So Sad, Too Bad: Saudi Prince AlWaleed Lost $7.9 Bill

By Debbie Schlussel

I wish that when Prince AlWaleed lost his $7.9 billion, American taxpayers didn’t bail him out by rescuing Citigroup. If the government hadn’t bailed out Citi, AlWaleed would really have gone to the cleaners. After all, he’s still worth many billions of dollars. And what’s the loss of a few billions to a multi-billionaire. He’s still worth between $10 and $20 billion.

Still, at least he got soaked a little. He is, after all, a major donor to homicide bomber telethons and a big hater of Jews, Israel, and America (he hates us, but he buys us).

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, seen just a few months ago as a bastion of Mideast support for banking giant Citigroup Inc., said Tuesday his Saudi Arabian conglomerate, Kingdom Holding Co., lost 29.7 billion Saudi riyals, or about $7.92 billion, in 2008.

 

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Obama’s first call to a foreign leader: the PA’s Mahmoud Abbas

                                           

Abbas, you will recall, is “moderate” in the eyes of the world because he wants to destroy Israel more slowly than Hamas does.

Another from our Not An Auspicious Beginning file: “President Obama’s first call ‘was to President Abbas,'” by Tom Baldwin in the Times, via JW

                    

“Closing Guantanamo Bay presents a clear and present danger to all Americans”

GOP Pushback Mounts on Gitmo

Obama to close terrorist ‘black sites’

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: President Obama is facing growing criticism from Republicans over hisorder to close the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with his decision to fulfill a well-known campaign pledge bringing an early test of his promised bipartisan cooperation.

A group of House Republicans quickly filed a bill that would prohibit federal courts from ordering the transfer or release of Guantanamo detainees into the U.S.

“Closing Guantanamo Bay presents a clear and present danger to all Americans,” said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee.

* Expect little help on Guantanamo inmates: German minister

* Obama begins ‘new era of responsibility’ /hysterical laughter ensues…

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Thursday ordered the closing of Guantanamo prison and may start naming troubleshooters for world hot spots like the Middle East and Iran as he moves swiftly to repair America’s tarnished image abroad.

More from Reuters: Obama orders Guantanamo shut

* Hamas: “We ain’t buying any Hope ‘n change”

* Obama vows he’ll ‘aggressively’ seek Middle East peace (Let’s throw the Jew down the well..”)

* Obama shuts down Gitmo, CIA prisons

* Hey, its cool to be a terrorist: Hicks may fight Gitmo verdict

* You wish!

Former French President Jacques Chirac was rushed to a hospital after being mauled by his pet dog who is being treated for depression, in a dramatic incident that rattled the ex-president’s wife

* JW: Austrian politician Susanne Winter convicted of “anti-Muslim incitement”

* *  “Joint hatred of everything Jewish is unifying neo-Nazis and Islamists”

* UK: Brown & Co soil themselves over “Disproportionate Dead Baby Jihad” 

*  The Socialist slime, the unelected Brown-Nose govt, is still groveling to Arabs in the hope of  petro-dollar millions to save their sorry asses for another day… 

A Dutch court imports Saudi blasphemy norms to Europe.

* Surprise: the all too often moonbattish Wall Street Journal comes out in support for Geert Wilders!

                                

               Defend Geert Wilders (our) Freedom of Speech!

The latest twist in the clash between Western values and the Muslim world took place yesterday in the Netherlands, where a court ordered the prosecution of lawmaker and provocateur Geert Wilders for inciting violence. The Dutch MP and leader of the Freedom Party, which opposes Muslim immigration into Holland, will stand trial soon for his harsh criticism of Islam.

Mr. Wilders made world news last year with the short film “Fitna.” In the 15-minute video, he juxtaposes Koranic verses calling for jihad with clips of Islamic hate preachers and terror attacks. He has compared the Koran to Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and urged Muslims to tear out “hate-filled” verses from their scripture. This is a frontal assault on Islam — but, as Mr. Wilders points out, he’s targeting the religion, not its followers. “Fitna,” in fact, sparked a refreshing debate between moderate Muslims and non-Muslims in the Netherlands, and beyond.

*  Wilders expects to be sent to prison

*  WORLDWIDE REACTION TO WILDERS PROSECUTION

* Support Geert Wilders: your financial support urgently needed:

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Says “Isratine” would solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (how original: the “One State Solution”- why didn’t anyone else think of that before?

*  “Isratine”- sounds like the bugs on Gaddafi’s crotch…

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Gaddafi called for the creation of one state rather than two nations to solve the Mideast issue (File)

Islamic cleric who advocated wife-beating comes up with an amazingly novel explanation of his words — one that no one has ever heard before

* Samir Abu Hamza says Australians are drunks: In another sermon broadcast over the internet, the Coburg cleric urged followers to spread the word of Islam to save Australians. “They don’t know what life is all about, that’s why they are on the booze, why they are binge drinking . . . why unfortunately suicide has skyrocketed, murder, anxiety and depression.” More

                                  

* More BS and fake denials: Malyun Ahmed frustrated by Abu Hamza views

He told Muslim men that they could beat their wives, in accord with Qur’an 4:34, but wouldn’t you know it? His remarks were taken out of context!

“Samir Abu Hamza has told a confidant his message has been taken out of context and that he was referring to hitting wives in a metaphorical sense.”

Wow! I’ve never heard that before! That makes it all make sense! Of course! He meant metaphorical wife-beating! You know, the kind of thing people mean when they say things like, “Wow, he really gave him a tongue-lashing,” or “So-and-so should be publicly flogged,” or “That’s gonna leave a mark” or “Forty lashes with a wet noodle.” Of course! How could the world have been so stupid! If only we would learn to quote these clerics, and the Qur’an, in context, everything would be all right, the global jihad and Islamic supremacism would vanish, and a new era of peace would dawn!

An update on this story.

“Wife-beating call was metaphoric: cleric,” from AAP, January 22 (thanks to DW):

* The Herald Sun doesn’t get it: Samir Abu Hamza’s “primitive interpretation” is the correct one

                  

* BS peddler Yasser Soliman’s tries damage control: making it look as if Samir Abu Hamza was a looney “individual’ who got it all wrong…

Continue reading Australia: Islamic cleric invents most original defense against accusers: "out of context…"

* The IDF should go right back and finish the job. Israeli soldier: “We Want to Finish the Job”

Jan. 22, 2009

The number of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast Lead did not exceed five or six hundred, Lorenzo Cremonesi, a correspondent for Italy’sCorriere della sera reported on Thursday.

Gazan doctor says death toll inflated

* War Is Deceit: Gaza doc says Palestinian death toll inflated

                  

Physician at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital tells Italian newspaper number of dead in Israeli offensive ‘stands at no more than 500 or 600, most of them youths recruited to Hamas’ ranks’. Senior Palestinian Health Ministry official denies claims, IDF estimate on 1,200 casualties in Strip remains unchanged

Ynet reporters

 

Continue reading 'Maximum 600 Palestinians died in Gaza'