The Sinister Saudi Lobby

Those scoundrels who accuse supporters of Israel of undermining American interests, are the ones who are actually undermining American interests with their financial connections to that hell-hole Saudi Arabia and its filthy, fowl, inbred royal family. It is such a filthy, barbaric culture which has never progressed since medieval times. Saudi “men” are particularly hideous looking, physically repulsive creatures who walk around with tablecloths on their heads and robes.

These Saudi lobbyists should be considered traitors who ought to be arrested and sent to Gitmo. They sure as hell aren’t real Americans. As far as Saudi Arabia itself is concerned, that country ought to be declared an enemy terrorist state which we should bomb from Riyad to Mecca and Medina, targeting every mosque in the country in the process, as well as every property of that disgusting terrorist-supporting royal family. Saudi Arabia should be turned into rubble.

Now getting to the subject at hand. Hugh Fitzgerald of Jihadwatch warns about the dangerous power of the Saudi lobby in America and that we must put a stop to it.

A Jihad Watch reader recently noted: “When Israel attacked Iraq’s nuclear reactor in July 1981, John West (Ambassador to S.A. 1977-1981) sent a letter to the House of Foreign Affairs Committee asking that punitive action be taken against Israel. As ambassador, West provoked major controversy when he facilitated the contracting of a private public relations firm by the government of Saudi Arabia to lobby for the sale of F-15’s.”

John C. West's old friend Crawford Cook was, at West's urging, hired by the Saudis. On the campus of the University of South Carolina, at some "Center" named after Ernest Hollings (himself a big promoter of the Saudis, as he was a denigrator of Israel), you can find the names of both "John C. West" and "Crawford Cook."

But then there is James Akins, in a class by himself. He was the American ambassador to Saudi Arabia during that critical year 1973, and finally had to be fired even by Kissinger for his blatant behavior. Imagine what James Akins sent back to Washington about OPEC and the quadrupling of oil prices. Do you think he warned anyone that this was dangerous, given what Saudi Arabia was like, because much of that money was likely to be used abroad to promote the spread of Islam? Do you think James Akins -- who still insists that Israel "deliberately" attacked the U.S.S. Liberty during the Six-Day War, which at this point, after the release of the Israeli pilots' tapes, no one except convinced antisemites could possibly maintain -- warned Washington about the future uses of that oil money?

What about Raymond Close, who was C.I.A. station chief in Jeddah, or was it Riyadh, from 1970 to 1977, again during the critical years when policy toward newly-rich Saudi Arabia might have been differently crafted if accurate information about the attitudes of Saudis toward Infidels had been accurately conveyed? Close took early retirement and then immediately went into business with two well-connected Saudi businessmen, one of them a former Saudi intelligence head. When do you think he started getting those job offers from the Saudis -- after he retired, or before? And he then went on to be involved in the banking scandal (was it the BCCI? I can't remember) and various arms transfers, and then of course continued writing about American foreign policy and the need to jettison Israel and be grateful to Saudi Arabia for all it has done for us, and is trying to do. For all I know he continues this to this day, from his home in Princeton. Just a few years ago another contact and sympathizer of his got him a gig as a "Stimson Fellow" at Yale -- these people are all over the place...

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