File 911: The Saudi Connection

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Links shown below may have blown away, but, before giving up on them, be sure to check whether the articles can be located elsewhere via </b><A HREF="http://www.google.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.google.com/"><U><B>Google</b></U></A><B> or have been preserved in the amber of the </b><A HREF="http://www.archive.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.archive.org/"><U><B>Internet Wayback Machine</b></U></A><B>.</b></div> <div> Mark Steyn, <A HREF="http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20011015/736765.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/c"><U>"Saudis Are Behind All the 'Root Causes'"</U></A> (10/15/01). Does support for the Sa'ud dynasty still serve American interests?</div> <div> Seymour Hersh, <A HREF="http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?011022fa_FACT1" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?011022fa_"><U>"King's Ransom"</U></A> (10/17/01). <I>Cum grano salis</I>. The writer is a veteran leftist with a long record of lying, and he bases his account on anonymous sources. Still, if even a third of it is true, the picture of Saudi Arabia's decadent, deceitful and highly vulnerable monarchy is disturbing.</div> <div> Martin Peretz, <A HREF="http://www.thenewrepublic.com/012802/peretz012802.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.thenewrepublic.com/012802/per"><U>"Remembering Saudi Arabia"</U></A> (1/17/02). "The layers of Saudi deception are slowly unraveling."</div> <div> David Pryce-Jones, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment020102.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment"><U>"The Saudi Breakpoint"</U></A> (2/1/02). "The country and its ruling family have had a bad war."</div> <div> Tom Gross, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-gross020802.shtml" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/co"><U>"Time to Face Mecca"</U></A> (2/8/02). ". . . if America wants to prevent a major terrorist onslaught, there is one government above all others that must be reformed or replaced. And it is not that of Saddam, but the House of Saud."</div> <div> Mark Steyn, <A HREF="http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20020304/226809.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/c"><U>"With Friends Like the Saudis"</U></A> (3/4/02). Instability in the Wahhabi domain would be good news for the U.S.</div> <div> Mona Eitahawy, <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47458-2002Mar18.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art"><U>"The Died for Lack of a Head Scarf"</U></A> (3/19/02). This horrific incident of Islamofascist fanaticism by Saudi Arabia's "morality police" reads like an invention of the Black Legend - but it really happened.</div> <div> Rich Lowry, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry032702.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowr"><U>"Money, Money, Money"</U></A> (3/27/02). Saudi Arabia's deployment of oil wealth to proselytize for a fanatical religious cult poses a graver danger to the West than regimes like Saddam Hussein's.</div> <div> Rich Lowry, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry040402.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowr"><U>"Being Prince Abdullah"</U></A> (4/4/02). In the <I>de facto</I> ruler of Saudi Arabia, President Bush confronts not "an ally with whom he needs to 'consult,' but . . . a budding adversary he needs to bend to his will."</div> <div> Rich Lowry, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry040802.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowr"><U>"'What Is the Real Crime?'"</U></A> (4/8/02). Saudi Arabia's "moderate" ambassador to the U.S. defends terror as a weapon.</div> <div> Dr. Bob Arnot, <A HREF="http://www.msnbc.com/news/743041.asp?cp1=1" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.msnbc.com/news/743041.asp?cp1"><U>"Saudi Arabia's Illusory Press Freedom"</U></A> (4/24/02). A reporter who believed Riyadh's promises that he could work unhindered learns a painful lesson.</div> <div> Rich Lowry, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry042502.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowr"><U>"Abdullah's Bluff"</U></A> (4/25/02). A weakling tries to intimidate a superpower.</div> <div> Martin Sieff, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-sieff042602.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/co"><U>"The Saudi-Iranian Alliance"</U></A> (4/26/02). The convergence of a nominal ally and a bitter enemy poses a threat to American interests.</div> <div> Terry Eastland, <A HREF="http://theweeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/191keeuf.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://theweeklystandard.com/Content/Pub"><U>"The Saudi Gambit"</U></A> (4/29/02). "With the liberation of Iraq, the liberation of Saudi Arabia would be at least thinkable--a thought that horrifies the House of Saud."</div> <div> Jeff M. Sellers, <A HREF="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/005/26.82.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002"><U>"Flogged and Deported"</U></A> (5/7/02). How Saudi-controlled Arabia treats Christians.