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tecelote Donating Member (645 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 03:44 AM
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US envoy accuses Saudis on Iraq
Source: BBC News

The US ambassador at the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, has accused Saudi Arabia of undermining efforts to stabilise Iraq.
Mr Khalilzad said he was referring to Saudi Arabia in an article last week in which he said US friends were pursuing destabilising policies.

His comments came just hours before a Middle East tour by the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and the Defence Secretary, Robert Gates.

The two top officials will visit Saudi Arabia and Egypt together.

Ms Rice and Mr Gates are expected to ask Saudi King Abdullah for greater cooperation on Iraq.

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Mr Khalilzad told CNN in an interview that his opinion piece for the New York Times last week was referring to Saudi Arabia among other countries.

"We would expect and want them to help us on this strategic issue more than they are doing. And at times, some of them are not only not helping, are doing things that undermine the effort to make progress," he said.



Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6921737.stm
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 06:17 AM
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1. The US ambassador at the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad's pals at PNAC
own all this crap. This guy is as bad as the last US ambassador at the UN. Bush always goes from bad to worse.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 07:53 AM
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2. The Saudis could give a shit about us except for money
What do the Saudi Royals have in common with most people in the US? Nothing. If it wasn't for their money and oil, they would still be nomadic goat herders in the desert or bandits, preying on pilgrims on their way to Mecca.

Feh!
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 08:33 AM
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3. wink wink...knod knod
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donkeyotay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-30-07 05:49 PM
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4. Whose faWlt is it that this War is a toWtal Disaster?
Is it the Dead Enders?
Is it the Insurgents?
Is it the Sunnis and the Shites?
Is it Zarqawi, Alibi, or Baghdadi?
Is it the Defeatist Democrats?
Is it the Cut and Run Liberals?
Is it the Iranians?
Is it Hezbollah?
Is it al Qaeda in Iraq?
Is it the Saudis?

WWWhose faWlt could it be?

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