Posted on 01/18/2002 11:39:31 AM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
Paid $10 million to Iran for arms destined for Palestinian intifada
The financing of the Karine-A arms-smuggling ship destined for the Gaza Strip came from Saudi Arabia – a shocking discovery made, according to intelligence sources, by all three teams investigating the affair: American, Israeli and Palestinian.
They established that Saudi sources put up the $10 million paid over to Iran for the weapons cargo, the $400,000 purchasing price for the vessel and another $1 million to cover miscellaneous expenses, such as hiring the crew, fuel, repairs and port charges.
The discovery rocked the U.S. and Israeli governments back on their heels. But, together with the Palestinians, each decided for its own reasons to treat the information as sensitive and keep it under wraps. For, more than any previous indication, this new fact is disturbing evidence of the uncertain internal situation in Saudi Arabia, demonstrating for the first time the willingness of influential figures in the royal house and Saudi intelligence to go out on a limb and back the Palestinian-Hezbollah-Iran connection.
Until now, Saudi Arabia was known to have refused financial aid to Yasser Arafat’s intifada, funding only the fundamentalist Hamas at its bases in Palestinian-controlled areas, Jordan and Syria.
Technically, the funds for the arms-smuggling operation were advanced by Muslim charitable societies in Jeddah, but investigators say no sums of any such scale could have been secreted out of the oil kingdom without the knowledge and consent of Saudi intelligence and government authorities – especially if they went through Abu Dhabi and Beirut.
Intelligence sources close to the investigation say that the Karine-A funding is nothing compared to the burgeoning transactions in train between Saudi Arabians and factions of the Iranian government and military intelligence. Saudi Arabians are now believed to have underwritten some of the costs entailed in transferring al-Qaida fighters from Afghanistan via Iran to safe havens in the Gulf.
But of course they don't call me monkeyshine for nothing. :-)
The truth is that Saudi is a third-world pesthole but for the injections of oil money. Thay can't produce much more than camel covers for themselves, having instead used their wealth on high hog living for their master tribe and financing of terrorism around the world. The money's running out, the debt is piling on, and they're being found out. About time all the filth came home to roost.
"Thank You for flying Al Queda Airlines; please continue to scream "Allahu Akbar" until the flight comes to a complete and ABRUPT stop, or until ALLAH appers to you with his pitchfork and cloven hooves and directions to your own personal lake of fire..."
"YOU ARE EITHER WITH US OR YOU ARE AGAINST US." This also goes for Saudi Arabia...
A bunch of lying Sheetheads..
Couldn't agree more! I'd very much like for us to call their bluff! We have OPEC-distorted economics at work here. Left to their own means, they'll be more desparate to sell than we are to buy! Russia is sitting on comparable quantities of oil and they are far more desparate for $s.
Those who wish to trust it anyway, are certainly free to do so.
The three blind mice work mostly by omitting details. Debka differs in that they make many of their details up. BTW, the Saddam-inspired terrorism that Debka said was imminent by January 16th doesn't seem to have materialized...
Speaking of not cooperating in investigations, the Saudis most certainly did not cooperate in the Khobar Towers investigation. Then Director of the FBI Louie Freeh said as much.
No, I don't think the Saudis really "washed their hands" of Osama bin Laden.
And, yes, the preponderance of 911 hellhounds hailed from there.
Drill ANWR for the oil.
Drill the Saudi royal family just for the fun of it.
Au contraire! Planting spoiled meat in the Food Lion (ABC), planting dynamite inside a gas tank (NBC), deliberately mistranslating foreign speakers (CBS)...
They still rely primarily on omission - what was that story that Dan Rather refused to report upon for weeks? - not that omission is any better than concocting details, as Orwell once said, omission is the most powerful form of lie. But Debka should not be excused simply by saying that CBS is also full of crap.
It's time to drill ANWR Mr. Bush. End this countries dependence on saudi oil. There other sources that have oil and don't hate us simply because we are not islamic.
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