</div> <div> Sulaiman Al-Hattian, <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49812-2002May7.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/art"><U>"In Saudi Arabia, an Extreme Problem"</U></A> (5/8/02). A citizen of Saudi-controlled Arabia criticizes his country's government for appeasing Islamic extremists and calls on Saudi society to "start a tough process of social and political reform".</div> <div> Max Singer, <A HREF="http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1020943224635" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe"><U>"Free the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia"</U></A> (5/9/02). The oil wealth of Saudi-controlled Arabia derives from areas held only by conquest, not by affinity with the ruling dynasty.</div> <div> Israeli Defense Forces, <A HREF="http://www.idf.il/saudi_arabia/site/english/main_index.stm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.idf.il/saudi_arabia/site/engl"><U>"Documents Captured by the IDF"</U></A> (5/10/02). A selection of materials illustrating Saudi support for the Hamas terrorist network.</div> <div> David Tell, <A HREF="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/231lukti.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Pu"><U>"The Saudi-Terror Subsidy"</U></A> (5/10/02). If one looks at all closely, Saudi-controlled Arabia makes no real secret of its financial support of terrorist operations, including some that have killed Americans.</div> <div> Michael Barone, <A HREF="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020603/opinion/3pol.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/02060"><U>"Our Enemies the Saudis"</U></A> (5/25/02). "President Bush has said that we must have regime change in Iraq to be safe from terrorism. It is increasingly clear that we must have regime change in Saudi-ruled Arabia as well."</div> <div> Victor Davis Hanson, <A HREF="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/hanson.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/hanson"><U>"Our Enemies, the Saudis"</U></A> (7/1/02). "Even if we were not attempting to prosecute a war against terror, the time would have long since arrived to reconsider our relations with Saudi Arabia."</div> <div> Tony Snow, <A HREF="http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,57152,00.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,57152,00"><U>"A Clash of Cultures and Religions"</U></A> (7/8/02). An interview with a victim of Saudi religious persecution.</div> <div> Neil MacFarquhar, <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/international/middleeast/12SAUD.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/intern"><U>"A Few Saudis Defy a Rigid Islam to Debate Their Own Intolerance"</U></A> (7/12/02). The first glimmers of introspection in the Saudi entity, coupled with much evidence of entrenched bigotry against Christians, Jews and Westerners in general.</div> <div> Simon Henderson, <A HREF="http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002116" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feat"><U>"The Saudi Way"</U></A> (8/12/02). Evidence emerges of Saudi payoffs to al-Qaeda.</div> <div> Council of Foreign Relations, <A HREF="http://cfr.org/publication.php?id=5080" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://cfr.org/publication.php?id=5080"><U>"Terrorist Financing"</U></A> (10/17/02). This report of a CFR task force details al-Qaeda's sources of funding. The most widely reported and disturbing conclusion is that Saudi-controlled Arabia is a key element in the financial structure of terrorism. "For years, individuals and charities based in Saudi Arabia have been the most important source of funds for al-Qaeda; and for years, Saudi officials have turned a blind eye to this problem."</div> <div> Josh Devon & James Mitre, <A HREF="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-devon102802.asp" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/co"><U>"The Man Behind the Curtain"</U></A> (10/28/02). A portrait of the Saudi businessman who started the foundation that is today a principal source of funds for al-Qaeda.</div> <div> David Twersky, <A HREF="http://www.nysun.com/sunarticle.asp?artID=421" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nysun.com/sunarticle.asp?artI"><U>"Jews and Christians Are Apes and Pigs, Saudi Textbooks Say"</U></A> (10/23/02). What our "friends" in Saudi-controlled Arabia teach their children about the non-Moslem world.</div> <div> Susan Katz Keating, <A HREF="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5270" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Rea"><U>"The Wahhabi Fifth Column"</U></A> (12/30/02). ". . . we ignore to our peril the degree to which the Saudis spread extremist anti-Americanism. It is particularly unsettling that the Saudis stoke such sentiments here, in our own country. They do this by funding American outposts of the intolerant, militant Wahhabi form of Islam."</div> <div> James Kirchik, <A HREF="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=21467" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp"><U>"Singing the Praises of Dictators"</U></A> (1/30/03). 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