Source URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5218227/
Title of URL: "Saudi prince: Zionism to blame for terror attack"
Quoted from URL:
"...Last month, an attack on contractors at the Saudi oil facility in Yanbu killed six Westerners, two of them Americans. Senior Saudi officials told the world al-Qaida terrorists were to blame and al-Qaida claimed responsibility.
But tape obtained by NBC News reveals that, inside Saudi Arabia, on Saudi television, Crown Prince Abdullah told a strikingly different story about who was to blame.
NBC News translated Abdullah's remarks from Arabic: 'Zionism is behind it. It has become clear now. It has become clear to us. I don’t say, I mean... It is not 100 percent, but 95 percent that the Zionist hands are behind what happened.'
Other senior Saudi officials reaffirmed the claim that supporters of Israel — Zionists — were behind the terror attacks.
Prince Nayef, the Saudi Interior Minister said, 'Al-Qaida is backed by Israel and Zionism.'"
The last quote is worthy of a soundbite of the irony, oddity and zaniness of this brave new world. |