Middle East Thread

[Section_31]

I don't believe in no Pod.

I imagine you're a 'string'bean man?

 

 

Ahahahahahaahhaha!!!!!!!

[skend04]

Plane hijacked in Egypt, lands in Cyprus. Bomb on board apparently. Fucking nutjobs

Not terrorist related. He wants to speak to his estranged wife.

[General Dryness]

Religion of peas.

 

 

Osama bin Legume

[VladimirIlyich]

Not terrorist related. He wants to speak to his estranged wife.

She's not worth it mate.

[cloggypop]

I hope it's not Bob Spunkmouse.

[cloggypop]

Apparently the hijacker is Sheriff Fatman from the Carter The Unstoppable Sexmachine song.

 

[skend04]

She's not worth it mate.

Must be something about her? Good BJ technique perhaps.

[Stu Monty]

An implication rooted in a fantasy? Jolly good.

 

 

I think we're all aware that Israeli occupiers differ from Turkish, Jordanian and British occupiers in one fundamental way.

Once again we fall back on the crutch of anti Semitism.

 

So intellectually cowardly it's embarrassing.

[ZonkoVille77]

skend04, on 29 Mar 2016 - 09:41 AM, said:

 

Not terrorist related. He wants to speak to his estranged wife.

Just read the news. That's good so, at least there's no bombs involved.

 

Not sure if he's still not a terrorist though, cos if I had been on that plane you can be as sure as eggs is eggs that I'd be fucking terrified.

[Denny Crane]

So here's my holiday photos, the beach the pyramids oh and a photo with the wee man who hijacked the plane.

 

 

http://stv.tv/news/north/1348163-aberdeen-man-poses-for-photo-with-egyptair-plane-hijacker/

[Sputnik1]

So here's my holiday photos, the beach the pyramids oh and a photo with the wee man who hijacked the plane.

 

 

http://stv.tv/news/north/1348163-aberdeen-man-poses-for-photo-with-egyptair-plane-hijacker/

 

 

 

I'm undecided on this, yes it eventually turned out to be a nutter with nothing more dangerous than Adam Wests utility belt. Can't help but wonder how I'd feel if I was a passenger on that plane and someone was doing that with a potential suicide bomber. And it can't be a selfie if someone else took it. What the fuck was going through the stewardesses mind when he asked her to take a pic with him, it's equally mad and hilarious at the same time. 

[Section_31]

The lengths Arsene Wenger will go to to stay in a job. 

[dennis tooth]

http://falastinews.com/2015/03/31/video-cuffed-blindfolded-palestinian-kidnapped-man-shot-at-close-range-by-iof/

[Anubis]

So here's my holiday photos, the beach the pyramids oh and a photo with the wee man who hijacked the plane.

 

 

http://stv.tv/news/north/1348163-aberdeen-man-poses-for-photo-with-egyptair-plane-hijacker/

Rab C Nesbitt looks loads better since he jacked the drink in.

[Nightcat]

TroBono with his shit U2 band were apparently in Turkey,they sang to the refugees and then praised the IslamoNazi Turkey and their government for the handling of the Syrian refugee crisis. The same IslamoNazi government that systematically exterminates Kurds, has invited three neighbour countries, ripped off the refugees and used them as a leverage to get 6bn euros from the EU.

 

When this money grabbing, new world order charlatan passes away, the planet will be a better place.

[Mook]

I just hope The Charlatans don't see that.

[Dougie Do'ins]

Is there any chance this will actually happen ?

Saudi Arabia Warns of Economic Fallout if Congress Passes 9/11 Bill

WASHINGTON — Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration and members of Congress that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage, according to administration officials and congressional aides from both parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of intense discussions in recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the State Department and the Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic fallout from the legislation.

Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message personally last month during a trip to Washington, telling lawmakers that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.

Several outside economists are skeptical that the Saudis will follow through, saying that such a sell-off would be difficult to execute and would end up crippling the kingdom’s economy. But the threat is another sign of the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United States.

The administration, which argues that the legislation would put Americans at legal risk overseas, has been lobbying so intently against the bill that some lawmakers and families of Sept. 11 victims are infuriated. In their view, the Obama administration has consistently sided with the kingdom and has thwarted their efforts to learn what they believe to be the truth about the role some Saudi officials played in the terrorist plot.

“It’s stunning to think that our government would back the Saudis over its own citizens,” said Mindy Kleinberg, whose husband died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 and who is part of a group of victims’ family members pushing for the legislation.

