2004_05_01_archive

A Brief Foray into an Internet Cafe

I won't be doing this too often, there aren't that many and I'm too

old for their typical clientele.

Many thanks for all the good wishes, I am safe but there's too much

activity around for me to use my normal link. Thanks for all the

emails but please excuse the lack of reply, I'm sure you'll

understand.

Anyway, I just had to come on air because of the latest piece of

idiocy from our rulers. Forget what I ever said about Crown Prince

Abdullah being relatively reasonable - he's completely lost the plot.

Prince Nayif, on the other hand, has always lived in a mad world of

his own.

We Are at War With Terrorists, Says Naif

JEDDAH, 8 May 2004 -- Saudi Arabia is in a state of war with

terrorism, Interior Minister Prince Naif declared yesterday. But

he also said efforts at communicating with extremists had been

effective in bringing a number of them back into the fold.

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Speaking to top military and civilian officials in Jeddah last

Saturday when four terrorists went on a shooting spree in Yanbu

killing five Westerners and a National Guard officer, the crown

prince said he believed Zionists were behind most terrorist

attacks in the Kingdom. But in a press statement after the attack,

Prince Naif blamed Al-Qaeda.

"I don't see any contradiction in the two statements, because

Al-Qaeda is backed by Israel and Zionism," he said.

So there you have it. It's official, our Interior Minister says so.

It's all the fault of the Jews, just like they teach us in school. Al

Qaeeda is a front for the Mossad. Osama Bin Laden is really a Jewish

kid from the Bronx, went out one day to buy some bagels but somehow

ended up in Afghanistan where he led all those good Arab boys astray

and got them to practice blowing things up with historic Buddha

statues. But you have to admit that the Jews are clever, the way they

threaten themselves with oblivion; there's nothing more deceptive than

a double-bluff.

Anyway, it'll be easy to pick them up at the roadblocks. This is the

photo of the man that all the cops will be looking out for.

Clearly it's only the US's spectacular PR disaster in Iraq that has

prevented this getting more headlines. It typifies our two Arab

diseases - self-denial of the blindingly obvious, and blaming everyone

else. With attitudes like that permeating the highest levels of

government, we can be assured that our War on Terrorism will continue