Lt. Col. Jonathan D. Halevi writes in IMRA, "What Drives Saudi Arabia to Persist in Terrorist Financing?"
The U.S. offensive against terrorism has succeeded in reducing the extent of global terrorism. However, under the surface, the financial channels that are the arteries of radical Islamic movements from Hamas to the Chechens continue to operate. U.S. pressure has managed to force Islamic financiers to alter their pattern of operations, but the substance of their support persists - in a financial jihad that backs the wider global jihad against the infidels.Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states remain the most significant source of funds flowing to the Islamist movements. New documents found at "charitable foundations" linked to Hamas, as well as a careful examination of the Palestinian press, indicate a continuing flow of funds directly from official Saudi organizations to these foundations, which were declared by both Israel and the U.S. as terrorist organizations.
Palestinian Authority officials recently confirmed that Saudi Arabia
continues to fund charitable foundations controlled by Hamas. The World Assembly for Muslim Youth (WAMY) and the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) are active in transferring these funds. Captured documents show that the Saudi charity al-Haramain transferred funds to the al-Quran and a-Sunna Society in Qalqilia in August 2003 - almost two months after President George W. Bush announced in a summit meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, that he had assurances from Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah and other Arab leaders that they would halt all financial assistance to terrorist organizations.In a later captured document, dated 8 February 2004, the Hamas-linked Idhna foundation in the Hebron area thanked al-Haramain for its assistance. The chairman of the al-Haramain administrative council was the Saudi Minister of Islamic Affairs, a member of the Saudi cabinet...
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My opinion of the Saudi Royals will be kept to myself in the interest of the integrity of JW/DW.
They must do it now before the petrodollars dry up.
they are to irrational to got the slow legal way.they know after the gas is gone islam will whither on the vine .unless it has other income streams
Anybody feel like a cuddle and a kiss?
Holding hands with the robed sons of Allah anybody?
I suppose the privilege is reserved for our top commander in chief?
The source of their wealth must end.
Alternative energy will kill their petroterrorism.
Let a million wind generators, tidal turbines, solar arrays, biomass fermenters, geothermal tappers, soy bio-diesel plantations, methane distilleries, hydrogen fuel cell producers, and gasohol farms bloom!
An impoverished Wahhabi is an impotent terrorist.
The oil that flows out of holy Arab lands cannot be paid for by mere dollars. Only the infidel would believe that mere money can pay for the "blood' of Arab lands.
It must be used for the Islamization of the world, as a sword or army of Mamluks in ancient times of Islamic conquests.
By spending the oil revenues in the pursuit of Jihad and expansion of Islam,
Saudi Arabia fulfills its religious duties and ensures the survival of its ruling classes.
This is the real reason behind the astronomical funding of Islamic terrorism and infiltrastion of most of western society.
chevalier de st george - You nailed it!
Anybody feel like a cuddle and a kiss?
Holding hands with the robed sons of Allah anybody?
I suppose the privilege is reserved for our top commander in chief?
Posted by: Terminator at May 29, 2005 06:14 PM
Teminator:
I agree it looked bad, but Dubya hardly looked happy as he strolled along with Prince Whomever. Possibly it was more a case of holding one's friends close and one's enemies closer.
waterdragon52-
When Ariel Sharon recently visited GWB in Texas, an almost identical photo was taken, but there was no hand holding, just a normal handshake. The presidential Scottish Terrier was in the shot (see link), while "Barney" -as an unclean beast- was suspiciously absent when the Saudi 'prince' showed up for his cuddle-session.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/barney
I resent this animal discrimination, and wish the Saudis ill for their contempt for one of mankind's staunchest interspecies allies since the days of the cave dwellers.
The attitude in Islam that has such contempt for so many 'lesser creatures' (including women) needs a serious reformer to arise within this 'faith' - to humanize its self-absorbed arrogance.
I'll take a pot-bellied pig over the Saudis anyday.