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[bush badee]

i WILL bet that when it all gets sorted out and settles down that the Saudi's are paying for the terror attacks against the US and British forces in Iraq.

Any one want to take that bet.?
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[Antonia]

Middle East
Intelligence Bulletin

Saudi Arabia's Links to Terrorism
A briefing by Laurent Murawiec

Once upon a time there was a reason for friendship between the United States and Saudi Arabia. After World War II, the kingdom's vast oil reserves and willingness to use its production capacity to ensure moderate and stable world oil prices were rightly judged to be vital to American national security. In return for these strategic assets, the United States pledged to protect the kingdom's oil supplies and obstruct those who would seek to control them, particularly the Soviet Union. Thus, when FDR met with King Abdulaziz bin Saud in 1945, a marriage of convenience was born. But the original reasons for this marriage of convenience have long since faded away. It is time for a divorce.
Cracks in the Marriage
The first indications that the foundations of this partnership were eroding came in the early 1970s, when the Saudis took the lead in establishing the OPEC oil cartel. Saudi Arabia was among the three leading instigators of the 1973 embargo on oil shipments to the United States and was the principal beneficiary of it. Rather than standing by the United States at a time when tensions between American and Soviet naval vessels in the Mediterranean were at an all-time high, the Saudis cut off oil supplies to the U.S. navy in October of that year.
The rationale for this partnership completely unraveled following the 1979 establishment of an Islamic Republic in Tehran, when Iranian clerics challenged the religious credentials of the Saudi monarchy. Ayatollah Khomeini condemned Saudi royals as corrupt, venal and decidedly unIslamic. That they should be challenged at all was bad enough - that they should be challenged by Shiites, regarded as a heretical sect by most Sunni Muslims, was intolerable.
The Saudi Royal Family
Since it established control over the Arabia peninsula in the 1920s, the Saudi royal family has claimed to be the guardian of Islam's two holiest sites – Mecca and Medina – and prides itself on upholding the "purest" form of Islam, known as Wahhabism. Wahhabism dates back to a pact between eighteenth century Arabian zealot Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and a desert brigand named Ibn Saud, which enshrined an alliance through marriage that produced the Saudi royal family. Until the late 1970s, Wahhabism was an extreme sect that happened to rule Saudi Arabia, but did not bother too many outside the kingdom's borders. To counter the proliferation of anti-Saudi Iranian propaganda, however, the Saudis decided to spread Wahhabi teachings abroad. The royal family's oil wealth poured into countries throughout the Islamic world, from West Africa to Indonesia, fueling a proliferation of madrasas (religious schools) that indoctrinated a new generation of Islamists. Even in the United States, Muslim children studied Islamic primers shipped from Wahhabi institutes in Saudi Arabia.
The Monster they Created
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 provided the kingdom with an ideal opportunity to sponsor a bona fide holy war that would showcase Wahhabi ideals and quiet Iranian-inspired Islamist opposition to the monarchy. Madrasas around the Arab and Islamic world produced shock troops for this jihad. After the Russians were driven out of Afghanistan, these "Arab Afghans" began trickling home and looked for other jihads. The Saudis had created a monster; to be sure they did not wreak havoc inside the kingdom, bin Laden and other Saudi Islamists were encouraged to wage holy war abroad. When the Clinton administration cornered Osama bin Laden in the Sudan in 1998, the Saudis refused to allow his extradition back home, where he could be neutralized. Instead, the Saudi intelligence chief – Prince Turki – reportedly offered bin Laden $200 million to go to Afghanistan, on the condition that he not target the Saudi royal family. Bin Laden honored his promise – there has not been a single attack by Al-Qaeda against the Al-Saud family. Inside the kingdom, Al-Qaeda has only operated against the Americans and the British. Over time, the understanding became that bin Laden would leave the Saudis alone only if they allowed the network of charities funding Al-Qaeda to operate unhindered. On the day after the September 11 attacks, the first thing Riyadh did was evacuate two dozen members of the bin Laden family residing in the US on the private jet of its ambassador, Prince Bandar.
Conclusion
With the end of the Cold War, the most persuasive reasons for maintaining the marriage of convenience with Saudi Arabia disappeared. With the September 11 attacks, the returns on this partnership went from zero to negative. The Saudis have become the friends of our enemies and the enemies of our friends. Bin Laden is an extension of Saudi foreign policy. To be fair, the Saudis don't quite know how to deal with the monster they've created – so far they've avoided tough choices. As long as the benefits of sponsoring terror are enormous and the costs of sponsoring terror are negligible, they will not take decisive action. The US must therefore make the costs of funding Wahhabi extremism terribly high, while making the benefits slim pickings.

