The flip side of what ‘Rats cost Americans at the pump, is what Americans are putting into the wallets of terrorists. So, we pay more at the pump (to terrorists) while at the same time pump money into fighting them. What a sorry state of affairs!
That pretty much sums it up. The Democrats don’t like the money and profits the American oil companies are making. However, it’s perfectly ok with them for OPEC to make the trillions of dollars which should stay in this nation. And that’s money which WON’T fund terrorism! Go figure.
What Americans are putting into the wallets of terrorists:
Saudi Support for Islamic Extremism in the United States' ~ pdf doc
"ALMOST SIX YEARS after September 11, 2001, and more than four years since the beginning of the U.S.-led intervention in Iraq, the American government and media have begun to admit something every informed and honest Muslim in the world has known all along. That is: the "Sunni insurgency" in Iraq, as well as 9/11 and certain acts of extremist Sunni violence inside Iraq before then, are consequences of the official status of the ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi sect in Saudi Arabia, Iraq's southern neighbor. Saudi Wahhabi clerics have preached and recruited for terror in Iraq; Saudi money has sustained it; the largest number of those who have carried out suicide bombings north of the Saudi-Iraqi border have been Saudi citizens." continued
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"Confidential reports by the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. agencies, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, detail for the first time how much the U.S. learned about the use of Al Rajhi Bank by alleged extremists, and how U.S. officials agonized over what to do about it."
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"The U.S. intelligence reports, heretofore secret, describe how Al Rajhi Bank has maintained accounts and accepted donations for Saudi charities that the U.S. and other nations have formally designated as fronts for al Qaeda or other terrorist groups.
In addition, Mr. Al Rajhi and family members have been major donors to Islamic charities that are suspected by Western intelligence agencies of funding terrorism, according to CIA reports and federal-court filings by the Justice Department." continued