President Obama will arrive in Riyadh on Wednesday for meetings with King Salman and other Saudi officials. It is unclear whether the dispute over the Sept. 11 legislation will be on the agenda for the talks.


A spokesman for the Saudi Embassy did not respond to a message seeking comment.

Saudi officials have long denied that the kingdom had any role in the Sept. 11 plot, and the 9/11 Commission found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization.” But critics have noted that the commission’s narrow wording left open the possibility that less senior officials or parts of the Saudi government could have played a role. Suspicions have lingered, partly because of the conclusions of a 2002 congressional inquiry into the attacks that cited some evidence that Saudi officials living in the United States at the time had a hand in the plot.

Those conclusions, contained in 28 pages of the report, still have not been released publicly.

The dispute comes as bipartisan criticism is growing in Congress about Washington’s alliance with Saudi Arabia, for decades a crucial American ally in the Middle East and half of a partnership that once received little scrutiny from lawmakers. Last week, two senators introduced a resolution that would put restrictions on American arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which have expanded during the Obama administration.

Families of the Sept. 11 victims have used the courts to try to hold members of the Saudi royal family, Saudi banks and charities liable because of what the plaintiffs charged was Saudi financial support for terrorism. These efforts have largely been stymied, in part because of a 1976 law that gives foreign nations some immunity from lawsuits in American courts.

The Senate bill is intended to make clear that the immunity given to foreign nations under the law should not apply in cases where nations are found culpable for terrorist attacks that kill Americans on United States soil. If the bill were to pass both houses of Congress and be signed by the president, it could clear a path for the role of the Saudi government to be examined in the Sept. 11 lawsuits.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-warns-ofeconomic-fallout-if-congress-passes-9-11-bill.html?_r=2

[jimmycase]

They'd have to find someone, anyone, able to buy $750b worth of assets or even a substantial part of that so no, I dont see it happening to any great effect.

[aws]

Why should the US be greatly bothered which foreign country buys assets owned by the Saudis?

[bonesman]

They'd have to find someone, anyone, able to buy $750b worth of assets or even a substantial part of that so no, I dont see it happening to any great effect.

China buys USA.

[Stu Monty]

[jimmycase]

China buys USA.

 

hardly. The Chinese economy's going down the bog.

[Red Phoenix]

I wonder if they'd be so arrogant if those 28 pages were released? A decade and a half, and they're still withheld from the public.

 

"I went into the soundproof, secret room here in Congress and read those 28 pages. And it was a really disturbing event for me to read those. I had to stop every two or three pages and rearrange my perception of history. And it’s that fundamental — those 28 pages….It certainly changes your view of the Middle East." - Thomas Massie.

 

"While the 28 pages are maybe the most important and the most prominent, they are by no means the only example of where information that is important to understanding the full extent of 9/11 have also been withheld from the American people. This is not a narrow issue of withholding information at one place, in one time. This is a pervasive pattern of covering up the role of Saudi Arabia in 9/11, by all of the agencies of the Federal government, which have access to information that might illuminate Saudi Arabia’s role in 9/11." - Bob Graham.

 

More here : https://28pages.org/quotable/

 

Focus on Saudi Arabia on this page : https://28pages.org/2015/01/11/must-read-quotes-from-last-weeks-28-pages-press-conference/

 

And from a recent report :

 

Some information has leaked from the redacted section, including a flurry of pre-9/11 phone calls between one of the hijackers’ Saudi handlers in San Diego and the Saudi Embassy, and the transfer of some $130,000 from then-Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar’s family checking account to yet another of the hijackers’ Saudi handlers in San Diego.

An investigator who worked with the JTTF in Washington complained that instead of investigating Bandar, the US government protected him — literally. He said the State Department assigned a security detail to help guard Bandar not only at the embassy, but also at his McLean, Va., mansion.

The source added that the task force wanted to jail a number of embassy employees, “but the embassy complained to the US attorney” and their diplomatic visas were revoked as a compromise.

Former FBI agent John Guandolo, who worked 9/11 and related al Qaeda cases out of the bureau’s Washington field office, says Bandar should have been a key suspect in the 9/11 probe.

“The Saudi ambassador funded two of the 9/11 hijackers through a third party,” Guandolo said. “He should be treated as a terrorist suspect, as should other members of the Saudi elite class who the US government knows are currently funding the global jihad.”

 

http://nypost.com/2016/04/17/how-us-covered-up-saudi-role-in-911/

[Section_31]

[Stu Monty]

The Saudis don't throw billions of dollars at candidates for US office as an act of charity.

 

They are paying for a service.