Saudi Justice and the Bush Mind

CBS's 60 Minutes had a segment on the Saudis framing 7 westerners for a terrorist attack. Saudi Justice?.

(CBS) Why did the Government of Saudi Arabia frame seven westerners for a series of car bombings they didn't commit?

Those car bombings, which began in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, in November 2000, killed three members of the expatriate community and severely injured several others. To western observers, they were clearly the work of Islamic fundamentalists.

But the Saudis were not about to admit that. So five Britons, a Canadian and a Belgian found themselves arrested, systematically tortured into false confessions and eventually convicted of those bombings.

Since the release of the men from a Saudi Arabian jail last summer, it's emerged that the Saudis were secretly using them as pawns in a bigger game - a game that for two of the men almost ended in a terrible death.

Much has been made of the long time connection of the Bush family and the House of Saud. How dose the Bush family ties to this horrible regime explain this administration disregard for our own Democratic institutions.