Posted by B-P on November 18, 2007, 9:52 am
> Perhaps we should have invaded Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq
We should have bombed the villages that the 9-11 hijackers came from
and we should have occupied the country and nationalized the oil
fields. After all, British and American companies *did* develop the
petroleum industry there.
> or, at the very least, sent Gloria Steinem over there to straighten them out.
Jews cannot enter Saudi Arabia. When I worked for a defense company
doing business with the Saudis, they wouldn't even talk to the Jews in
upper management.
The Jewish vice president arranged to send me over there on an
inspection tour, but decided that an inspection wouldn't solve the
problem, so he had a mechanic who was already in-kingdom fix it
instead.
Posted by Jeff Mayner on November 18, 2007, 1:46 pm
Jack Hunt wrote:
> wrote:
>> Jews cannot enter Saudi Arabia.
> When I was flying AWACS in Saudi Arabia, we had a Jewish man who had
> been assigned to the unit for a short period of time and he was
> worried that they wouldn't let him in the country. So on the way to
> the airport, we stopped and baptized him in a fountain in downtown
> Athens, Greece. Seemed to work. He got in his 6 weeks and left and
> nobody was the wiser - even though his last name was Speir.
Heh...
That's a pretty good story. Quick thinkin'. ;-)
Posted by Alan Moore on November 18, 2007, 3:12 pm
wrote:
>> Perhaps we should have invaded Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq
>We should have bombed the villages that the 9-11 hijackers came from
>and we should have occupied the country and nationalized the oil
>fields. After all, British and American companies *did* develop the
>petroleum industry there.
Actually, the 9-11 highjackers mostly didn't come from villages. They
were urban, and educated.
>> or, at the very least, sent Gloria Steinem over there to straighten them out.
>Jews cannot enter Saudi Arabia.
In this, you are mistaken. See, for example:
http://www.alfredlilienthal.com/kingandi.htm
>When I worked for a defense company
>doing business with the Saudis, they wouldn't even talk to the Jews in
>upper management.
Actually, the'll talk to almost anyone. Unless you can find a personal
connection, however, you won't do any business there. That's how
Calouste Gulbenkian got rich.
<snip>
Al Moore
DoD 734
Posted by Jack Hunt on November 18, 2007, 9:09 pm
> (He was site manager for the Riyad (sp?) airport construction).
Riyadh. That's where I flew out of on the AWACS. I was there when King Faisal
died and his son Fahd took over. Air Force One landed, right behind a C-141.
They dropped the ramp on the 141 and rolled out a couple of limos, and Vice
President George Bush got in and went to the funeral.
> My
>mom's diary is quite revealing and my dad's stories are either hilarous or
>damn scary.
All in all it was a pleasant 6 weeks for me. It was pretty hot but it was a dry
heat. Really. It got over 100 every day but we didn't have any trouble with
it.
>They never did get used to the public punishments for criminals (chopping
>off the hand of theives for example).
We called it Chop Chop square. The locals would push foreigners right up to the
front of the crowd for a good view. They didn't like it when you took pictures
though.
--
Jack
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