable picture of this al fresco dinner.
Among those in attendance was Sheikh Yussif Yassin, who took me out
to his small boat for coffee. He was one of those distinguished
Arabs who had fought alongside Lawrence of Arabia against the Turks.
I had barely returned to my home in New York from this first trip
to Saudi Arabia when King Saud arrived aboard the Queen Maryon his
initial visit as a reigning monarch to the United States. He was so
angered by a personal attack, made even before he arrived, by New
York Mayor Robert Wagner Jr. that the Saudi monarch expressed his
desire not to land in New York harbor, but to fly directly to
Washington, where he was due to meet President Eisenhower at the
White House. Cooler heads prevailed, however, and the King and his
entourage boarded a tender which brought them from the ship to
Battery Park, where a majlis had been set up to receive guests.
Here His Majesty received the official welcome from Henry Cabot
Lodge, then the U.S. representative to the United Nations, and
greeted 200 U.N. diplomats and other dignitaries.
I was present as a welcomer, and afterward Aramco Vice President
Terry Duce offered me a ride back uptown. We had just settled into
our accelerating car as part of a long cavalcade bound for the
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, when everything abruptly came to a halt—one
could hear the screeching of tires. From the King's lead car his
military aide (the same one who had earlier welcomed me to Saudi
Arabia) jumped out and headed toward the tender tied to the dock.
There a Saudi servant handed over to him little Prince Mashur (whom
the King had brought with him for medical treatment of lameness
resulting from an attack of polio, then a scourge in the U.S. as
well as in Saudi Arabia). Every one of the multitude of cameramen
present took a picture of the little boy being warmly hugged by the
military attaché. Every newspaper in the world prominently printed
this shot.
The quite accidental photo of the little lame son of Saud captured
the American public's fancy. Until then, following Mayor Wagner's
politically inspired attack, the press had been calling the King an
"anti-Semite," "a slave owner," and an "oil merchant of death,"
with all the venom the Zionist-controlled media could generate. But
the appearance of the King's lame son changed everything.
For the rest of his visit, King Saud was referred to as the loving
father of the appealing child with big brown eyes who had come to
visit American doctors to "improve his walking."
Some newspapers credited the Aramco people hosting the King in the
U.S. with a public relations coup in bringing about this new Saudi
image. Nonsense! The media's sudden "discovery" of the little
prince in the glare of auto headlights was the purest of accidents.
No Hill and Knowlton trick had brought about this happy ending to
the first visit of a Saudi monarch to America, the most
unpredictable country in what must have seemed to Saudis of the
time as the mysterious, inscrutable West.
Alfred M. Lilienthal is the author of What Price Israel?, The Other
Side of the Coin and The Zionist Connection.
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