Saudi king slams UK for not doing enough to combat terrorism Update: Brits say Saudis didn’t warn them of anything
posted at 11:00 am on October 29, 2007 by Bryan
Your insanely head-spinning irony of the day.
Abdullah told the BBC that Britain was not doing enough in the war on terror. He made the comments hours before arriving in London for a state visit.
“I believe that most countries are not taking this issue too seriously, including, unfortunately, Great Britain,” he said through a translator. “We have sent information to Great Britain before the terrorist attacks in Britain, but unfortunately no action was taken and it may have been able to avert the tragedy.”
Backing up from the specifics of the London attack and what the Saudis may or may not have shared about it, who has done more to radicalize Muslims around the world than Saudi Arabia? Who funds radical madrassahs from the Washington suburbs to Karachi to Somalia to Hamburg and Londonistan? Who supplied 15 of the 19 terrorists on 9-11? Who gave us Osama bin Laden, for that matter?
But it’s the UK that’s not doing enough to fight terrorism?
How about turning off the Saudi petrodollar spigot that gushes funds to terrorists all over the globe, King?
Update: Maybe King Abdullah knew about 7/7, forgot to tell the British, but thought he had?
In an interview with the BBC ahead of his visit, King Abdullah said the fight against terrorism needed much more effort by western countries such as Britain, and that al-Qaida continued to be a big problem for his country.
“We have sent information to Great Britain before the terrorist attacks in Britain but unfortunately no action was taken. And it may have been able to maybe avert the tragedy,” he said, speaking through an interpreter.
A senior Foreign Office spokesman suggested that reports of the king’s comments may have “skewed” his meaning, and pointed to a report last year by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee that found there was “no specific intelligence” of the July 7 plot.
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Wow. That’s about the most jet-colored pot in the world calling the kettle black.
I’m still laughing nervously at the utter absurdity.
MadisonConservative on October 29, 2007 at 11:02 AM
What the Saudi royal family did to stay in power is somewhat different than what they are doing now. As I recall, and my memory is hazy on this, they funded the wahhabist sect to keep them off their backs. More or less, you do that crap elsewhere and we will leave you alone. Once AQ decided the time was right to bring it on their “home soil”, the Saudis made some changes.
I would not be at all surprised that they fed information to the Brits, just as a matter of long term survival.
Krydor on October 29, 2007 at 11:07 AM
I would like to know exactly what information they shared with the UK. I don’t think the UK is doing enough either. They coddle terrorists and hate preaching imams.
That said, it is a ‘pot and kettle’ issue. Allow religious diversity in Saudi Arabia and then we’ll talk.
ThackerAgency on October 29, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Ha! That’s like the democrats raising taxes when they’re in power and then complain about the economy when the Pubs are in charge.
Tony737 on October 29, 2007 at 11:14 AM
In a related story, Lindsey Lohan slams MADD for not doing enough to promote sobriety.
thirteen28 on October 29, 2007 at 11:23 AM
Jaw dropper. What an arrogant fraud this man is! How many terrorists are Saudis? How many other nameless Saudis are the Brits supposed to hunt down? That he should have the cajones to even say this proves his complicity. Why am I reminded of Bill Clinton and his “I tried to kill him” in reference to bin Laden?
Phonies all.
Connie on October 29, 2007 at 11:29 AM
Maybe King Abdullah’s “Chutzpah” comes from the fact that the Brits didn’t hang suspected persons by meat hooks as the Saudi King would have done.
abinitioadinfinitum on October 29, 2007 at 11:30 AM
From the Saudi perspective, there’s terrorism, and then there’s killing Jews.
Terrorism is trying to overthrow the Saudi government.
Jew killing is something both sides can get behind.
NellE on October 29, 2007 at 11:46 AM
State of denial, no doubt.
fogw on October 29, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Abdullah is probably right. How many of the radical preachers are actually on the MI5/MI6 payroll feeding valuable intel to the crown about the affairs of radicals in practice in Egypt, the so called Palestinian territories, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia?
Abdullah’s probably angling to get the Brits to stop relying on these preachers in the UK as a pipeline to information on the stability of Saudia Arabia and Pakistan.
gabriel sutherland on October 29, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Why does a male dog lick himself there?
Because he can.
Who’s dumb enough to call the King to account for Sharia and terror funding and then watch the only oil producer who will boost output when another oil producer cuts back to hurt us, say no, the next time we
wantneed a favor.We have plenty of untapped oil fields and plenty of room to build refineries, we could be at least a lot more independent than we are, instead the Saudi King tells us its all our fault, he holds hands with the Pres., the first lady is suborned and the King gets a pass.
Whatever happened to walk tall and talk proud America?
