Let Us Rob You Or We'll Suicide Bomb The Place

It's really stunning that we still have this symbiotic relationship with Saudi Arabia, home of 15 of the 19 hijackers on September 11, and they still harbor all kinds of terrorists and actually use them as a bargaining chip in negotiations.

Saudi Arabia's rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.

Previously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced "another 7/7" and the loss of "British lives on British streets" if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.

Prince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than £1bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE*.

He was accused in yesterday's high court hearings of flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family.

Prince Bandar, incidentally, is known familiarly as "Bandar Bush" and is an unofficial member of that family, so maybe it's not so stunning.

So the President can claim to be acting on behalf of the families of the victims of the London train bombing, yet his good friend and pseudo-relative Bandar Bush is actually terrorizing Britain by threatening more attacks.

I knew that Saudi Arabia had us over a barrel, literally, when it came to oil, but apparently that's also true with regard to terrorism. Makes you wonder that if we actually try to get off the carbon-based economy, what they would do to ensure that doesn't happen.

* I've written about this Bandar/BAE thing previously, it's really one of the more devious "Syriana" type things that's been going on the past several years.