On the payroll of the House of Saud?
Are the Saudis still playing a double game? From WND:
Prominent members of the Saudi royal family continue to supply millions of dollars to al-Qaida and related groups, U.S. officials said, according to Geostrategy-Direct, the global intelligence serviceThe money is funneled through so-called charities, such as the Al Haramayn Islamic Foundation, they said.
On Feb. 19, the Treasury Department ordered banks to freeze accounts of the Oregon and Missouri branches of Al Haramayn. The foundation's U.S. headquarters is in Ashland, Ore.
An affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Oregon asserted Al Haramayn was used to relay $131,000 from Saudi Arabia to al-Qaida-aligned fighters in Chechnya. The affidavit also reported a federal grand jury investigation of Al Haramayn.
"We have to stop the princes soliciting support among the radical militants in Saudi Arabia," former CIA official Robert Bauer told the International Commission on Religious Freedom in November 2003. "We have to stop them from giving money. We have to encourage them to start reforms throughout the kingdom or it's going to bring the whole system down."
In January, Riyadh and Washington agreed to relay a request to the United Nations to freeze the assets of Al Haramayn in Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan and Tanzania. But officials said Saudi Arabia has refused to take responsibility for Al Haramayn, which is overseen by Islamic Affairs Minister Saleh Al Sheik.
The Bush administration is disappointed with Saudi Arabia's lack of cooperation to halt the financing to al-Qaida and related groups.
Despite the administration's insistence of growing cooperation, U.S. officials said Riyadh and Washington have made little progress in stopping the flow of funds from the kingdom to al-Qaida operatives in Europe and Asia. The officials said the administration's policy has been to publicly express optimism in hopes that Riyadh would improve cooperation.
"Saudi Arabia we're still dealing with," said Sen. Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican and regarded as close to the White House. "I mean, we've made progress there, but a lot of the money that supports terrorism comes right out of one place. We had to deal with that in a different way," he told the Council on Foreign Relations on March 12.
"Talking to the Saudis has been very frustrating," an administration official familiar with the U.S. effort with Riyadh said. "There's been some promises of cooperation, but they were quickly forgotten."
"Now, think for a minute. Al Haramayn is established by the Saudi royal family," said former Treasury Department general counsel David Aufhauser. "It strikes me that there is too much abdication of actual power and responsibility when you say you do not have the ability to actually close down these offices abroad and the best you can do is to freeze what assets they have within the jurisdiction and to prohibit further contributions."
Aufhauser made his comments to a conference of the Middle East Policy Council on Jan. 23.
Until November 2003, Aufhauser was the administration's point man in the effort to prevent al-Qaida financing. He said Saudi Arabia has not prosecuted any of its nationals on charges of relaying funding to Islamic insurgency groups.
"In the two and a half years I spent on this matter, I cannot remember a single Saudi who was held accountable for being a donor to terrorist financing," Aufhauser said. "Until we get to the donors, the exercise is a fool's errand."
When will the West learn that it is acceptable and indeed ecouraged for Muslims to lie and deceive infidels whenever necessary? Of course, the Saudis are still funding hate. They have just pledged money to help establish proper Muslim schools in several states in Northern Nigeria. The schools will teach their brand of Islam to be sure.
The Saudis still funding AQ??? I'm shocked!!! Shocked! And they're not cooperating on the WoT? Unheard of! Unbelievable!
This is all a Jewish conspiracy plot to defame the good princes of the Magic Kingdom...
The oil ticks will play both ends against the middle until the regime implodes.
Knowing that they can't confront us directly, Saudi oil barons, in and out of the Royal family, have devised a diabolical scheme using the religious tenet of Jihad. They are hoping that the jihadists can do what they dare not try in any other manner. They are hoping to become masters of the world. Why, with their fabulous wealth, aren't they in the world's driver's seat? Why isn't their "perfect" and "infallible" religion being practiced in every land for the glory of Allah? They are too lazy to make themselves masters by any means except deceit. Their scheme is not infallible, but it could be effective. We will have to expend a lot of blood and treasure to put these toads in their place.
The reality is that Al Qaeda is the Saudi-sponsored front for jihad against Jews, Christians, and the West. Al Qaeda is the army and the Muslim world provides support for the troops. These Muslim countries play a double game to spare themselves daisy cutters and MOABs cuz that's what they would get if they met the West directly. One thing the Muslim world learned from the Arab-Israeli conflict is this: warfare against Jews, Christians, and the West must be asymmetrical. Why? the cowards have no idea how to fight. Not only that, they want to retain the semblance of a state so that they could have a retreat or fall back position.
Stuff like this is what makes me laugh at that " Bush Boy " we got stuck with for a President over here in the United States. His War On Terror is a joke. The Saudi Royal Family has to be toppled not coddled.
Pakistan is another classic example. That country is the sheilder of what is left of Al Quida, all the while playing lip service to the Bush Boys War On Terror and getting billions and billions of dollars in aid from the United States.
The fanatics think their " Holy War" will succed because we infidels are a bunch of fools. Sad to say that Bush Boy is proving them right!