�Princess Haifa, the wife of the Saudi ambassador to Washington, gets a letter from a woman in Virginia she's never heard of complaining about steep medical bills. Being a friendly sort of princess, she immediately authorizes the Riggs Bank in Washington to make payment by cashier's check of several thousand dollars per month to this woman, no questions asked.

Of the $130,000 she receives from the benevolent ambassadress, Majeda Ibrahin signs at least some of the checks over to a friend of hers, who's married to a guy in San Diego who's helping two of the 11 September plotters.

How did Omar al Bayoumi, the penultimate recipient of the royal largesse, get to hook up with the two terrorists anyway? Well, there's another amazing coincidence. Omar happened to be at the airport in Los Angeles, heard a couple of fellows speaking Arabic, struck up a conversation with them and what do you know, one thing led to another, they seemed like decent coves and so, even though he'd never met them before, before you know it he's throwing them a big welcome party in San Diego and paying up the first couple of months' rent for them on the apartment next door to his. How was he to know Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhamzi had just jetted in from an al-Qaeda training camp and would go on to hijack Flight 77 and plough it into the Pentagon? Just one of those things, could�ve happened to any guy who wanders around airport concourses looking for perfect strangers to cover the accommodation expenses of.

Meanwhile, Majeda Ibrahin, the woman the princess was sending all that money to, turns out to be married to Osama Basnan, another buddy of the al-Qaeda duo, and one who subsequently celebrated 11 September as a 'wonderful, glorious day'. But here's an odd little thing: Mr. Basnan is known to have been in Texas in April when Crown Prince Abdullah and his entourage flew in to the state to see Bush at the ranch. Just another coincidence? Well, sort of: he's supposed to have had a meeting in Houston with some big-time Saudi prince who deals with 'intelligence matters'. This seems an unusual degree of access for some schlub from San Diego who's in the US illegally, as it transpires. He is variously described as a Saudi government agent and al-Qaeda sympathizer, as if these positions are mutually exclusive.

�it's very common, we're told, for House of Saud bigshots to help out their financially strapped subjects. As it happens, Majeda Ibrahin is Jordanian. But it would be interesting to know how many others, Saudi or Jordanian, were getting $130,000 from Princess Haifa in this period. Couple of dozen? Two or three?�

This is a Canadian journalist�s recounting of a Newsweek article of December 2 that describes the connections between the Saudi royal family and the September 11 hijackings. Obviously, there is more to American national security failures than CIA oversight and FBI negligence. And Saudis are as much if not more of a threat than Saddam Hussein.

But according to Saudi apologists, al-Qaeda hate the Saudi government and want to overthrow it. Interestingly, we see far more operations to kill Americans, Australians, Frenchmen, Balinese, Turks, and Russians than we see plots to overthrow Fahd and friends.

There are thousands of Saudi princes and all of them strangely avoid assassination. Statistically speaking, you're better off avoiding al Qaeda in Riyadh.

Clearly, the House of Saud has come to an arrangement with al-Qa'eda, and this arrangement involves, among other things, money. Those who are so quick to point at a Zionist conspiracy influencing the US government should examine the administration's relationship with Riyadh.

While Bush draws a simplistic line in the sand for sides to be picked, and says that anyone not for us is against us, it seems rather obvious the Saudis are not for us.

Seven of the nine biggest backers of al-Qa'eda are Saudi, and Riyadh has no intention of doing a thing about it; but the White House insists that Saudi Arabia is "a good partner in the war on terrorism."

15 out of the 19 hijiackers were Saudi, but Foggy Bottom's "visa express" program that allowed such blatantly lax standards in the issuance of visas to the Saudi terrorists. EG, Abdulaziz Alomari, friend of Mohammed Atta and Flight 11 hijacker, listed his home address on the application as "ALQUDOS HTL JED," a hotel in Jeddah. He checked "married" but listed no spouse. He left the "sex" and "nationality" boxes empty. He listed his occupation as "student" and didn't bother to pen in a school. Hani Hanjour, of Flight 77, listed his source of support as "my father," his nationality as "Saudy," his home address a PO box, his intended residence in the US as "AZ rent home" and the duration of his "visit" as "about three years." Khalid al-Mihdhar, Flight 77, listed his destination as "hotel" and his occupation as "bussnisman." Wail and Walid al-Shehri, brothers on Flight 11, claimed their occupation as "teater" and "student" and their employer/school as "South City," while their destination was "Wasantwn."

These people were all granted visas in blatant disregard for multiple laws governing their issuance.

The majority of the Guantanamo prisoners are Saudi, but the new rules requiring fingerprinting of entering Arabs apply to Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Sudanese, Lebanese, Algerians, Tunisians, Yemenis, Bahrainis, Moroccans, Omanis, Qataris...but not Saudis. In an interview with The Spectator, Ghazi Algosaibi, ambassador to the Court of St James's, when asked why so many Saudis were among the 9/11 killers, said "The answer is easy. It was much easier to get a visa for a Saudi."

At the specific request of the Saudi government, the US does not appoint Arabic-speakers to the post of ambassador. Rather strange to let your main man be taught the ropes by the House of Saud, but there is obviously a back-deal going on here.

Sources: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/terror/articles/visa011212.htm http://www.theosuobserver.com/news/313998.html http://www.usbc.org/profiles/0702visaexpress.htm http://www.nationalreview.com/mowbray/mowbray100902.asp

(this last one has links to .pdfs of the actual visa apps. Very interesting, very laughable�except that they resulted in the deaths of thousands.)

As I said in an earlier post, the Saudi Princes need to get the shit kicked out of them. Good research.

Looks like we didn't pay enough attention to the "white slaves" comment the Saudi Prince made in 1990.

Nox