Saudi Arabia: King Announces 1.5 Billion Dollars for Lebanon

[seafan]

Saudi Arabia: King Announces 1.5 Billion dollars for Lebanon

Riyadh, 25 July (AKI) - Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has decreed donations totalling 1.5 billion dollars to Lebanon, the king said in a statement on a state television network on Tuesday. A total 500 million dollars have been earmarked for the reconstruction of Lebanon, and the King has authorised one billion dollars to be deposited in Lebanon's central bank to support the battered economy.

The king said that the Saudi government had been trying to bring a halt to the violence between Israel and Lebanon since it began on 12 July,...

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[jean]

1. he must be certain the central bank won't be bombed.

[hang a left]

2. Wow...Abdullah steps up.....

BIG TIME

[saigon68]

6. He has his Catamite to thank for it

[hang a left]

13. I had to look that word up

NOW I get it.

[saigon68]

16. He's Mr. Ganymede

He's Mr. Ganymede


http://www.answers.com/topic/ganymede

[DemoTex]

19. That quiver is about as phallic as it gets.

Need a XXX-Rating on that one!

[bluerum]

3. Goodness. I wonder if any will find its way to Hezbollah.

That's a lot of cheer to spread around.

[Buzz Clik]

5. One must suspect that it will.

[Marie26]

11. Does Saudi Arabia

support Hizbollah? It doesn't seem like it.

[bluerum]

17. That is popular perception. But if I had to bet on whether the Saudis'

were going to support Israel or Hezbollah, I would bet on Hezbollah.

They may not do it openly, and they may not flaunt it, but I would bet my last dollar that Saudi oil money is finding it's way to Hezbollah.

What do you think about the Saudi's who hijacked and piloted planes into the World Trade Center? Did * and his big oil friends stand up for the US and say fucking boo to Saudi Arabia? Uuuuuuuuhhhh no.

Instead they clandestinely flew the Saudi's out of the country while grounding every other plane in the country. The Saudi's have the west and this country by their tender parts and are using oil to control us.

Period. End of story.

Until our political leaders can clearly see this and develop the moral fortitude to stand up to big oil in some way - we will continue to be at their mercy.

[Virginia Dare]

28. And they promptly caved to the post-9/11 Saudi demands...

by quietly cutting and running from our multi-billion dollar military bases there, which were barely a decade old. Basically, the Saudis told us to get the fuck out and Rummy did, no questions asked.

[nealmhughes]

20. No! Saudi Arabia's government is officially Wahhabi, as Sunni as you

can get. To them the Shia are nearly apostate. Not to mention all that brotherhood stuff the Shia seem so fond of... The Saudi/Wahhabi group supports al Qaeda and the Taliban, good old fashioned fundamentalists who don't believe in women driving cars or elections, just the imans and the lash.

I think the Saudis are rather pragmatic, though. A too destabilized Middle East before the oil runs oil isn't acceptable. The tankers have to keep afloat and full of crude oil, not ballast water and the pipelines flowing. What they fear more than anything is the prospect of an Arab Napoleon -- as Nasser and Saddam Hussein attempted: secular, with liberty, fraternity and equality, and all that enlightenment rot ... elections, overthrowing the monarchies and their decadent offspring...sharing the wealth, you know, the stuff that monarchies don't like.

Meanwhile the Saudis have got to a point where they can do nothing by themselves. They need south Asians to clean their houses and Egyptians and Syrians to repair their Mercedes-Benzes, Americans and Brits and the French to supervise the oil production and Arabs from outside the peninsula to be the labor...

Invest wisely, Arabia Felix, for the well is going dry.

[bluerum]

23. That is what I keep hearing and seeing written. How does this explain

the money that they will give to Lebanon some of which I am sure they realize will end up with Hezbollah? How is fueling this conflict in their interest? I see no effort at peacemaking - just money being promised to Lebanon.

It makes no sense unless ones presumes that they have some affiliation or want to cultivate some affiliation with the Lebanese people and by default, Hezbollah.

[rubberducky]

4. Bush&Co are not going to like this!

[harun]

7. U.S. is giving a wopping 30 million (nt)

[gratuitous]

8. Kinda puts our measly $30 million in the shade, doesn't it?

Especially considering that we spend some 100 times that much (the $30 million) every month in Iraq.

[godai]

25. Does that include the flags?

There was actually a ceremony with this little pile of boxes surrounded by 2-3 flags and covered with a large flag. They never miss the opportunity for a photo-op.

[Nihil]

27. How strange ...

... I thought BushCo had made it illegal to show boxes with flags on ...

(Oh, it's only *incoming* boxes with flags that are forbidden to save
everyone's beautiful mind ... my bad ...)

[bluerum]

18. BushCo and big oil will do whatever the Saudi's tell them to do.

[Marie26]

9. Israel should pay for

the reconstruction. You broke it, you bought it.

[LostinVA]

15. Agreed n/t

[breakaleg]

22. Absolutely agree. It's unconsionable that they are able to rop

destroy a nation and then walk away scott free. They should be held responsible for repairing the damage they caused.

[frankieT]

10. i'm not sure on what side saudi arabia is

right now. I think they try to pay for their secret support for Israel's victory against Hezbollah.

[Virginia Dare]

29. Theyare on the same side that we are....

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[cboy4]

12. Why doesn't Saudi Arabia fork over some cash to help those poor civilians

in Gaza and the West Bank?

They're so poor and desperate. It's really sad.

[Kagemusha]

14. Israel can't impound money being given to Lebanon, unlike with the PA.

I'll just say this.

Rice pledged 30 million to Lebanon - in value, not cash - for the exact same purpose.

30 stinking million.

[wiley]

21. Good. Smart Investment. It will help Lebanon.

Let's hope no FEMA people are involved. When are the people of the US going to demand those who committed criminal acts through FEMA be held accountable? Throw EVERY Republican out of office. That's a good start.

[pokercat999]

24. What they really need are some longer range rockets and

a few F-16's, kinda even things out. No one likes a bully.

[Sven77]

26. lemme guess

these saudis are invested in the carlyle group, gotta fund both sides. the war can never end.

[The Backlash Cometh]

30. That's...our...gas...money.

Now we know where their gasoline windfall profit is going. They'll rebuild Lebanon!

[Bandit]

31. Price of oil he should get that back in a matter of months

If he really wanted a cease fire iot would happen, but oil keeps going up up and away and he gets richer and richer while other Arabs DIE.