You got to believe that this is on everybody's minds in the East when BuchCon Condi blunders her way around spreading the Goober's stupidity.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=49966
Saudi minister tells Rice to mind her own business
Published: 6/29/2005
RIYADH - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has no right to speak about the case of three jailed activists whose cause she took up during a recent visit here, Saudi Interior Minister Nayef ben Abdel Aziz said Wednesday.
"It's an internal matter, nobody has the right to speak about it," the minister was quoted as saying, by the official SPA news agency, in response to questions on Rice's comments on the three reformers.
Rice flew into Riyadh last week during a regional swing after delivering a major speech in Cairo calling for sweeping democratic change and naming Saudi Arabia as one of the states still lagging.
"Three individuals in particular are currently imprisoned for peacefully petitioning their government -- and this should not be a crime in any country." she told 600 Egyptian officials, scholars and students at Cairo's American University,
She was referring to three activists sentenced to between six and nine years in prison in May on charges of demanding a constitutional monarch in the ultra-conservative Gulf sheikhdom.
Ali al-Demaini, Abdullah al-Hamed and Matruk al-Faleh were found guilty of "using Western terminology" in formulating their demands. They also allegedly questioned the king's role as head of the judiciary.
The trio were the last activists held out of a dozen people arrested in March 2004.
The State Department had already registered concern over the fate of the activists and Rice raised the matter in her talks here with the Saudi leadership.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said after his talks with Rice that he had told her that the prisoners had broken the law. "They are in the hands of the court. The government cannot interfere until the court action is taken in this regard."
"The row is really meaningless," he said then. "The assessment that is important for any country in the development of its political reform is the judgment of its own people."
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I really don't have a problem with Condi stating her views on this issue, just as long as Bush doesn't invade Saudi Arabia to try and "correct" the problem.
QUOTE(ghostgovt @ Jul 1 2005, 06:49 AM)
You got to believe that this is on everybody's minds in the East when BuchCon Condi blunders her way around spreading the Goober's stupidity.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=49966
Saudi minister tells Rice to mind her own business
Published: 6/29/2005
RIYADH - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has no right to speak about the case of three jailed activists whose cause she took up during a recent visit here, Saudi Interior Minister Nayef ben Abdel Aziz said Wednesday.
"It's an internal matter, nobody has the right to speak about it," the minister was quoted as saying, by the official SPA news agency, in response to questions on Rice's comments on the three reformers.
Rice flew into Riyadh last week during a regional swing after delivering a major speech in Cairo calling for sweeping democratic change and naming Saudi Arabia as one of the states still lagging.
"Three individuals in particular are currently imprisoned for peacefully petitioning their government -- and this should not be a crime in any country." she told 600 Egyptian officials, scholars and students at Cairo's American University,
She was referring to three activists sentenced to between six and nine years in prison in May on charges of demanding a constitutional monarch in the ultra-conservative Gulf sheikhdom.
Ali al-Demaini, Abdullah al-Hamed and Matruk al-Faleh were found guilty of "using Western terminology" in formulating their demands. They also allegedly questioned the king's role as head of the judiciary.
The trio were the last activists held out of a dozen people arrested in March 2004.
The State Department had already registered concern over the fate of the activists and Rice raised the matter in her talks here with the Saudi leadership.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said after his talks with Rice that he had told her that the prisoners had broken the law. "They are in the hands of the court. The government cannot interfere until the court action is taken in this regard."
"The row is really meaningless," he said then. "The assessment that is important for any country in the development of its political reform is the judgment of its own people."
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=49966
Saudi minister tells Rice to mind her own business
Published: 6/29/2005
RIYADH - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has no right to speak about the case of three jailed activists whose cause she took up during a recent visit here, Saudi Interior Minister Nayef ben Abdel Aziz said Wednesday.
"It's an internal matter, nobody has the right to speak about it," the minister was quoted as saying, by the official SPA news agency, in response to questions on Rice's comments on the three reformers.
Rice flew into Riyadh last week during a regional swing after delivering a major speech in Cairo calling for sweeping democratic change and naming Saudi Arabia as one of the states still lagging.
"Three individuals in particular are currently imprisoned for peacefully petitioning their government -- and this should not be a crime in any country." she told 600 Egyptian officials, scholars and students at Cairo's American University,
She was referring to three activists sentenced to between six and nine years in prison in May on charges of demanding a constitutional monarch in the ultra-conservative Gulf sheikhdom.
Ali al-Demaini, Abdullah al-Hamed and Matruk al-Faleh were found guilty of "using Western terminology" in formulating their demands. They also allegedly questioned the king's role as head of the judiciary.
The trio were the last activists held out of a dozen people arrested in March 2004.
The State Department had already registered concern over the fate of the activists and Rice raised the matter in her talks here with the Saudi leadership.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said after his talks with Rice that he had told her that the prisoners had broken the law. "They are in the hands of the court. The government cannot interfere until the court action is taken in this regard."
"The row is really meaningless," he said then. "The assessment that is important for any country in the development of its political reform is the judgment of its own people."
I bet it really galled him to have to deal with a woman.
QUOTE(Marine @ Jul 6 2005, 08:35 PM)
I bet it really galled him to have to deal with a woman.
It appears that the chumminess that abounds between the Bushs and the Saudi royal family doesn't automatically extend to others. Rice should wait until she leaves a country to criticize it, or not at all. She criticized them BEFORE she got there......what did she think they were going to say? She's passing judgement on their form of government and laws in her capacity of a representative of all of us.
Which she's not of ME, any more than I recognize Bush is MY president.
QUOTE(grammydidi @ Jul 7 2005, 11:17 AM)
It appears that the chumminess that abounds between the Bushs and the Saudi royal family doesn't automatically extend to others. Rice should wait until she leaves a country to criticize it, or not at all. She criticized them BEFORE she got there......what did she think they were going to say? She's passing judgement on their form of government and laws in her capacity of a representative of all of us.
Which she's not of ME, any more than I recognize Bush is MY president.
Which she's not of ME, any more than I recognize Bush is MY president.
Excellent point grammydidi ..... not only is the mouthpiece a super hand puppet of GW's but like you said, they go around slamming other nations, and then appear on their doorstep wanting hugs and gifts. Same same Venzuela.... look how the Bush / Condi mouthbite has upset those folks .... then look at their recent actions in response to the 'bully' USA in the past 6 mths. Also, like most of us here, these other nations knows of how much these BushCons lie through their crooked teeth. How can anyone feel 'diplomatic' around this bunch of morons?
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