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Saudi King Invites Ahmadinejad For Haj - Media
By: Reuters on: 13.12.2007 [07:48 ] (634 reads)
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Saudi King Invites Ahmadinejad For Haj - Media
By REUTERS
Published: December 12, 2007
Skip to next paragraph TEHRAN (Reuters) - The king of U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia has invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend this year's haj in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.
It would be the first time an Iranian president was officially invited to take part in the annual pilgrimage, starting later this month, the official IRNA news agency said.
Like other Gulf Arab states, Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia has long been wary of its large Shi'ite Muslim neighbor and shares Western concerns about Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
"Saudi King Abdullah has formally invited President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to take part in this year's haj ceremony," Iran's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Hosseini, was quoted as saying by state television.
The five-day rites are expected to begin on December 18.
On Tuesday Ahmadinejad said he would take part in the haj if formally invited. Last week he became the first Iranian president to attend a summit of Saudi Arabia and five other Gulf Arab states.
It was not clear whether the 51-year-old had attended the haj before. A duty for every Muslim at least once in a lifetime, the grueling ritual is one of the world's biggest displays of mass religious devotion and is held under tight security.
At least 1.5 million people are expected to arrive from abroad in Mecca where pilgrims follow a route around the mountains in line with a tradition established by the Prophet Muhammad.
In 1987, more than 400 people, mostly Iranians, died in clashes with Saudi security forces at an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Mecca.
(Reporting by Reza Derakhshi; Writing by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Robert Woodward)
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-iran-ahmadinejad-haj.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
by paul pawlowski on 13.12.2007 [09:40 ]
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Saudi was floating on Sea of Oil once
Then Saudi was selling Oil to get petrodollars — selling Oil cheaper than water — Saudi was
selling Oil at $0.12 cents per barrel
Buying Coca cola at $400 dollars per barrel - Oil cost less than water
Now Saudi Sea of Oil is pumped out of Saudiland
-- Sea water pumped in to Saudiland.
Where is the wisdom?
Actually there is Wisdom in it — Special Saudi wisdom that you must be a special person to understand it
When USA started bombing Iraq I went to Hove Mosque to offer support. Hove Mosque Newsletter said
Iraq has done wrong - Iraq must be punished.
I went to Hyde Park Speakers Corner hoping to find Sane person to talk to.
Man with placard was mingling with the crowd - Placard in Arabic.
I went to him and with Clenched Fist I cried out
Victory to Iraq!
No! cried out he.
No? - he must be mad like the others - I walked away from him.
He shouted after me
Its hard to understand isn't it!
Now I understand
Hove Mosque - all the other mosques were financed by Saudi with petrodollars -
Saudi
Did Not want Victory of Iraq!
Saudi wanted
Victory of Islam!
The more USA bomb Iraq - kill Iraq - destroy Iraq - the Closer
Victory of Islam.
That was Saudi then.
Is that Saudi still?
Now Saudi floating on Sea water
Is this Victory of Islam?
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by Iranian-Shi'ite on 13.12.2007 [10:48 ]
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So much for US attempts to isolate Iran.
The USA also tried to prevent Turkey and Japan from closer ties with Iran, and they snubbed the USA too.
It looks like the USA is losing more power, like when Iran got invited to the GCC summit in Doha, or when C. Rice tried to convince the GCC states to condemn Iran's nuclear program only to be politely rebuffed.
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by BravoTango on 13.12.2007 [11:43 ]
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Damn it, Paul! You've now spoiled all my impressions of you. Now you are making sense, at least about the funding part.
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by hiles69@msn.com on 13.12.2007 [12:05 ]
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... countries of the ME are forming alliancies against US hegemony and I fancy that can only be a good thng, especially if you add in Russia, China and nerly all the rest of the non-aligned world.
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by torcyan on 13.12.2007 [18:11 ]
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It would be a good chance to blow him away as he would be in an arab country, not in Europe or USA and blame it on anyone who is pissing off the states at the time.
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