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HASAN SUROOR / The hindu.
HASAN SUROOR / The hindu.
Saudi Arabian King's sudden thought while meeting White House official
If the movement of horses and falcons could be tracked by tagging them with an electronic chip ‘to be tracked with Bluetooth,' why couldn't the same method be used to track Guantanamo Bay detainees, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah reportedly asked a senior American counter-terror official. To which the official wisecracked: “horses don't have good lawyers,” and then pointed out that such a move could face legal hurdles in America.
The exchange, reported in a cable dated March 22, 2009 from the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh (198178: secret), accessed by The Hindu through WikiLeaks, took place during a meeting the King had with the visiting White House counter-terror adviser, John Brennan, in Riyadh on March 15, 2009. The cable was classified by Political Counselor Lisa Carle and copied, among other places, to the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
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