Safer Without Saddam In Power?

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Bin Laden's tape earlier this month was his first message directed specifically at Saudis in years, and it was issued 10 days after militants attacked the U.S. consulate in Jiddah, killing nine people.

Bin Laden praised those who carried out the consulate attack and urged his followers to attack the kingdom's oil installations to weaken both the West and the Saudi royal family.

In May, Saudi militants attacked oil company compounds in Khobar, 250 miles (400 kilometers) northeast of Riyadh, and killed 22 people, 19 of them foreigners. Earlier the same month, attackers stormed the offices of an American company in Yanbu, 350 kilometers (220 miles) north of Jiddah, killing six Westerners and a Saudi. All four attackers died in a shootout after a police chase in which they dragged the body of an American from the bumper of their car.

On April 21, five people, including two senior police officers and an 11-year-old girl, were killed along with the suicide bomber in an attack on a government building in Riyadh.

In November 2003 a suicide bombing at a Riyadh housing compound killed 17 people, most of them Muslims working in Saudi Arabia.

And last night, Militants in the Saudi capital launched coordinated car bombings against the police ministry and a troop recruitment center and battled security forces in attacks that caused oil prices to jump and signaled that Muslim extremists are keeping up their fight despite the kingdom's crackdown on al-Qaida.

Seven militants were killed in the gunbattle with police in a northern district of Riyadh, Al-Arabiya television reported. The clash broke out about the same time as the the two car bombings — a remote control blast near the Interior Ministry and a suicide attack on the recruitment center.

BOY!!! I SURE AM GLAD SADDAM IS GONE! I'm sure all those westerners killed in Saudi, that American Company that was attacked, and those American Consulate workers all went to there graves more peacefully knowing Saddam was out of power.

Maybe we can pull even more resources out of Afganistan, where Bin Laden is, and show those Iraqis what it means to be LIBERATED!

YeeeeHaaaaw! Mission Accomplished!

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[ChoicestHops]

The Middle East needs some help. The tv they show the people is pretty insane. There's a recent report that tells how Palestinian television declares mandatory klling of Jews. The dictatorships are brainwashing people, no wonder they are so willing to die for a wrong cause.

[Cyrus]

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The Middle East needs some help. The TV they show the people is pretty insane. The dictatorships are brainwashing people, no wonder they are so willing to die for a wrong cause.

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Well, if we were to go by quality of television to determine a nation's sanity, I'd say most Americans would be walking around dressed in Napoleon costumes by now.

[natedogg]

Wasn't it Howard Dean who got excoriated by Bush and the press when he said "we're not safer today than yesterday" after Saddam was caught? I remember reading the quote and thinking "oh duh restate the obvious you dimwit" and then being shocked that people piled on him for it.

I guess they wanted several months of actual demonstration of the fact before acknowledging it....

natedogg