Wikileaks Casualty: Saudi-Pakistani Relations Strained After Documents Released
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, November 29, 2010, 11:50 AM
Forget the bow, Obama may want to kiss King Abdullah’s shoes next time he sees him.
Thanks to the Wikileaks’ document dump, Pakistan’s ties with Saudi Arabia appeared to be under fresh strain.
CBS reported:
Pakistan’s ties with Saudi Arabia appeared to be under fresh strain on Monday in the wake of revelations from classified documents released by WikiLeaks, which quoted Saudi Arabian King Abdullah calling Pakistan’s president Asif Ali Zardari “the greatest obstacle” to the country’s progress.
“When the head is rotten, it affects the whole body,” Abdullah said of Zardari in one of the documents.
While Pakistani officials publicly condemned the claim as an attempt to undermine the traditionally close ties between the two countries, western and Arab diplomats warned that the revelations may have finally exposed genuine underlying tensions.
Both are prominent Islamic states: Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil producer and the birthplace of Islam while Pakistan has the distinction of being the world’s only Muslim country armed with nuclear weapons.
Pakistan’s relations with Saudi Arabia predate its birth in 1947, when the country was carved out as an independent state from British colonial India. And many Pakistanis – like Muslims in all countries – feel tied to Saudi Arabia because of the traditional Islamic pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca.
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tarpon commented:
Sticking it to Hillary has unintended consequences. Something the one doesn’t care about.
fgegrhyakrwhg commented:
I think its great that these cables show what jerks foreign governments are. Those wikileakers ought to get a medal before they are shot.
fgegrhyakrwhg commented:
If this wikileaks stuff isn’t a CIA plot to discredit our fake allies, it shold be.
Fionnagh commented:
Perhaps he should have bowed lower….
Missy8s commented:
Emailed him and called both offices already this morning…
This is too big to let slide by and allow it to be discredited or swept under the rug by the “official media” or the WH, this begs a lot of questions to be answered…
Who is funding his activities?
What level of support is he receiving?
Where is the money being transferred to?
When did these transactions of data and or cash occur?
Why has nobody asked these questions publicly?
The most glaring question is who used their security clearance to enable these leaks.??
It sure as hell had to be much higher up than just a whacked out private with an agenda or Euro-peon socialist looking to destroy our diplomatic relations around the world.
This whole thing has George Soros’ grimy fingerprints all over it and if he’s involved so is Chairman O and his Crime Inc. cadre.
This has all of the earmarks of a political double-cross engineered by spooky dude, Chairman O thought he was getting Bush and all he got was trouble for himself!
HEARINGS NOW!!!
Missy8s commented:
Call Darryl Issa’s Office and DEMAND hearings and subpoenas for Julian Asange and Pvt. Manning!
Washington DC Office: 202-225-3906
California District Office: 760-599-5000
This is a criminal conspiracy that likely goes all the way up the government food chain and very likely links directly to funding from George Soros!
Julian Asange MUST NOT BE KILLED!
He MUST testify!
Dave-O commented:
We simply can’t afford any more of this “smart” diplomacy.
walt commented:
I’m 61 never had any relations with any mid.east people maybe Mr. Businessman has and that is were the Problems start.Read last 60 years history and greed takes over
burt commented:
If Obama didn’t want these leaks, they wouldn’t have happened. Obama is the puppet and
Soros is the puppet master.
Charlie commented:
I’ve been reading all this stuff about how these leaks are good because they will reveal the truth about the Iraq war. But I haven’t seen anything about the Iraq war yet. Anyone come across an item that specifically mentions “Iraq” yet? Just wonder’n.