October 31, 2007 (LPAC)--The BBC conducted an interview with Saudi King Abdullah on Oct. 27, where the only relevant aspects concerned those questions the interviewer was prohibited to ask. The Saudis refused to allow the journalist to ask questions on Iraq, on U.S. plans to attack Iran, and on the BAE "Al Yamama" arms sales scandal.

The journalist made it clear that the King did not want to answer questions on Iraq or Iran because he did not what to go on record attacking the Bush Administration, which is what he would have to do if he answered the questions honestly. He of course did not want any questions on the BAE case for obvious reasons; his royal family is in the middle of it, specifically Prince Bandar.

In an obvious reference to why Abdullah did not want to answer the three questions, the BBC journalist said at the end of the interview, King Abdullah said, "I have not spoken about some subjects because I did not want either to be dishonest or evasive with you."

While the King would not be asked these questions, the BBC journalist was given the opportunity to ask them of Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, who was critical of the U.S policy in Iraq. On Iran, he said Saudi Arabia opposed any military attack on Iran, comparing the Bush Administration policy to a bull in a China closet, and warned that bombing Iran would create far more problems then it would resolve.

On the BAE scandal, al-Faisal answered with the question: Is this a crime of Saudi's taking bribes, or of BAE giving bribes? He said that he thought it was the latter. To this, we at LPAC put ourselves on the record, that the crime committed is a widespread ignorance of the legislation, remarkably, that man is made in the image of his creator, who, as it were, is not a wild dog.