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Saudi Arabia has the most wealthy donators to al Qaeda, but at least the Saudi Royal family is jailing al Qaeda and killing them.

Such naivete is just jaw-dropping.

One of the biggest funders of al-Qaeda, identified as such by the U.S. and even the United Nations, remains free in Saudi Arabia.

OUR FRIENDS THE SAUDIS

By Charles Johnson
Imagine my surprise to discover that our allies in the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia are still playing a double game, smiling in our faces and taking our money, then turning around and giving that money to our enemies to wage jihad: Saudis Still Filling Al Qaeda’s Coffers.

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. Al Qadi, who has repeatedly denied the allegations, remains free, still a prominent figure in Saudi Arabia. Thursday, September 13, 2007
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And the Saudis are re-importing the nuclear weapons technology that they paid to develop in Pakistan. They are, once again, the real face of the Islamic nuke. Not Iran. Given the Paki bomb, the Israeli bomb, and soon the Saudi bomb, Iran just awakened to what was happening in the neighborhood. Not to say they're all innocent or can be trusted. But it was the Paki/Saudi threat which is key to understanding Iran's desire to arm itself. They never did it when it was only America or Israel or Russia who had the nukes in the region.

Saudi Arabia is clandestinely developing nuclear weapons, according to a report appearing Wednesday on a Saudi Arabic-language news website.

Pakistani nuclear scientists who secretly entered Saudi Arabia during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca in 2003 have been the driving force behind the covert nuclear program, reported the Sawt Al-Salam website. Iraqi nuclear scientists were also said to have been recruited.

The Pakistanis reportedly instructed their Saudi hosts to construct their nuclear facilities under prisons to avoid detection. The website cited intelligence reports that indicated the Saudis are constructing a massive underground nuclear center and missile base south of the capital of Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia was widely believed to be a major financier of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program in the 1990s.

Saudis developing nuclear weapons - report

You claim that Paul supporters "want to blame a whole nations for the terrorist deeds of a few thousand people from that country".

In that little quote of yours,you have managed to mix up a fact with speculation and opinion;however,you have pointed out a truth which has caused many conservatives (as well others) to question our role in Iraq and the world.

You see,we know that only a few thousand persons in Iraq are terrorists and yet we have killed well over one hundred thousand civilians in our attempt to stomp out terrorism. We have also created a situation that resulted in millions fleeing the country,leaving family and homes behind. Most that stay are living in conditions far,far worse than they lived under before this all started.

Now we can all hope that the Iraqi's who have lost loved ones,limbs,homes,churches and other property may be able to rise above their losses and be grateful to their liberators but somehow,I think that instead,there will be innumerable seeds planted that will grow more terrorists and we will be engaged in perpetual war for perpetual peace.

We,who have been fortunate to have not had our country devastated by war during the last century should take some time to think about how we would feel if the United States had had been invaded and deconstructed. Then recognize that human nature is quite similar throughout and we might be a little less likely to keep waving red capes in front of bulls,so to speak.