Speakup on October 29, 2007 at 12:29 PM
The Saudis still support Wahabi Madrassas (sorry if misspelled)and created one in Virginia recently. Their oil money supports terrorism and terrorist acts. This turkey’s statements are laughable.
dogsoldier on October 29, 2007 at 12:52 PM
My thought also. Maybe the Saudi king sees England in the century he lives in, the Dark Ages.
Kini on October 29, 2007 at 12:59 PM
Speakup,
Do you find it as ironic as I do that the environmentalists’ preventing us from drilling more oil and building more nuclear plants actually plays into the hands of the Saudis and the terrorists?
Back before Putin started his mission to resurrect the Soviet Union, I would have suggested that we offer to extend the Alaska Pipleine across the Bering Strait and expand operations in the Siberia oil fields. Now, I am not so sure it would be a good idea, but others may disagree.
Lancer on October 29, 2007 at 1:24 PM
UK SLAMS SAUDI TERROR FINANCER IN JAIL
There’s the headline from a sane world.
profitsbeard on October 29, 2007 at 1:49 PM
Of course you know what this oil tick means by “not taking terrorism seriously” is Britain is not getting to their knees and accepting pisslam fast enough.
Dadzilla on October 29, 2007 at 2:23 PM
Perhaps the RAF could nuke Riyadh. That would be a step in the right direction.
thejackal on October 29, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Absolutely, and liberals gain triple from preventing oil and energy production increases, they
gainmanipulate the sympathy’s of the public and foreign oil dependence produces more national angst that liberals use to create more public dependence on them and transnational companies and globalist Republicans (though some aren’t arguing too much) are made to look bad because they’re forced to look elsewhere for resources.I don’t think pipelines to anywhere or trade in general is the problem, its the dependence that’s killing us (literally) and its the manufactured hyper-demand of artificially cheap goods that’s bankrupting us.
Just more examples of how liberalism robs us of our dignity, steals our liberty and gravitates us ever more towards cradle to grave control of our lives.
Speakup on October 29, 2007 at 2:35 PM
Once they had built their state up and had cash to spare, the Saudis decided to export Wahhabism, putting more than $80 billion into the effort since the 1980s. That’s why Wahhabi missionaries, trained in Saudi Arabia, have spread out over the globe, spreading their message of hate.
America is not excluded. Wahhabi clerics have steadily taken over mosques in the US until 80% of them are radicalized. They’ve monopolized the flow of Muslim chaplains into the prison system, too. They’re establishing mosques in storefronts, sometimes building mosques quietly in order to establish colonies in the US which they intend to populate through immigration and hyper-reproduction. This is all part of the insane Wahhabi scheme to take over the world.
Where ever the Wahhabis go, violence follows. When the Wahhabis established mosques in southeast Asia, it wasn’t long until weapons were smuggled in and terrorists slipped in using the mosques as bases. The worldwide campaign of terror is a product of the worldwide Wahhabi missionary campaign. Virtually every terrorist atrocity has a thread leading back to Saudi Arabia, the nexus of Islamic evil.
The leader of the Sep 11 attacks is Saudi. So were 15 of the 19 skyjackers. The doctrine upon which they were acting was standard Wahhabi venom as taught in Saudi schools, mosques, and media. The $500K which funded the attacks came mainly from Saudi Arabia, some from the Gulf states.
This same King Abdullah, who has no formal education, also insisted after Sep 11 that no Saudis were involved, that innocent Saudis were singled out for blame due to American racism. Abdullah himself told a Saudi audience that the Jews were to blame. Long before Sep 11, when Al Qaeda was bombing Westerners, Abdullah put the Western victims on trial for bombing themselves, their confessions extracted by torture, sentenced them to death, and then made a show of pardoning them. All this demonstrates how far the Saudis, being pathological liars, will go to shift the blame for their murderous acts to others, however unlikely.
King Abdullah can bring most of Islamic terror to a halt by stopping its Saudi funding. As it is now, Saudi Arabia maintains a covert foreign policy of bloody religious imperialism against the entire non-Muslim world.
The problem is that the wicked Saudi princes have agreed, to maintain their power, to funnel billions of petrodollars to the Wahhabi clerics to do their worst against the world. Until that financial link is severed, Islamic terror will continue. The answer to terror is to destroy Saudi Arabia, send its princes packing, and drive the Wahhabi clerics who survive back into the desert where they can preach their hate to the camel spiders and scorpions.
Tantor on October 29, 2007 at 2:48 PM
It is easy and beneficial for the Magic Kingdoms ruler to say this. A little extra smoke with the mirrors always helps.
BL@KBIRD on October 29, 2007 at 8:11 PM