Saudi Prince Scolds Clergy for Encouraging Young Saudis to Join Iraqi Insurgency

[BurtWorm]

From Iraq Slogger:

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3270

Saudi Prince Slams Clergy for Iraq Insurgency

Interior Minister Criticizes Religious Establishment's Role in Encouraging Youth

Posted 1 hr. 37 min. ago


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Riyadh, SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz al-Saud chairs a session as Gulf Cooperation Council Interior ministers and their delegations meet in Riyadh, 20 May 2007.



Saudi Arabia's Interior Minister has warned the conservative Islamic state's clergy that they should discourage Saudis, including their own children, from going to fight in Iraq.

In a speech before hundreds of clerics, Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz appeared to suggest that some members of Saudi Arabia's powerful religious establishment had not doing enough to prevent Saudi youth from joining the insurgency in Iraq.

"Do you know that your sons who go to Iraq are used only for blowing themselves up? Iraqi officials told me that themselves," a leading member of the royal family said in comments carried by state media.

"They are brought to put on explosive belts or blow themselves up in cars ... Innocents die. Are you happy for your children to become instruments of murder?" he added.

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The Prince confirmed that Iran is holding Saudi terror suspects, and acknowledged there may also be Saudis in Lebanon, but he denied that Saudi authorities had received any terror suspects from Iraq. “It is unfortunate that Iraq has become a fertile ground for training and assisting in terrorist operations,” he said. The minister said that those being trained in Iraq as terrorists were being exported to Saudi Arabia and other countries, a matter which he says is of “deep concern” to Saudi authorities.

[shain from kane]

1. Plant the seeds of destruction in the desert, and you will reap the whirlwind. As ye sow, so

shall ye reap. These people are so screwed up in their religious denomination domination.

[walldude]

2. Of course, after his buddy W capitulated and removed US Troops

from the "Holy Land" (which for those of you who don't know is why we were really attacked on 9/11, and of course that goes to show who really appeases terrorists) he'd be crazy to throw gas on the Iraqi fire...