The Saudis haven't been much help since Sept 11, despite all the Saudi boots that Colin Powell has licked and his insistence on calling them "allies". They even tried to jack up oil prices, but that didn't work because the non-OPEC producers didn't comply with them. If it isn't bad enough that several thousand of their citizens are fighting against the U.S. in Afghanistan, and that Al Qaeda is composed largely of Saudis, they are now demanding that all Taliban of Saudi descent caught in Afghanistan should be turned over to the Saudi government. Read for yourself:
<< Riyadh wants custody of Saudis held in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia has demanded the custody of its citizens captured in Afghanistan and vowed to punish those who were criminally involved in the embattled country.
"These are our sons, we'll take them. Those who are criminally involved will be punished. But they are our responsibility... We hope other countries will do the same," Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said.
Many Saudis are believed to be among an unknown number of the so-called Arab-Afghans who, along with fighters from non-Arab Muslim countries, form the backbone of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.
On bin Laden, the Saudi foreign minister said, "He is not a Saudi citizen ... He is an international terrorist. I don't know the legal side of the argument, who has the right to him first."
Saudi Arabia stripped bin Laden of his Saudi citizenship in 1994.
"If the United States is going to catch him, I'm sure they're going to make a military tribunal and try him. Apparently, this is in the offing, isn't it?" media reports quoted the minister as saying.
He said, "We will pursue our rights as the legal order allows us to."
PTI >>
Are they out of their minds? Its enough the U.S. doesn't bomb the living sh|t out of them for not exercising greater control of terrorist outfits operating in their country. I don't know if oil is their biggest export or if its anti-American Islamic thugs.
<< Riyadh wants custody of Saudis held in Afghanistan
Saudi Arabia has demanded the custody of its citizens captured in Afghanistan and vowed to punish those who were criminally involved in the embattled country.
"These are our sons, we'll take them. Those who are criminally involved will be punished. But they are our responsibility... We hope other countries will do the same," Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said.
Many Saudis are believed to be among an unknown number of the so-called Arab-Afghans who, along with fighters from non-Arab Muslim countries, form the backbone of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network.
On bin Laden, the Saudi foreign minister said, "He is not a Saudi citizen ... He is an international terrorist. I don't know the legal side of the argument, who has the right to him first."
Saudi Arabia stripped bin Laden of his Saudi citizenship in 1994.
"If the United States is going to catch him, I'm sure they're going to make a military tribunal and try him. Apparently, this is in the offing, isn't it?" media reports quoted the minister as saying.
He said, "We will pursue our rights as the legal order allows us to."
PTI >>
Are they out of their minds? Its enough the U.S. doesn't bomb the living sh|t out of them for not exercising greater control of terrorist outfits operating in their country. I don't know if oil is their biggest export or if its anti-American Islamic thugs.
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