Saudis Quotes - Page 7

• Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

  Thomas Friedman

  Als, Firsts, Terrorism

  Thomas L. Friedman (2002). “Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11”, p.356, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

  Michael McCaul

  Country, Real, Rights

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• India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.

  Rahul Gandhi

  India, Arabia, Century

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• India is going to be the 21st century's Saudi Arabia in terms of human resources

  Rahul Gandhi

  India, Arabia, Century

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• You become an anti-Semite. And as powerful as the Israeli lobby is, the Saudi lobby is just as powerful. In fact, the Saudis probably have more money to throw around, and they suborn former U.S. intelligence officials, former ambassadors, former generals to support them from within by lobbying the Congress and other American institutions.

  Michael Scheuer

  Powerful, Support, Facts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Osama bin Laden, who is a Saudi, feels himself to be a patriot because the U.S. has forces in Saudi Arabia, which is sacred because it is the land of the prophet Mohammed.

  Edward Said

  Land, Arabia, Sacred

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It's going to become clear that the impact of our policies rather than our way of life is what's attracting animosity and warfare on us. And I think there is going to be a surge from the bottom up that will begin to straighten things out. Because Americans, in the long run, are not going to want their daughters and their sons to die overseas so the al Saud family can continue raping Saudi Arabia's revenue.

  Michael Scheuer

  Daughter, Running, Son

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, over the long term. Because once again, it proved to Muslims that their governments couldn't protect them and would side with the enemy.

  Michael Scheuer

  Country, War, Government

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People are saying, "Oh my God, Saudi Arabia has changed." It's a contradiction. Do you want us to lead, or do you want us to play a supporting role?

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Play, People, Arabia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If the Sunni and Shia, or those nations that surround Saudi Arabia and those nations that gather around Tehran or Iran fight each other, that is the trigger that will bring about the War of Armageddon.

  Louis Farrakhan

  War, Fighting, Iran

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• Asking Saudi Arabia and Iran to work together, when they can't stand each other and are engaged in a proxy battle right at this moment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Iran, Battle, Together

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  People, Arabia, Legal System

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the Arab Spring was merely the prelude to a deeper and much farther-reaching upheaval in the region that has greater impact on countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia.

  Ian Bremmer

  Country, Spring, Iran

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA that sought to create an international religious extremist group to fight the Soviet Union.

  Jill Stein

  Religious, Fighting, Extremist Groups

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Thinking, Iran

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Over the last few years they have done a superb job in their fight against al-Qaida. As you may recall, our embassy in Jedda (in Saudi Arabia) was overrun some four years ago and a number of foreign workers went home because of violence against them.

  David Petraeus

  Jobs, Home, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different gears in operation from the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis.

  Julian Assange

  Wall, People, Doe

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Keys, Bolivia, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I also think now that Islamic terrorism is going to be front and center, there is going to be a new focus on whether this administration, the administration of Hillary Clinton at State, was permeated at the highest levels by Saudi intelligence and others who are not loyal Americans.

  Roger Stone

  Islamic, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems - where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?

  Chinua Achebe

  Doctors, America, Leaving

  "Things fall apart: Chinua Achebe and Nigeria" by Tolu Ogunlesi, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2013.

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• They [ Germany, Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] will fully understand. They're economic behemoths. They're tremendously successful countries, but we're subsidizing them for billions and billions of dollars.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Successful, Japan

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There's an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, not so long after she left the State Department, to her campaign manager John Podesta that states ISIL is funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now this is the most significant email in the whole collection, and perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the Clinton Foundation.

  Julian Assange

  Government, Qatar, Long

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Even the Interior Ministry in Riyadh was hit. Since then, the Saudis have employed a very intelligent and comprehensive approach to counter al-Qaida, including precise operations based on good intelligence, changes in their corrections facilities, superb strategic communications programs and a host of other initiatives - all of which, together, have helped Saudi Arabia achieve impressive results in their fight against extremists.

  David Petraeus

  Communication, Fighting, Intelligent

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Take a look at the Supreme Court decision that just authorized an effort by U.S. claimants against Iran for terrorist acts. What are the terrorist acts? The terrorist acts are bombings of U.S. military installations in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, which Iran is claimed to have something to do with. Well suppose they did. That's not terrorism. I mean if we have a military base in Lebanon that while we're shelling Lebanese naval ships, the Navy is shelling Lebanese installations and somebody attacks [that's not terrorism].

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Mean, Iran

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• The question about the Salafi is an important question as I say in Arab Awakening, and have often repeated since. I am really underlining the importance of this, because we really don't have very good memories. Remember - the Taliban in Afghanistan were not at all politicised in the beginning. They were just on about education. And then they were pushed by the Saudi and the Americans to be against the Russian colonisation, and as a result they came to be politicised.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Memories, Important, Awakening

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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