Saudi Clerics Point Militants Toward Iraq

[Career Prole]

LONDON - Fundamentalist Islamic leaders in Saudi Arabia are telling militants intent on fighting "infidels" to join the insurgency in Iraq instead of taking up Osama bin Laden's call to oust the Saudi royal family at home, say Saudi dissidents who monitor theological edicts coming out of the kingdom.

Iraq as a battleground offers the solution to a quandary facing the Saudi clerics who have to both placate the kingdom's rulers and keep their radical base happy.

"If they preach that there ought to be absolutely no jihad, they would lose credibility and support among their followers. So what they do is preach jihad — not in Saudi Arabia, but in Iraq," said Abdul-Aziz Khamis, a Saudi human rights activist in London.

"To them, Iraq is the answer to their dilemma."

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=736&e=1&u=/ap/20050124/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudis_iraq_dilemma

Thanks, buddy!!

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Hmmm

Some one should ask Bush what his stand on this is. Hahaha

[Career Prole]

2. Why, he'll tell you "most o' them Saw-dees are good people."

"Hard-workin', good, honest people. These others are just helping some Baathist hold-out Saddam loyalists who hate us for our freedom.
I've had discussions with the Prince...we've had some good discussions, and they were good...and the Prince has promised his full support in our fight to spread freedom and he's a good man. A good, hard-workin' honest man, and so...uh, next question?"

[Oversea Visitor]

4. Money talk

poor man walk. It is not a question hehe.

[Dhalgren]

3. This is actually one of the few "understandable" reasons

for our slaughter in Iraq. Caligula's good buddies, the Saudi royals, needed some place to vent off their militants. So, Caligula said, "Hey, why not let 'em go to Iraq and kill Americans? They can't do it IN America (the dumb-ass Americans would get pissy), but we could send a bunch of low-class, poor, uneducated, morons to Iraq and let your jihadists kill 'em off! How about that?" I'm sure the Saudi royal family really appreciated Caligula's "sacrefice"...