U.S. expected to order staff out of Saudi Arabia
 

something is just not right here...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The State Department is expected to order all nonessential personnel serving in the U.S. Embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia and their families out of the country in the coming days, a senior State Department official said Thursday.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...ats/index.html

Maybe Jedi is right.. finally going to turn the Middle East into Arabian Nights Disney. After it's one big parking lot, of course.

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i am saving my money for some land!

U.S. expected to order staff out of Saudi Arabia


Wonder why?? They might get killed? Why is it that it is always US people problem where others want to kill them?? There is an answer there that is always ignored.

Wait till that nice new embassy opens in Iraq... that was some fantasy from the Whitehouse. Can you see that place not being bombed to bits in the first year?? Again, I wonder why?

Does that make them pussies to? Like Russia who evacuated staff out of Iraq?

The situation in the ME and in Saudi Arabia have been deteriorating since the invasion of Iraq. The population is more and more seeing there leaders as collaborators with the US and as a result there are plenty of incidents and violence going on. Saudi Arabia is loosing on average one or two soldiers everyday.

I think you're right, the Parking lot is coming.....then Walmart ...then Ali Baba and the 40 Civilian Oil Advisors:Graucho

Of coarse not, it's clearly a heroic move.

im expecting more pull-outs to come, war is getting our of hand and so far no one can stop this, even if Kerry wins the election. Too much damage has been done

maybe hes about to nuke Saudi Arabia and wants all the americans out so he can have more personel for Iraq

same thought....

It whats best I guess. To get rid of potential non-essential, non-military hostages.

That means they are gonna leave the bin-laden family do their business alone I guess ... real fucked up thing I don't know what's comming up.

Nope, something is going to happen, I don't sleep well anymore, I sleep less whenever an Usama bin Laden tape is released.

Insurance companies cringe when I don't sleep, here is a little open source intelligence that should shed a little light on the subject.

al Qaeda Messaging/Attacks Timeline [.PDF]

Saudi Arabia = Controled by Bin Laden's family and always near a civil war . The country is very rich since they built most streets in the states.

do you think the US lead coalition is giving up its battle against Bin Laden or just another way to divert the attention of the public.... seems like a battle of chess moves

I predict the threads about The Apprentice will get more interest and responses. Heh. That's the sad world we live in.

Rictor:

:winkwink:

It looks even sadder when the ego of Trump has degenerated into a display for the masses...

Nope, we're in this for the long haul, Usama bin Laden wanted westerners out of Saudi Arabia, we're on the way out, but we now have Qatar and Iraq to make up for it.

Like it or not, nearly everytime Usama speaks, one of his cells commits some random act of terrorism somewhere where we have interests. I'm sure the folks in the SIGINT community belive that target is Saudi Arabia otherwise they wouldn't be asking all private U.S. and non-essential staff to leave the country.

Interesting, the US military pulled out of Saudi Arabia a while back and relocated in Qatar yet not to many people seemed to notice it.

Said that months/years ago.

It's the FINAL straw dudes. Everybody and their third cousin for the past 30 years fought each other tooth and nail to get a job in Saudi Arabia. You made friends and money by default.

It's a sign that things have broken down in a major way. Yet not all is lost. The Saudis are honorable people and very generous but they also don't tolerate double-dealing backstabbing bullshit either. They 'may' have found out something they feel isn't being addressed and told the present administration to fuck off.

It could be the other way around. Or a combination of the two. Regardless, this is a sign we should all be on our toes for some big-ass world changes and we should make sure we are on top of things 24-7. With the addition of delaying U.S. troop home returns and the unusual activity domestic in the filing division I'ld say a good bet a draft will be enforced if Bush is re-elected which he will be.

There's no doubt about that.

Too bad Star Wars III won't be released til next summer. We'd like to see how this all came out.

The Saudi Police caught Al Quaeda members who were preparing massive car and truck bombs in a multiple attack on the US Embassy and other areas where a lot of Amercans are.

Somehow a number of them then escaped. That's when the flash bulletin went out.