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Old 11-14-2003, 07:34 PM   #2
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Nixon was not the only president open for sale. Basically, look at how decisions are made. If decisions constantly favor big money and campaign contributions, then you know where Khashoggi's predecessors are visiting. A visit by Saudi crown prince Abdallah to Crawford TX was not just a chance to wear the same hat and ride the same range as Vladimir Putan. When Ariel Sharon started attacking Palestinian diplomatic convoys with helicopters, what do you think got Sharon to stop that - and never do it again. Much influence is bought liberally by both Americans and Saudis. Saudia Arabia, specifically Abdallah and Bandar, got Sharon to stop those attacks. Its not hard when the right people are getting commissions especially for defense contracts.

Asad knew how to solve the problem of people being educated by right wing extremists - in the mosques. Iraq and Egypt did much the same. Saudia Arabia, on the other hand, is using Islamic fundamentalism to its benefit. That dog will eventually bite back. Ask a Russian. He will tell you the war in Chechnya is being financed by Saudia Arabia with the tacit approval of the US. The war in Georgia, Turkmenistan, Ubeckistan, and even the western province of mainland China is even more complex. And the US is in the middle of all of it. We are building new bases in every one of those locations - except China.

But Saudia Arabia stands in a very volatile situation, not the least of which is due to the addiction of a royal family (numbering tens of thousands) to money and how they get their money. And so we list some names that one must know to be able to follow what could be the next Iran.

The King is Fahd. His brothers are Sultan, Na'if, and Salman. They don't particularly like each other but must ban together for survival. The crown prince and future king is Abdallah. A son who appears to want Fahd to terminate much if not all the corruption. Abdallah is not popular even with Fahd especially when he is always at odds with those other powerful members of the House of Sa'ud. Conflict will be inevitable if he opposes what makes them all so rich. Its not called a kleptocracy for nothing.

Jawhara al-Ibrahim and her son Azouzi have setup gatekeeping on the king now that a stroke may have even turned the King into a brain dead body - kept alive only by machines. They were not interested in his mind - just that his heart kept working. Bandar, the face best known as Saudi ambassador during the 1990 Gulf War and also fully involved in Oliver North's Iran Contra affair, is the son of Sultan.

And all this while, the many crown princes conspire to find new sources of income. A government best defined as a ** kleptocracy **. Among some of the most powerful friends in this soap opera is the well known 'master of leaks' Henry Kissinger. Yes he too is still quite active having discovered how to earn money in this political jungle.

But notice nothing of the Muslim Brotherhood is listed. Therein lies the problem. Those who see things only in black and white, such as Richard Perle of the American Enterprise Institute (opinions therefore only from the perspective of a political agenda - reality be damned) see everything in one dimensional terms of 'them' and 'us'. 'They' is always relabeled Al Qaeda. The words Muslim Brotherhood never mentioned since that term exposes some administration lies. No wonder Perle was in direct confrontation with everyone from Richard Holbrook to even George Wills on Last Week with George Stephenapoulis (8 Nov 2003). It was an all-star roundtable discussion where virtually everyone finds the administration's positions flawed, erroneous, or just plain dangerous. And yet Richard Perle represents a current (and myopic) US foreign political agenda. An agenda that does not even acknowledge the Muslim Brotherhood.

Another important term to watch for is Yamama - which could become the reason for a major world crisis - possibly being the straw that breaks a camel's back.

Probably 90% of the readers here have never before heard much of this. It has taken years to collect these and so many other little stories and agendas. Finally Robert Baer put them together. This is the first essay that finally put the pieces together cohesively.

By collecting so many little pieces and facts, most know I strenuously opposed the Iraq war for many logical reasons. We (most unfortunately) are now observing much of what I feared would happen. We created a power vacuum ripe for the Muslim Brotherhood. Those same sources have long been saying that Saudia Arabia is a closest regional ally. But because of how we are joined, we have permitted, if not encouraged, a severe cancer to grow inside that ally. And we may have created a power vacuum just up north. But then virtually the entire world was warning us. George Jr was too smart to listen.

Some being so manipulated by political pundits to instead label the Saudi's as a 'secret' enemy. A very complex story. One that we have no choice but to spend the next decade being bled dry from because we got into it without sufficient knowledge. We must now figure out how to get out of our quagmire. Currently we don't even have an exit strategy for Iraq or Afghanistan. We are diplomatically and militarily that deep in the muck called Middle East - and getting in deeper as the commission checks keep flowing to the elite. Better understand why it could get much worse.

George Sr first got us in. He only got us partially out. George Jr apparantly loves playing in the mud - not smart enough to see that it was quicksand.

This post should be a wakeup call to all those who have been using the George Jr White House as their only source of facts. Afghanistan was a doable situation. Iraq will be many long years in the making - or another convert to the religious right extremists called Muslim Brotherhood.

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