Osama's Best Friend: The further connections between al Qaeda and Saddam

The Weekly Standard ^ | 11/03/03 | Stephen F. Hayes

[Tacis]

Your representation of wishful thinking as fact suggests to me that you are paid by the Saudis to claim that the Saudis do not do something that they clearly do. Now, your representation that it is not "Saudi government" money is interesting. Of course, I do not know whether the Saudi money comes directly from the Saudi government (whatever that might be) or from a member of the Saudi royal family, Prince What's-His-Face.

True, the money comes from anti-Americans and some of the wealthiest are Suadis. And you have NO proof to the contrary!

[justshutupandtakeit]

If you believe I am Saudi paid you are indeed delusional. That was fairly obvious from the baloney peddling you attempt wrt Saudi funding of the whackos. It is not my job to prove anything since it is YOU who pulled the "Saudi funding anti-War" crap outta your ass.

The SA government has been rolling up private financing of the terror movement (of which the anti-War movement is an arm) big time so even that is ending. There is no doubt that SOME Saudi citizens were funding terror as have been citizen funding from other countries.

What I said was the vast majority of any funds for the aWm comes from anti-America Americans not foreign sources. That is without doubt. Since the first victims of the Islamic terrorists now operating in Iraq will be the Royal family of SA they do NOT want us to leave and give them a free hand. There are frequent shootouts and attacks inside SA from the terror movement as it is.

[Lancey Howard]

Back-from-vacation BUMP!

[piasa]

bump

[piasa]

In light of Zawahiti's apparent well timed demise on his balcony in Afghanistan :

Detailing his activities with the alleged terrorist organizations in the Middle East and Africa, (Ali) Mohamed said that during those activities he "understood that I was working with al Qaeda, [Usama] bin Laden, Abu Hafs [and] Abu Ubaidah, and that al Qaeda had a shura council which included Abu Hajer al Iraqui." Mohamed told the judge that in the early 1980s he became involved with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization and in the 1990s was introduced to al Qaeda through the Egyptian organization. In the early 1990s Ayman Al Zawihiri made two visits to the United States to raise funds for Islamic Jihad, Mohamed said, and he helped Zawihiri do that. Zawihiri was also indicted in the bombing but remains at large, as does bin Laden.