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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Oh you mean how the Saudis just made up shit to distract attention!

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...davidpallister

    The Saudis didn't make it up.. They let it stand so the Brits could save face. There was NO booze war.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    The Saudis didn't make it up.. They let it stand so the Brits could save face. There was NO booze war.
    Yes the Saudis invented that to distract attention, they just couldn't admit to there being terrorists.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3028083.stm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Yes the Saudis invented that to distract attention, they just couldn't admit to there being terrorists.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mid...st/3028083.stm
    Derek Plumbly was the British Ambassador to KSA.. Everywhere he went there were bombings. It was a quickly organized bombing to implicate the Palestinians. Everyone in the kingdom knew there was NO bootleggers turf war.

    Plumbly was a spook.

    Referring to the 2000 Riyadh Bombing, Gordon Logan wrote that was Plumbly "routinely knighted to cover up the cock-up on his watch".

    According to journalist Neil Mackay he was 'one of the key figures' in an alleged disinformation operation called Operation Mass Appeal from the late 1990s in the run up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

    Same thing happened in a resort town Sinai in 2005 when Plumbly was ambassador to Egypt.

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    When the British gave up their empire in the fifties and sixties they started a long gradual decline into being nothing but a pointless little rock in the North Atlantic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    Derek Plumbly was the British Ambassador to KSA.. Everywhere he went there were bombings. It was a quickly organized bombing to implicate the Palestinians. Everyone in the kingdom knew there was NO bootleggers turf war.

    Plumbly was a spook.

    Referring to the 2000 Riyadh Bombing, Gordon Logan wrote that was Plumbly "routinely knighted to cover up the cock-up on his watch".

    According to journalist Neil Mackay he was 'one of the key figures' in an alleged disinformation operation called Operation Mass Appeal from the late 1990s in the run up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

    Same thing happened in a resort town Sinai in 2005 when Plumbly was ambassador to Egypt.
    Yes, I can read as well as you, the difference is I think is mostly bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kudzu View Post
    Derek Plumbly was the British Ambassador to KSA.. Everywhere he went there were bombings. It was a quickly organized bombing to implicate the Palestinians. Everyone in the kingdom knew there was NO bootleggers turf war.

    Plumbly was a spook.

    Referring to the 2000 Riyadh Bombing, Gordon Logan wrote that was Plumbly "routinely knighted to cover up the cock-up on his watch".

    According to journalist Neil Mackay he was 'one of the key figures' in an alleged disinformation operation called Operation Mass Appeal from the late 1990s in the run up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

    Same thing happened in a resort town Sinai in 2005 when Plumbly was ambassador to Egypt.
    I have already read that crap before, the simple truth is the Saudis were severely embarrassed by the presence of AQ in their country and needed some scapegoats. That you buy into it says much about you and your partisanship.

    https://www.economist.com/node/1785400

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Yes, I can read as well as you, the difference is I think is mostly bullshit.
    I was in Arabia for a couple of weeks that May.. There was no trouble.. The Brits were blowing each other up in an attempt to blame it on Arab terrorists.

    It was a truly ham fisted screw up on the part of the Brits.. It wasn't AQ.. By then AQ was settled in Yemen.

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