Yesterday, while speaking at a college in Virginia, President Obama laid the blame of high oil prices at the feet of speculators: Obama said that global oil supply is adequate and that speculators are driving up prices significantly. “It is true that a lot of what’s driving oil prices up right now is not the […]
To keep the record straight on the details about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, I want to do a quick recap: In 2007, under Bush, two of Abdulmutallab co-conspirators were released from Gitmo and sent to Saudi Arabia. (source) Abdulmutallab was given a visa to the United States in June 2008, despite being on the terrorist watch […]
I am really curious to hear how the wingnuts spin this one: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al […]
From Bush’s buddies: The sentencing of a widow to 40 lashes for mingling with two young men has sparked new criticism of Saudi Arabia. Khamisa Sawadi, who is Syrian but was married to a Saudi, was convicted and sentenced last week for meeting with men who were not her immediate relatives. The two men, including […]
The talk today will be this: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year. The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected […]
I really don’t know what to take away from this: The United States has asked four oil-rich Gulf states for close to 300 billion dollars to help it curb the global financial meltdown, Kuwait’s daily Al-Seyassah reported Thursday. Quoting “highly informed” sources, the daily said Washington has asked Saudi Arabia for 120 billion dollars, the […]
We seem to be seeing a lot of these stories anymore: A Hong Kong cargo ship loaded with 36,000 tonnes of wheat bound for Iran was hijacked on Tuesday by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, near the Yemeni coast. The latest example of piracy came as a Saudi supertanker, seized by pirates on Monday […]
Bill has really lost it. Now he is trying to repeat the lies Hillary told about her Bosnia trip: Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife’s tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago. In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton defended his wife’s mistake in claiming that she landed under […]
Citigroup is getting ready to announce thousands of job cuts. They are also looking for new money and some of that money is coming from Saudi Arabia. So we now have that nation’s largest bank being sold in chunks to other nation’s. Bush economics are great!
Bush’s latest attempt to start World War 3: The Bush administration said on Monday it had notified Congress of plans to sell Saudi Arabia a package of advanced arms in what officials have described as an effort to counter growing Iranian military clout. That is how Bush promotes peace in the Middle East – buy […]