Terrorism Financing: Roots and Trends of Saudi Terrorism Financing - United Nations (pdf)

National Review ^ | December 19, 2002 | Jean-Charles Brisard

[Mel Gibson]

A secret report to the United Nations by French investigator Jean-Charles Brisard names seven prominent Saudi financiers of terror; the number matches the seven Saudis mentioned in a 11/26/02 Washington Post article, though it's not known if all the names are the same. The Saudis mentioned by Brisard are: Khalid bin Mahfouz; Yassin al-Qadi; Saleh Abdullah Kamel; Abdullah Suleiman al-Rajhi; Adel Abdul Jalil Batterjee; Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi; and Wa'el Hamza Julaidan (who has had his assets frozen by the US [State Department, 9/6/02]).

Brisard says al-Qaeda has received between $300 million and $500 million over the last 10 years from wealthy businessmen and bankers. He claims that the combined fortunes of these men equal about 20% of Saudi Arabia's GDP (gross domestic product). [Los Angeles Times, 12/24/02, UN report, 12/19/02 or here] It is also reported that a National Security Council task force recommends the US demand that Saudi Arabia crack down on terrorist financiers within 90 days of receiving evidence of misdeeds and if they don't, the US should take unilateral action (FAT CHANCE) to bring the suspects to justice. [Washington Post, 11/26/02] However, the US denies this, calling Saudi Arabia a "good partner in the war on terrorism." [Washington Post, 11/25/02] Press Secretary Ari Fleischer says: "I think the fact that many of the hijackers came from that nation [Saudi Arabia] cannot and should not be read as an indictment of the country." [Radio Free Europe, 11/27/02].

For more information, please left click the National Review Source URL, open up the PDF file and read the 34 page report.

[Mel Gibson]

What exactly has the US government done to the 7 Saudi financiers of terror in the War on Terror other than practising damage control? Unfortunately, very little because the rules don't apply in the incubator of terror called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

[DTA]

>>>>the incubator of terror called the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia<<<<<

NEVER FORGET

15 out of 19 hijackers were Saudis.

[DTA]

7 financiers probably know this:

By 1984 Bin Laden was running a front organization called Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), which funneled money, arms and fighters into the Afghan war. MAK was nurtured by Pakistan's state security services and the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), the United States Central Intelligence Agency's primary mechanism for the covert conduct of war against the Soviet occupation. By 1988, Bin Laden had split from the MAK and established a new guerilla group, dubbed al-Qaida, which included many of the more militant MAK members he had met in Afghanistan.

Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK),is an interesting story. For further reading, search under "Senator Orrin Hatch".

[Mel Gibson]

Thanks for the info.