If there is one thing I can agree with nana on, it's that we should perhaps save Iran for later... Our immediate focus should be nuking the Saudi scum and Pakistani bastids... these countries are home to the most lethal type of muslim terrorist... In the name of the Civilized World the time has come to redeploy our efforts from Iraq and into the cesspits of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia... Amen...
Coinz: >The true Christian Faith makes no provision for >violence. The Islamic religion is structured and >rooted in violence and revenge. There we go...just what the world needs -- yet another individual who proclaims yet another "TRUE" faith. JB
NOoooo! Not Pakistan, not yet. I have a sizable position (investment) with a company from that country. So please, not before I liquidate! Thank you very much.
Well, see, that's the thing... I live in Southern California, and the real estate prices are in the highest SPIKE / BOOM the world has EVER seen, let alone for just this local area.... It would make sense for extremists to blow themselves up here because this area is the mecca of US capital representation - The land/housing here has turned platinum, not gold, platinum. Our area is the apex of what the USA is all about: Fat cats getting richer and richer off of paupers - it is truly the richest eating the poorest, therefore, as Candy points out, it is the MOST evil place. If you're not making $1,000 PER DAY, and you live in Southern California... you're rolling downhill like dog droppings - it is just a matter of time before the American Money Monster gets you too - only exception may be if you already own, free and clear, a home here. Therefore, I really don't care - go ahead blow up So Cal, you Islamic Extremists - ain't gunna wilt MY dick none - I rent! Besides, my modified Cobe can outrun a nuclear blast, heh.
Israel is not exactly what you'd call a friendly neighbour - nor is any arab state bordering up to Israel. The problem will probably sort itself out in some way within some 50-150 years, and most probable the biggest bombs will win. Let them all have a whack at it ... they all need to hit rock bottom - as in stone age - before they get to their senses. Some israelis want to the arabs to perhish and vice versa; it'll probably even out in the long run. The question is - how do we benefit from the conflict in an efficient manner ? Keeping them at some lower stages for prolonged epochs would make for easier handling. Keep feeding the fire and having a strong fire/hatred running will keep them busy for a long time. So let Israel do the bombing - they have the proper inspiration and background to do the hands-on work - just make sure they don't "run out of gas" easily, so they won't be overrun so easily. (irony)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1228497,00.html Paying the price for incompetence Gunmen who carried out a weekend killing spree in Saudi Arabia escaped after yet another security fiasco. It is time for the interior minister to go, writes Brian Whitaker Monday May 31, 2004 How on earth can a small group of gunmen go on a shooting spree that kills 16 or more people, become totally surrounded by security forces on the ground and commandos hovering in helicopters overhead ... and then escape? The answer is "very easily" - at least in Hollywood films and in Saudi Arabia. Three of the four men responsible for the weekend carnage in Khobar got away, according to the interior ministry. The only reason why the fourth man did not escape, apparently, was that he had been injured and the others left him behind. It is not, by any means, the first time that Islamic militants in Saudi Arabia have got away in the face of odds worthy of Steve McQueen. The most glaring example occurred last year. It began when an unidentified man blew himself up at a flat in Riyadh and Saudi officials suggested he had been preparing a bomb that went off prematurely. (As often happens in the kingdom, this was a case of the police stumbling on a plot by accident rather than through smart detective work.) The trail from that incident led to a group of 19 or more suspected militants, but when the police swooped, the men came out shooting. Some of the suspects tried to drive off in their own car but - in the predictable tradition of great movie chases - it wouldn't start, so they hijacked another vehicle and disappeared. A search of the car and a flat where some of the men had been staying revealed hand grenades, 380kg of RDX (a specialised military explosive), AK-47 rifles, bullets, computers, communications equipment, travel documents, cash, and various items used for disguise, according to the Saudi authorities. Officials then trumpeted their success in "foiling" a major plot. There was just one small problem: the fugitives were still at large and on May 12 the group launched a devastating series of suicide attacks on housing compounds in Riyadh that left 35 people dead, including nine of the attackers, and almost 200 injured. There is no doubt that Saudi Arabia is in the throes of an insurgency aimed at toppling its monarchical regime. It may not be as serious as the insurgency in Iraq, but it is likely to get worse. The militants are ruthless and smart, and the Saudi security forces are not up to dealing with them. Neither is their boss, Prince Nayef, the interior minister. In any sensibly run country there would by now be a great deal of public debate about Prince Nayef's future. Not in Saudi Arabia, though. For one thing, the prince's tentacles stretch well beyond the interior ministry and into the Saudi media. Prince Nayef has run the interior ministry for almost 30 years, on supposedly Islamic principles which include extracting confessions through torture and executing people for numerous offences other than murder - such as witchcraft, adultery, sodomy, highway robbery, sabotage, apostasy (renunciation of Islam) and "corruption on earth". One of the results of this, as the kingdom's ambassador to Britain noted in a TV interview yesterday, is that Saudi Arabia has very little "normal" crime. Well, it is reassuring to know that your wallet is safe, even if there is a chance of being randomly shot dead when you stop at the next traffic lights. Although it is always best to take what politicians say with a pinch of salt, Prince Nayef is notorious for making statements that are either silly or unreliable. He initially claimed that Saudi militants were not involved in the September 11 attacks on the United States, blaming the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and/or Zionists instead. He also tends to say one thing to Saudis and the opposite to foreigners. Announcements from his ministry regarding arrests often turn out to be wrong or contradictory. The problem is not just the way Prince Nayef runs his ministry. As much as anyone in the kingdom, he is responsible for creating and perpetuating a climate in which Islamic militancy can flourish, for suppressing liberal voices that could play a vital role in challenging extremism. He is also in charge of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Suppression of Vice (the dreaded religious police) which, in the midst of the most serious security challenge the kingdom has ever faced, spends its time monitoring the length of people's sleeves and the hairstyles of Saudi youths. By any standards, it is time for him to go. The trouble is, competence is not the main qualification for running the interior ministry. Because of his position in the royal pecking order, it is almost impossible to remove Prince Nayef without upsetting the delicate balance of factions within the ruling family. If he stays, though, it will be worse in the long run. The choice for Saudis is a stark but simple one: tip Nayef overboard now, or sink with him later.