An axis of junkies

[Oggy]

From The Guardian.

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Classified pages in the Congress report on September 11 have stirred curiosity about the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia, says Julian Borger

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Whoever had the bright idea of classifying it should have known that, just like Nixon's missing minutes, those pages would attract more attention than the other 800-plus put together.

Consequently, attention has been focused on a subject that the Bush administration would prefer to be ignored: the strange, dysfunctional and incestuous relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia. The bond is far more relevant to the events of September 11 2001 than the absurdly-hyped connection between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida.

More....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1013484,00.html

How much corruption there is in the world!

[G_j]

1. I found this interesting

..something I didn't know about Saudi Arabia, " Officially, it spends 16% of the country's GDP on arms, more than any country on earth, even though its security is essentially guaranteed by US forces. Even after those forces leave by the end of the year, they will not be far away, in Qatar and Kuwait."

that explains quite a bit.