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Diclotican

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4. KoKo
Sat Aug 30, 2014, 09:05 PM
Aug 2014

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KoKo

Saudi-Arabians is indeed a country who play both ways at the same time - and a lot of it come fro the Bush years - but it was known at least from the 1990s that Saudi-Arabia had given money - by the millions to groups who was extreme it its ways - and it was with some merits - it was proven in 2004 - when Saudi-Arabia was been attack by an group who was part of Al-Qauda - after denying paying more "Ransom" to the group - as part of the way to safeguards Saudi-Arabian interest in the region - The Al-Qauda had since 1991 when the Iraq-Kuwait war was going on - been paid a lot of money each year - to not attack Saudi-Arabian interest - and more to the point Westerners who was in Saudi-Arabia working on its oil fields - them self was rather not interesting in doing the grout work - it was more easy to let "others" lesser people do the manual jobs - and let the saudi-arabians sit on the top... And many western ex-pat lived in Saudi-Arabia - or in other parts of the UAE - and was paid rather handsomely for their job - even if the population in SA was starting to be rather in deferent - or in some cases - starting to be angry about the Westerners who was working on all the programs and installations them self was not inter sting of doing - or in many cases do not had the education to do them self - specially after 9/11 many expiates from Europe and US experienced a lesser friendly tone from the population - and in many cases it was starting to be so dangerous - that the families of the ex pats who was living in Saudi-Arabia had to leave to their own countries - as it as to big a risk for them to live in Saudi-Arabia - it this was a matter of fact - even before 9/11 2001... After it was blowing up really fast - and many discovered that their friends turned 180 on them - and was suddenly not talking outside of their job anymore... Even a large salary do not make up for that... and many ex-pats was therefore finding other - more satiable places to work, either in UAE - or in other places of the world - where the populations was less dangerous to live with....

ISIS or IS is a mess - a dangerous mess - who for the most part spring up from the fact that regimes in the area have for decades - been paying groups to do their own dirty jobs - things that the current states could not do - or was afraid of doing - groups like ISIS and the IS State is the result of all this - it was not helping when US attached Iraq - and more or less destroyed that country - with an incompetence I am sure people will write big books about even after a century or two - mostly because they did all the wrong things - at the same time - it was a complete failure from the start to the end - and the end result is a country who is divided by ethnically - political and religious lines - who we who was against the Iraq War warned against - again, and again - and then again... And was told we had no clue about how things really was in the real war - or that we was supporters of the Saddam regime - something I believe most of was not - even if we had brain enough to not fall for that silly war... And Sadly enough - we was in the clear - we was far more in the know than the Bush administration ever was....

And it would be very vice for us - in the western world - to first clean our own house - and then do the right thing when it came to ISIS - or IS as they want to be named now - and to punish the ones who for decades have helped this groups to flourish - and to win so much power - if we had frozen all of the money the royal family of Saudi-Arabia had in Western banks alone - we would have been able to paid for most of that "cleaning up the house" in Iraq, Syria and the middle east as it is in the billions worth of money - the saudi-arabian have in western banks - billions who they have stolen from their own people over many decades - and who should have been used to make their future better than the past.... and I guess - if the Saudi-Arabian royal family -and the other royal households of the UAE had lost their fortunes in the West - (after all they are happy about their interest rates in Western banks) they might had to leave their shiny city's and their marvelous lifestyles - with all the bling and blang - and big private jets - to a more modest living where they had to explain them self to a population who is young - poor and angry - and who is more or less supported 100 percent by the oil revenues alone as most of the countries there are not exactly powerhouses when it come to industry... rather the opposite...

As my dad once told me - he had been a sailor back in the 1950s - they was a rag-tag nation back then - and will possible be that when the oil is no longer there - then they would just go back to their camels - and ride into the desert and doing what they have been doing for centuries - their great city's will just disappear in the desert - and in a century or two - the silliness would be all to se... I'm not sure if he is right on the cue there - but I guess he was a smarter man than I was


It was BBC world who break the news about the saudi-arabian princess - who got arrested with 6 million dollar on her - who she could not explain what was about - but I guess compared to in Europe - the US was kind of left out of the news - mostly because US was all about 9/11 2001 - and not to say the bloodthirsty for going to a war with Iraq... And i am also sure - if the whole 9/11 report had been given a full disclose - the Saudi-Arabians would have been in a lot hotter water then it was - specially as it was rather known - that S.A was a country who had given a few millions now and then to exactly the type of groups who had attacked US... And where most of the Bin Laden family who was in US was collected - and mysterious enough vanished from the US - at a time when most aircrafts was not allowed to fly at all...

The connection between SAUDI-ARABIA and the extremist is clearer now than it was back then - but if even I was able to see the connection back in the early 200s - then smarter men than me should have seen the connection...

Diclotican

why is this not surprising? niyad Aug 2014 #1
KoKo Diclotican Aug 2014 #2
Thanks for sharing that, Diclotican KoKo Aug 2014 #3
KoKo Diclotican Aug 2014 #4
Cut the purse strings. CJCRANE Aug 2014 #5
Saudis will not fight ISIS themselves. PeoViejo Aug 2014 #6
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