HI Bob,   
      
   On Sun 2039-Feb-06 13:35, BOB KLAHN (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
      
    RW> OF course, and one must remember that wahhabism, which is   
    RW> the root of al qaeda also has close ties to the muslim   
    RW> brotherhood in Egypt.  I've had much the same thoughts.   
      
   BK>  Except this arose so fast Al Qaeda didn't have time to set it  up.   
   BK> And the secularists are behind it in Egypt, the MB is   
   BK>  keeping a relatively low profile.   
      
   Mmmm, so far what I"ve been able to glean from various   
   sources have mentioned muslim on Christian violence as one   
   of the catalysts that set all this off in Egypt, and that   
   points directly to the MB and the Qaedas.   
      
   BK>  The Caliphate would be another dictatorship, and the people want    
   BK> democracy.   
      
   Many do, but there's the mb fly in the ointment.   
      
    RW> Which is why I would never support a war to defend Saudi   
    RW> Arabia and Kuwait.  A young man or woman serving over there   
    RW> for the U.S. must have his/her reading material censored to   
    RW> satisfy these barbarians and that isn't what we stand for   
    RW> in this country.   
      
   BK>  During the first Gulf War I was ranting how a Christian can't  even   
   BK> carry a bible in public. Our troops were built up in Saudi  Arabia   
   BK> over nearly a year. I was of the opinion we ought to take  out the   
   BK> Saudi Govt first.   
      
   I said much the same then, and for the same reasons.   
      
      
    RW> OF course they are.  Which is why I still don't understand   
    RW> how it was that our great federal bureaucracy could miss   
    RW> all the signs before 9/11/2001.   
      
   BK>  The FBI was investigating the tie between Saudi Arabia and   
   BK>  funding for Al Qaeda before 2001. The Bush administration shut    
   BK> down the investigation.   
      
   Acknowledged and agreed.  You notice in the joint committee   
   report of congress a bunch of information suppressed,   
   because they don't really want to acknowledge that publicly.   
      
   Anybody who's read on the subject a bit knows what was being obliquely   
   referenced in the joint committee report, but   
   heavily redacted from the public version.   
      
    RW> Sayyid Qutb and some of the   
    RW> founders of modern wahhabism were directly tied to the   
    RW> Muslim brotherhood in Egypt.  IT all is of a piece, and our   
    RW> so-called experts missed it.  They missed it because they   
    RW> chose to ignore it.   
      
   BK>  They missed it because it's Saudi, and the Saudis have the oil.    
   BK> Therefore they buy the politicians.   
      
   NOt even all of the FBI counterterror folks were aware of it however.  See   
   above.   
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   --- timEd 1.10.y2k+   
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