Posted on 01/21/2006 3:47:02 PM PST by SmithL
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The Lebanese-based terror organization Hizbullah is supported by Iran to the tune of US$100 million per year. $10 million also made its way last year from Iran to the Islamic Jihad. |
| The data on Iranian support for Lebanese and Palestinian Authority-based terrorist organizations was revealed by Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz Saturday night, in a lecture he delivered at the annual Herzliya Conference. Mofaz noted that on Friday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held talks in Damascus with representatives of Hizbullah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine during a visit he paid to Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad. Mofaz called Assad and Ahmadinejad "representatives of the Axis of Evil," saying that their meeting was "a summit for terror." Ahmadinejad made the trip to Syria, according to the defense minister, "to be sure that the terrorism against Israel would not slow down for a moment, and would even increase." In this regard, Mofaz said that Iran supports public relations efforts for the Hizbullah, supplies the organization with weapons and funds its activities with about US$100 million per year. Part of that sum also makes its way to terrorists in the Palestinian Authority, Mofaz said. In addition, Iran separately funded the PA-based Islamic Jihad with $10 million in 2005. This figure, the defense minister noted, is twice the Iranian budget allocation for in 2004. Most recently, Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing on Thursday in south Tel Aviv, in which 30 people were injured, and for a rocket it claimed was fired at Ashkelon on Saturday. "The regime of the president of Iran Ahmadinejad supports terrorism in the Middle East through the supply of rockets that threaten population centers in this country, sends money for terrorism, and supplies training and know-how to the Middle Eastern [terror] organizations," Defense Minister Mofaz said. Addressing comments to the Iranian leader, Mofaz, who was himself born in Iran, warned, "It would be to your benefit to take a look at history and see what became of those who tried to exterminate the Jewish people. I know the Iranian people - and more than a little - and a large part of it does not recognize its leader's opinions."
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My, my, my........
Doesn't Iran NOW represent the OFFICIAL NATION face, hand and purse of Islamanazi Terrorism?
To top it off -- they've obviously declared war on America...
They've already violated our Embassy and continue to fund, and support Terrorism -- and are openly threatening America and our interests...
Hitler and the Japanese Empire killed far fewer Americans and had far less impact on our society or economy before we declared war and started delivering death and destruction to their HOME LANDS....
Why should Iran be any different?
Or Saudia Arabia and Syria for that matter?
How long do we wait? Until it's too late?
Semper Fi
Well at there is no mystery about what these Islamic maniacs are all about. None.
Iran was targeted as a main player in the Axix of Evil and President Bush stated unequivocally that they will NOT be allowed to have nukes.
Iran as we know it is whistling past the graveyard.
And apparently, martyrdom is their mission. I guess their wish shall be granted.
27 years we've been putting up with an increasingly dangerous regime. I shudder to think what will happen if we go in to take them out...but even more if we don't.
Wonder if Liberal "brain dead" politicians (Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, Kennedy, Reid, Hillary et al.) can smell the nukes coming? Their beloved policy of negotiation and appeasement will go on while Iran shares their nukes with Islamic maniacs worldover.
The source of Iran's funding of the worst terrorist groups in the world is derived from exported oil & natural gas. If Iranian energy products are stopped from exiting the Persian Gulf the Iranian jihadist promoting dictatorship will no longer be capable of funding global jihad and will collapse from within (with a little outside help)
Have we remembered to thank Carter for embracing these terror-mongers?
"We do not support governments who support terrorists organizations"
Show us your cahonas Bush. Of course the only governments we don't support are ones who we don't buy oil from.
>>>Imagine a West friendly government in place in Iran.
It WAS there. Until a Nobel Peace Prize winner named Jimmy Carter was elected president.
Their beloved policy of negotiation and appeasement will go on while Iran shares their nukes with Islamic maniacs worldover.
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They are such idiots -- the bane of our nation.
ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/hizballah.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/pij.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/pflp.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/hamas.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
http://www.memri.org/syria.html
http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.memrtv.org
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s06010073.htm
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Friday, January 20, 2006
BIN LADEN-IRAN COLLABORATION A POSSIBILITY, TERROR EXPERT WARNS
Release of new audiotape says al-Qaida preparing attacks on U.S.
By Mark Ellis
Senior Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
NEW YORK (ANS) -- She’s a one-woman tour de force in a personal crusade to expose the dark nether world of terror financing. Growing up in Israel, she personally experienced a hatred fueled by radical propagandists that has only increased today, leaving her very concerned about the future of the U.S. and the Middle East.
Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld
“There is a long term strategy started by the Muslim Brotherhood and their affiliates that puts us in great danger,” says Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the American Center for Democracy. “We’ve been infiltrated heavily in the United States,” she maintains. Dr. Ehrenfeld, author of “Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed – and How to Stop it” is a widely sought commentator and consultant on the problem of international terrorism. She’s currently working on a new book exposing radical Islam’s penetration of the U.S. and other Western economies.
Dr. Ehrenfeld believes the release of a new audiotape from Osama bin Laden raises the possibility that bin Laden is collaborating with Iran. “If a dirty bomb or a nuclear device is used in the near future to attack America or its interests, the blame would go to bin Laden, thus, providing Iran with deniability,” she says. “The Islamist enemies of the U.S. have the same agenda—to destroy the biggest democracy, freedom and the Judeo-Christian way of life. It is time to acknowledge that they work together and do all it takes to preempt their attacks.”
Saudi Arabia is often the object of her special interest and attention. “When I read that as a sign of friendship, thousands of more Saudi students are coming here I get really worried,” Dr. Ehrenfeld notes. “They have been indoctrinated in Saudi Arabia with the same ideology that the attackers of 911 also practiced,” she says. While there are a few in Saudi Arabia who emulate and admire the culture of the West, the vast majority are Wahabi Sunnis holding a much different mindset.
Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s worst records on religious freedom and human rights. It is one of the least evangelized nations in the world, with Christian workers and Bibles banned. Christians are not even permitted to set foot in Islam’s holiest city, Mecca.
“Last year in Saudi Arabia they were holding fundraisers for the martyrs of Hamas,” Dr. Ehrenfeld observes. While lacking hard numbers, Dr. Ehrenfeld estimates billions of dollars are flowing out of Saudi Arabia to fund terrorism. “It amounts to billions of dollars, but there are many more hundreds of billions they are spending expanding the base of radical Islam around the world—including the U.S.”
The Muslim World League coordinates a colossal Islamic missionary effort, with some of the largest printing presses in the world located in Mecca printing tens of millions of Qur’ans for worldwide distribution.
Part of the Saudi strategy is to seek weak governments in Third World countries, where they invest heavily building hospitals, schools, and mosques. “They provide services to the population to buy their loyalty--and it’s working,” Dr. Ehrenfeld notes.
The result of their spending campaign also buys antagonism toward the U.S. and Israel. “Look at how much the U.S. is hated in these countries,” she says. “All their propaganda efforts are bearing fruit now.” Children hear a message of hate in school, they hear it from the imam in the mosque, on the radio, watch it on TV, read it on the internet, and in the books they’re reading.
In Dr. Ehrenfeld’s book, she provides substantial evidence drug money also funds terrorism. “The Saudi and Iranian imams have given fatwahs to allow their believers to use drug trafficking to support their activities,” Dr. Ehrenfeld says. Drugs can generate income and clients anywhere in the world. “It’s better than cash,” she notes.
“It corrupts the society you want to attack,” Dr. Ehrenfeld says. “So it’s a weapon similar to what the communists used.” Part of the propaganda message is: ‘Look at the enemy; see how drug use caused a degenerate society-- these are the corrupt people we need to eliminate.’
Because of the dependency of the U.S. on oil from the Middle East, as well as the disinformation campaign directed against the U.S. and the West, Dr. Ehrenfeld sees a future erosion of U.S. loyalty and support for Israel. “When Blair appointed a task force to examine the Muslim population in the U.K. following the subway bombings in London, it concluded that nothing is wrong with Muslims in Britain. They said what is wrong is Britain’s foreign policy toward Israel.”
With Iran developing nuclear capabilities and displaying a belligerent attitude, and the attitudes of many around the world being shaped by Saudi propaganda, Dr. Ehrenfeld is hardly sanguine about the future. “I want to have hope but I’m very concerned,” she says. “It doesn’t look very good.”
More information about the American Center for Democracy may be found at www.public-integrity.org.
Mark Ellis is a Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service. He is also an assistant pastor in Laguna Beach, CA. Contact Ellis at marsalis@fea.net
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“When Blair appointed a task force to examine the Muslim population in the U.K. following the subway bombings in London, it concluded that nothing is wrong with Muslims in Britain. They said what is wrong is Britain’s foreign policy toward Israel.”
This is the first time I heard this statement. Can anyone else confirm? I'd be very surprised if this was the case. Thx.
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