IRS in Riyadh for Terrorist Audits

Its a tough time to be a Saudi. Under increasing pressure
to deal with the popular, virulent anti-Americanism which is proving
to be such a fecund petri dish of terrorism for Saudi youth with too
much time on their hands, the government is spending millions on a sophisticated
US public relation campaign and looking for more ways to cooperate with
the US government.

The Saudi royal family, which owes its position atop the world’s
biggest proven pot of petroleum to a post-WWI land-grant from the victorios
European powers, has maintained that positon through a Faustian pact
with

radical fundamentalists who channel popular
anger at being kept in ignorance and underdevelopment away from the government
and directly at Jews and Americans.

Now Adam Zagorin, Time magazine’s national
economics correspondent, reports that while their governments are publicly
feuding,
FBI and IRS agents are in Riyadh working with their Saudi counterparts
to form a joint task force to trace terrorist financing.

Of course, Adam Zagorin
also reported, in sixth grade, that putting 12 Bufferin tablets in a
can of Coke, shaking
it up, and shooting it down your throat would get you high. It doesn’t,
Adam. It just makes you very, very sick. Don’t ask how I got
this information.

from
Time