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...regime continues to allow Saudi imams to rail against Crusaders and Jews in much the same manner that al-Qaeda does. When the country's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, blamed the Yanbu outrage on Zionists, reformers felt he was once again appeasing hard-line opinion. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., seemed to acknowledge his government's shortcomings last week when he publicly called for mobilization against al-Qaeda and an end to sympathy for the extremists. "Neither the government nor the citizens are yet prepared for this crucial, fundamental stage to winning this...
...Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq, its Patriot Act clamping down on civil liberties and its cozy relationship with the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Ladens. Moore is particularly indignant that the President had a chummy White House visit on Sept. 13, 2001, with Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, from whose country 15 of the 19 hijackers had come, and that in the dire days after 9/11, when U.S. flights were grounded, two dozen of Osama bin Laden's relatives were flown out of the country without the FBI being allowed to question them...
...invasion and occupation of Iraq, its Patriot Act clamp on civil liberties and its cozy relationship with the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Ladens. Moore is particularly indignant that two days after Sept. 11, 2001, the President had a chummy White House visit with Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, from whose country 15 of the 19 hijackers had come; and that in the dire days after 9/11, when U.S. flights were grounded, dozens of Osama bin Laden's relatives were flown out of the country without the FBI being allowed to question them. Much...
...Politicians reward their biggest contributors, and the Bushes are no exceptions. Fifteen of the 19 September 11th hijackers were Saudis; but when Prince Bandar, the Saudi ambassador who is close to the First Family, dined with the President in the White House two days after the attacks, the mood was collegial, not angry. In the Iraqi ramp-up and occupation, the Administration has rewarded its Saudi and Texas supporters with billions in rebuilding contracts. As Blaine Ober, president of an armored vehicle company, tells Moore: the Iraqi adventure is ?good for business, bad for the people...
...account of the White House at war with Iraq was that, contrary to what Bush now says, the decision to go to war was made well in advance. We know this because, in an interview, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recalled telling a foreign official (almost certainly Saudi Prince Bandar) about the plans in January. (It now appears that Bandar knew of the decision before Colin Powell.) But the quote from Rumsfeld’s taped, transcribed interview with Woodward, in which he described telling Bandar that he could “take that to the bank this is going...