Tag: Saudi Arabia

  • That hero, McCain

    The New York Times published a story on Sunday that had me scratching my head. Timesman David D. Kirkpatrick’s piece, Response to 9/11 Offers Outline of McCain Doctrine, is not quite like the usual admiring pieces that we’ve come to expect from the mainstream media about McCain, explaining away obvious and prodigious faults while pumping…

  • Data point . . .

    Sen. Jim Webb brought up another subject on that video: Speaking of oil going to $130, we should all remember that the month that Congress approved this war in Iraq, oil was $24 (a barrel). Asked about the spectacle of Pres. George W. Bush panhandling around Saudi Arabia, offering the royal family there inducements to…

  • SHOPPERS SIGN UP TO SUPPORT TROOPS

    A constant question in letters written home by American servicemen and women in the Middle East is how the public is reacting to their being over there. If the more than 3,000 signatures collected on banners at two Paramus shopping malls Saturday are any measure, then support for the men and women if not for…

  • DRUG CACHE USED TO LURE TRAFFICKING SUSPECTS

    Federal agents in Newark used a cache of 11 pounds of pure heroin seized recently from a Saudi courier at Newark International Airport the largest haul of heroin imported through the airport to track down and arrest five persons believed to be major drug traffickers.