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WikiLeaks cables portray Saudi Arabia as a cash machine for terrorists (Hillary Clinton memo)
Guardian ^ | December 5, 2010 | Declan Walsh

Posted on 12/05/2010 8:13:48 AM PST by maggief

Hillary Clinton memo highlights Gulf states' failure to block funding for groups like al-Qaida, Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest source of funds for Islamist militant groups such as the Afghan Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba – but the Saudi government is reluctant to stem the flow of money, according to Hillary Clinton.

"More needs to be done since Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT and other terrorist groups," says a secret December 2009 paper signed by the US secretary of state. Her memo urged US diplomats to redouble their efforts to stop Gulf money reaching extremists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

"Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arabs; islam; muslims; saudi
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1 posted on 12/05/2010 8:13:50 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Well, well.


2 posted on 12/05/2010 8:18:01 AM PST by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Why are TSA exempt from their own searches?)
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To: maggief

Wow total shock there. Man who would have guessed that? Especially when you look at the tolerance they have for other religions.


3 posted on 12/05/2010 8:18:12 AM PST by jimpick
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To: maggief

I am shocked! s/


4 posted on 12/05/2010 8:18:55 AM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (DeMint/Ryan 2012!!!!!)
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To: maggief

Saudis aiding terrorism? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked!


5 posted on 12/05/2010 8:19:27 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: maggief

One thing and one thing only which we could do to fix this: Get the United States out of the oil market ASAP: develop every energy source available to us, move the world towards a thorium/supercapacitor economy, and put the new IC engines on a war footing for whatever unavoidable use of IC engines remains. By that last item I mean that AngelLabs engine and the Ecomotors OPOC engine.


6 posted on 12/05/2010 8:19:40 AM PST by wendy1946
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To: maggief

"Thank you, master."
7 posted on 12/05/2010 8:19:49 AM PST by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: maggief
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest source of funds for Islamist militant groups

We knew that before the leaks...

8 posted on 12/05/2010 8:20:24 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (FR Class of 1998 | TV News is an oxymoron. | MSNBC = Moonbats Spouting Nothing But Crap.)
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To: luvbach1

Here is the solution my friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsTRxXvQY0s


9 posted on 12/05/2010 8:20:43 AM PST by jimpick
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To: maggief
Saudi Arabia is the world's largest source of funds for Islamist militant groups



[Insert Pic of Captain Obvious here]


Many of us have suspected that for a long, long time. All that oil money has to go somewhere. And it buys a lot of friends and influence throughout the globe.



[Insert Pic of GW holding hands with Saudi Prince here]



10 posted on 12/05/2010 8:20:56 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Keith in Iowa
We knew that before the leaks...

Yup. Which makes me wonder what Assange is sitting on...

11 posted on 12/05/2010 8:21:22 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, how's that Lockerbie bomber deal investigation coming along?)
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To: maggief

So. Nuke Riyadh now, and we can reset the DHS security level to Green.


12 posted on 12/05/2010 8:22:02 AM PST by Clint Williams ( America -- a great idea, didn't last.)
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To: Clint Williams

my thoughts too. Directional drilling baby all the way.


13 posted on 12/05/2010 8:22:59 AM PST by jimpick
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To: Keith in Iowa

Yes, we did.

The question is, when will HRC resign?


14 posted on 12/05/2010 8:22:59 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

Hillary said WHAT?


15 posted on 12/05/2010 8:23:56 AM PST by himno hero
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To: maggief

We should not allow the Saudi financing of any more mosques in US.


16 posted on 12/05/2010 8:23:59 AM PST by opentalk
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To: Keith in Iowa

Pound for pound...for every single “leak”...we knew fifty percent of the Wiki-dope before Julian ever took the package. The Saudis may be shocked that we know the inside angle to their schemes...and that might be interesting to watch play out over the next year.


17 posted on 12/05/2010 8:24:01 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

Next, the leakies will be telling us that the Yemenis harbor terrorists — as if we didn’t already know that.


18 posted on 12/05/2010 8:24:01 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

Yemenis harbor terrorists it could not happen there too. That is just to far out to believe.


19 posted on 12/05/2010 8:25:50 AM PST by jimpick
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To: maggief

Gee, many of us realized this all along before we went to “war” in order to kill them over there so we wont have to kill them over here, all the while the feds are importing muzzies by the tens of thousands and ignoring the fact that saudi arabia funds schools as well as terror attacks with the money we give them for their oil.

The US gov.con lies about everything while enslaving we the people


20 posted on 12/05/2010 8:26:49 AM PST by winodog
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