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Aaron Brachowitz
10-18-2001, 10:06 AM
"Federal officials said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia and Egypt have refused to cooperate with American efforts to identify terrorists and other criminals on aircraft flying to the United States."

Particularly galling given that many of the hijackers were Egyptian or Saudi. A side issue would be the question of why we're letting any young men from these countries travel here right now. Not vindictive, just prudent.

Full article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0110180271oct18.story?coll=chi%2Dnewsnationworld%2 Dhed

anon789
10-18-2001, 10:26 AM
Cutting back on letting all the rich oil barons have their kids educated in the best US schools might have some effect.

Rockhound
10-18-2001, 05:39 PM
And now we also learn that the Saudi's won't freeze the terrorists assets.

Let's get it out in the open: the Arab/Moslim countries, pay some lip service to the anti-terrorism campaign, but in reality they crave a Moslem controlled world. They would like nothing better to go back to the days when they were the world's only super-power.