Saudi chief justice caught on tape supporting Iraqi insurgents

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WASHINGTON - Sheik Saleh Al Luhaidan, seen in video seated to the right of the crown prince, is chief justice of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Judicial Council. His sermons and words carry great significance.

In an audiotape secretly recorded at a government mosque last October and obtained by NBC News, Luhaidan encourages young Saudis to go to Iraq to wage war against Americans.

"If someone knows that he is capable of entering Iraq in order to join the fight, and if his intention is to raise up the word of God, then he is free to do so," says Luhaidan in Arabic on the tape.

He warns Iraq is risky because "evil satellites and drone aircraft" watch the borders. But he says going is religiously permissible.

"The lawfulness of his action is in fighting an enemy who is fighting Muslims and came for war," says Luhaidan.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7645118/

[tabasco]

1. I'm so proud of our President.

He is really pressuring those Saudis to reform.

The next thing you know he will refuse to hold hands with King Abdullah.

[Disturbed]

2. "Democracy is on the march."

Right over a cliff.

[DulceDecorum]

3. In other news,

Dubya calls upon the citizens of 48 nations to go and murder off the Iraqi people in an unjust war.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030321-4.html

Make that 30 nations.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2862343.stm

Or 50.
Or was that 20?
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/10936384.htm



Never mind.

[jdj]

4. are we getting ready to invade Saudi Arabia or something?