i seriously think we should start a "Crusade of the Sigs" campaign. it'd be like reliving the motW/Anathema War, only taking on something we don't necessarily know we'd overcome.
Or perhaps he's counting on his slip to be "covered" by one of the Arabs world's open secrets: "That Yasser Arafat is completely untrustworthy" (--Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud)