By Ahmed Tharwat
From Newspeaks to Wikileaks
WikiLeaks’ unprecedented release of classified material “is embarrassing U.S. leaders and their foreign counterparts alike,” according to the Huffington Post.
Explained the New York Times: “The documents seemed to show several Arab nations, notably Saudi Arabia, Iran’s rival for influence in the Persian Gulf, displaying such hostility that King Abdullah repeatedly implored Washington to ‘cut off the head of the snake’ while there was still time.”
The leaked documents themselves reveal that the Saudi king shared his wisdom with an American official about how to track detainees once the Guantanamo Bay detention facility is closed: “‘I’ve just thought of something,’ the King added, and proposed implanting detainees with an electronic chip containing information about them and allowing their movements to be tracked with Bluetooth. This was done with horses and falcons, the King said.”
What is revealing about this is not so much that the king elevated the Gitmo detainees’ status to that of horses, but the fact that the Saudi king knows about Bluetooth!
I thought horses had very high social status in the kingdom, until a Saudi friend commented on my Facebook posting about the king’s high-tech advice to America: “Did he mention how the old horses are being shot to death when they become useless?”
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