Chinese Missiles in Saudi Arabia
- Posted by Justin Higgins on December 2nd, 2007 in
What if terrorists, other than Iran, were getting weapons from China? What if somehow, someone was funneling support to radical militants from inside the communist state? It's happening, and it's scary. FOX News has the story:
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi Arabian newspaper said Sunday that suspected Al Qaeda terrorists were allegedly able to smuggle eight Chinese-made missiles into the kingdom before they were arrested as part of a terror sweep.
The daily Okaz, which is deemed close to the government, quoting unnamed officials as saying militants wanted to use the missiles to allegedly target hotels and other buildings in the kingdom.
The newspaper did not further describe the missiles.
The Saudi Interior Ministry last week announced that it made its largest terror sweep to date, arresting 208 Al Qaeda-linked militants in six separate arrests in recent months. One of the alleged terror cells was led by a non-Saudi missile expert, the ministry said.
There is great news inside this article, the fact that Saudi Arabia is fighting al-Qaeda linked terrorism. The bad news is that Saudi Arabia is still a sharia-following hellhole, and that this still means terrorists have the ability to get powerful weapons from countries like China. When are we going to crack down on our supposed allies as hard as we are cracking down on our enemies?
Of course-
-S.A. is fighting Al-Qeda. When the royal family (or elements of) aren't paying off the angry muslims and deflecting their anger towards the US, they themselves are the #1 targets of the evil terrorists.
Its all part of their clinging to their lives of insane privilege and poser, more than likely. I can't imagine anyone, outside of the Bush Whitehouse, accusing the Saudis of doing the right thing.
Of course, if they really wanted to take the wind out of fundimental Islam, which feeds into the evil terrorists, they would disperse some of that oil wealth down into the population, start hiring actual saudis for lots of jobs (rather than importing in laborers from the UAE and Africa) and maybe, just maybe, start changing the social fabric a little bit with some real liberalism. You know, the kind of stuff that the Royals promised they would do when Bush the Elder decided to use US troops to fight a war they wouldn't during Gulf War Part 1, like letting women drive and other things I can't remember right now.