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Another sign of how deeply jihad sentiments are embedded within Saudi society. From SIA News (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
(Washington DC, February 25, 2006)... In a sign of weakening loyalties to the ruling tribe of Al-Saud, two Saudi suicide bombers who attacked the Abqaiq gas plant Friday, hail from two leading Saudi Najdi families with numerous members occupying leading official positions in the absolute monarchy.The first suicide bomber Abdullah AbdulAziz AlTwaiajri's, is relative to AbdulAziz Al-Twaijri, King Abdullah's closest advisor for over 50 years, and among the most influential men in the country. Khalid and Abdul Mohsen Al-Twaijri are secretary and advisor for the King consecutively. Ahmed Othman Al-Twaijri is a member of the Shoura Council, and Major General Saad Al-Twaijri is the head of the Saudi Civil Defense. Numerous other members of Al-Twaijri family occupy political and security positions.
Similarly is the case of Mohamed Saleh Al-Ghaith, who is a relative of Wahhabi cleric Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Ghaith, the head of the Saudi religious police.
Posted by Robert at February 27, 2006 6:50 AM
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This report says that these guys are all relatives. In a tribal culture where cousins marry cousins, of course they are related. They are all related. It's one big happy family. There is the occasional family spat like the 1979 Mecca seige and for the most part it's all just a family affair. Same goes for UAE. Hey, every family has a few bad apples. Of course the difference with these guys is that their bad apples want to kill millions of people, and would in a New York minute if they could get their hands on the weapons.
The point is, they all know who is who and who is where all the time. Nobody "hides" in Saudi Arabia. I lived there for five years. You can trust me on this one.
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at February 27, 2006 8:27 AM
Well, wonders never cease when it comes to Islamofeces. And here the Saudis bought space and ran newspaper ads that, "They were our friends." What a load of crappola!!!
Posted by: Ironman Hondo at February 27, 2006 10:33 AM
Seems like the problem is islam, to me.
Posted by: 00Buck at February 27, 2006 12:54 PM
I wish ALL t.v. stations would start playing the Theme from the Godfather behind every further bit of footage about Islamic violence.
From Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Jordam Syria, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Chechnya, ad absurdum.
(Maybe instrumentalized on an Oud?)
Let's speak musical truth to malevolent power.
"Leave the marzipan cannoli, Don Abu, take the gun..."
Posted by: profitsbeard at February 27, 2006 2:17 PM
Not even the police-state of Saudi Arabia, where the security services and the army are supplemnented by the ever-present mutawwa, or religious police, can control everyone. And when the local terrorists are relatives of the best-placed Saudis, as these apparently were, or as Bini Laden was, so that even the Saudi officials can be buffaloed, why should the American government be so sanguine in its judgdments about all the Muslim Arabs who will, through the incidents of ownership, have much greater knowlege of security matters at 21 American ports? Why should it assume that it knows best? Or, in a variant, that its sudden ally the United Arab Emirates, knows best?
What an assumption.
Posted by: Hugh at February 27, 2006 3:45 PM
they are all inbred saudi, no wonder they have a few screws loose! with so many wives per husbad, there many half siblings, and l am sure many bastards as well.. and so you finally get inbreeding!
Posted by: Lulu at February 27, 2006 6:31 PM
Here, then, is the payoff from reading JW regularly. One can read that the Abqaiq suicide bombers are all from wealthy families, well educated, and well connected to the royal family, and the response is "Of course they are!".
Whereas the Middle East Experts (tm) continue to operate on a long-ago-discredited theory that the jihadists are uneducated simpletons who are easily manipulated by one or possibly two radical imams, and that they are downtrodden and hopeless and humiliated due to the actions of the West. As each attack occurs, the Middle East Experts (tm) again explain their theory, and wonder aloud how again these particular terrorists don't match the profile, but rest assured, most of them do.
Instead of sharing in the experts' continual state of bafflement, JW readers can enjoy the knowledge that there really is some order to the jihadists' chaos. The jihadists' goals really are well defined and clearly stated. Once we give up old preconceptions, the picture suddenly snaps into focus.
Posted by: special_guest at February 27, 2006 7:54 PM
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