Monday, February 18, 2008

Nice country you got here; shame if anything were to happen to it...   [Mark Steyn]

David linked to this over in the Frumistan province of the NR caliphate, but it's worth a second nod. This is an important story in its glimpse of the sheer scale of Saudi corruption:

Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.

Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced "another 7/7" and the loss of "British lives on British streets" if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.

Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.

He was accused in yesterday's high court hearings of flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family.

The oleaginous Prince Bandar was formerly the long-long-serving Saudi ambassador to the US. When a company is willing to pay a billion quid - two billion dollars - in bribes, it's difficult to know what humdrum restraints such as the law can do. The Saudis, who are the chief exporters of an ideology pledged to our destruction, have pretty much bought up everyone in the western world they need to. I would love a presidential candidate pledged to reverse this. 

02/18 10:06 AMShare