Posted on 09/16/2007 6:43:09 AM PDT by SJackson
U.S.: Saudis Still Filling Al Qaeda's Coffers ABC News: The Blotter September 11, 2007 5:40 PM http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/09/us-saudis-still.html Brian Ross Reports:
Despite six years of promises, U.S. officials say Saudi Arabia continues to look the other way at wealthy individuals identified as sending millions of dollars to al Qaeda.
"If I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country, it would be Saudi Arabia," Stuart Levey, the under secretary of the Treasury in charge of tracking terror financing, told ABC News.
Despite some efforts as a U.S. ally in the war on terror, Levey says Saudi Arabia has dropped the ball. Not one person identified by the United States and the United Nations as a terror financier has been prosecuted by the Saudis, Levey says.
"When the evidence is clear that these individuals have funded terrorist organizations, and knowingly done so, then that should be prosecuted and treated as real terrorism because it is," Levey says.
Among those on the donor list, according to U.S. officials, is Yasin al Qadi, a wealthy businessman named on both the U.S. and U.N. lists of al Qaeda financiers one month after the 9/11 attacks.
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And to think of how many people called me a damn fool for suggesting that the U.S. was on the wrong side in the Gulf War . . .
That line has been used concerning dictator Putin too.
After Damascus & Tehran are dealt with, the Saudis bank-rollers of Wahhabist terrorism should be next.
Ah yes, along with our good buddies in Pakistan.
Do a google for "golden chain" (osama or usama) at some point. Our real enemy is the "Golden Chain", the group of wealthy Muslims who bankroll Osama. It is my opinion that Osama was primarily just the liaison between the Golden Chain and the operational people, with the job of making sure the money was spent on actual operations. The Golden Chain is the real Board of Directors of the Global Jihad.
As long as the Golden Chain can continue funding, and are themselves immune from retaliation, we will see an endless succession of new al-Queda leaders
Take away their funding, and you cripple the Global Jihad
If the price of oil goes up high enough, and we don’t put our trust in a bogus solution like ethanol, but let capital flow to practical solutions, they we will be into the next phase. That said, the Saudis continue to fund Al Qaedi in order to keep Iraq in a state of unrest in order the (1) Prevent the establishment of a stable and Shia-dominated alternative and (2) keep the price of oil high. Our biggest failure has been to prevent the return/expansion of Iraqi oil to the market.
The same argument could be made —was made— about Korea fifty years ago. This is not the first “long war.” The same result was not achieved in Vietnam because the military had a similar contempt for the South Vietnamese forces. That Abrams succeeded where Westmoreland failed is testimoney to two things: (1) Some generals are better than others and (2) some presidents are better than others. Our political problem is that Hiliary Clinton has many things in common with Richard Nixon but a decent respect for the use of military force is not one of them.
Don’t read much, do ya?
Better than you have it seems. Neighborhood work sites could be implemented very quickly and they could easily get rid of half or more of the commuting.
In too many parts of America today God could come down out of the sky and give us all the gasoline we need for the rest of our lives for free and it wouldn't fix the problem; there'd still be people spending three to five hours driving to and from work in crawling traffic every day.
Henry Ford said that the car was there to allow the city fellow to go out on picnics on Sundays and the farmer to gt into town to shop on Saturdays. We've come a long and dangerous way from that simple vision to our present misuse of technologies.
Again, we have more untouched oil than the rest of the world put together, particularly offshore of Fla. and Cal. and under the Rockies in Utah and Colorado before you even start to talk about shale, and if anything we should be exporting the stuff and not importing it.
But the world is much smarter now. /sarc
we really need the USA to get off dependency on foreign oil. Then we need the rest of the world to do the same thing.
Pea coil. Pea coil.
I read it on the internet.
Seriously, how much oil is off the coasts, and in the gulf?
Anybody know?
I’d say the correct question is; “how much energy can be supplied to the US without financing terrorist supporting countries like Saudi.”
Every damned day. ‘show I make my living.
What you are advocating sounds very Stalinist to me
Are you suggesting that hundreds of millions of people give up there homes and move in to government housing built around manufacturing centers.
You must be because I do not see any other way that your idea could work. I don’t know about you but many married couples that I know both have jobs and their home is as closely located to the equidistance point for them so that at little time is spent driving as possible or that one spouse drives the greater distance and the other works locally.
Being that most manufacturing assets are fixed and located away from housing districts I don’t see how your idea can be realized.
Even in WW II people were not forced to relocate. Even the Manhattan Project scientist and engineers were invited to New Mexico they were not forced.
Forced relocations are very un-American and un-Constitutional.
I won’t argue the point that politics is what is keeping us from exploring for oil in the US because I agree with you. But the neighborhood work sites idea smacks of Roosevelt New Deal make work socialism or worse.
Actually Bush said that there was an “Eternal Friendship between the US and Saudi Arabia.”
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=Bush+saudi+%22eternal+friendship%22&btnG=Search
Saudis giving money to Al Quadea is not always voluntary. I knew several who had children being educated in England. They were blackmailed. Al Quadea is a criminal gang.
They were aware that a few others had children murdered or disappear. With Al Quadea having cells world wide, it can present a difficult choice for wealthy Saudis.
Are you suggesting that hundreds of millions of people give up there homes and move in to government housing built around manufacturing centers?
By no means. Here's what I AM advocating: It is not likely that more than about 20% of the work force in any of our metro areas really need to be at one physical site more than one day a week. Most of the rest of us are not organized enough to be working from home the other four days but we could damned well be working from neighborhood work sites three or four days a week and simply let electrons and electronics replace all the oil and rubber. There's enough surplus commercial real estate in most places you wouldn't even have to build anything new. THAT would take 70% of the traffic straight off our roads and basically empty them and we could tell OPEC and AlQuaeda to screw off.
Oil Shale.
Off-shore California.
Tar sands.
Nuclear plants.
Correction.
Our willingness to search for it and to exploit it peaked decades ago.
But oh wait, there's the caribou....
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