1. Both make their money from selling black, sticky stuff to the West BUT for the Taliban it's Opium and Hashish; for Suadis, it's oil
2. Both favour public floggings, amputations and executions BUT the Saudi like decapitating with swords; while the Taliban like to hang people from cranes
3. The Taliban face Mecca to pray, BUT the Saudis pray in Mecca, since they own it.
4. Both like their women to wrap up warmly BUT the Taliban do it against -21C winters & the winter minima are 8C in Saudi
5. All the attackers, bar one, on the World Trade Centre in New York were Saudis BUT none were Taliban
6. The Saudis had a 75 year old widow flogged in public this year BUT the Taliban had a 17 year old girl flogged in public this year.
7. The Taliban drink lots of Tea BUT The Saudis prefer to drink Coffee
8. The Saudis are anti-democratic, so are the Taliban BUT the Saudis like Monarchy, the Taliban Theocracy
9. The Taliban speak Pashto BUT the Saudis speak Arabic
10. NATO has been killing somewhere between 6 and 10 Taliban a day for the past 8 years BUT NATO is killing nobody in Saudi Arabia
The Taliban harbor a few dozen international terrorists while the Saudis produce them by thousands.
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