[Antonia]

[bush badee]

[Antonia]

As long as the Saudis are in power, the war on terrorism will never be won.

[bush badee]

Your right antonia and their day of reconing is comming.

I dug up what I had written down about my son.
The only place I can think to post it is under Judiasm.
If you will look there in a couple of minutes it should appear,
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even better look under misc topics
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DAY OF INFAMY 2001
'Explosive' 9-11 report details
Saudi financing of terrorists
Analysis reveals U.S. officials warned of al-Qaida plot to hijack aircraft, launch 'spectacular attack'
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Top Bush administration officials were warned in the summer of 2001 that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network was plotting to hijack aircraft and launch a "spectacular attack," according to the final report of a congressional investigation into Sept. 11, reports the Miami Herald.
The paper quotes former Rep. Tim Roemer, D-Ind., as saying the long-awaited report will be ''highly explosive'' when it becomes public in the next two weeks.
Roemer served on the House Intelligence Committee, is also a member of the independent National Commission on Terrorist Attacks and has read the congressional report. He declined to give details of the 800-page tome, which is the byproduct of nine public hearings and 13 closed sessions held by the joint House-Senate investigation.
''It's compelling and galvanizing and will refocus the public's attention on Sept. 11,'' Roemer told the Herald. "Certain mistakes, errors and gaps in the system will be made clear.''
Citing an anonymous source familiar with the investigation, the Herald reports two ''sensitive areas'' of the analysis include a coherent narrative of intelligence warnings prior to 9-11 that were ignored or not shared with other agencies and new information on ties between the Saudi royal family, government officials and terrorists.
"There's little doubt that much of the funding of terrorist groups – whether intentional or unintentional – is coming from Saudi sources,'' the Herald quotes John Lehman, a member of the independent commission, as saying at a hearing yesterday.
WorldNetDaily reported in February that, according to a report prepared for the United Nations, Saudi Arabia has transferred $500 million to al-Qaida over the past decade and continues to finance the terror network in the wake of Sept. 11.
Middle East Newsline reports the findings of a French investigator asked to study the issue by Colombia, which occupied the presidency of the U.N. Security Council at the time, indicated Saudi dollars still represented the most important source of financing for al-Qaida.
The 34-page U.N. report also found that, despite pressure from the United States and adamant claims to the contrary, Riyad has failed to turn off the spigot.
"One must question the real ability and willingness of the kingdom to exercise any control over the use of religious money in and outside of the country," investigator Jean-Charles Brisard concluded.
Brisard was the expert on al-Qaida in France's intelligence service. He has worked as a consultant over the last year. His clients include the relatives of victims of the 9-11 attacks in New York and Washington who filed a $1 trillion lawsuit in April 2002 against the Saudi royal family, other wealthy Saudis and Saudi charities.
As WorldNetDaily reported, the Saudis mounted an aggressive public relations campaign to deflect accusations amid the revelation that donations from Princess Haifa bint Faisal ended up in the hands of Sept. 11 hijackers.
Payments reportedly totalling nearly $150,000 were made by Princess Haifa, the daughter of the late King Faisal and wife of Saudi envoy Prince Bandar, to a woman who passed on the checks to the wife of a man thought to be the front man for the Sept. 11 terrorists, and then ultimately wound up in the hands of two al-Qaida operatives who later became hijackers.
The congressional report is said to include the revelation that the Federal Bureau of Investigation may have mishandled the probe into how two of the Sept. 11 hijackers received aid from Saudi groups and individuals.
WorldNetDaily also reported that federal authorities have been investigating whether the Saar Foundation, which is connected to the Saudi royal family, and other Saudi groups have been laundering money to Islamic terrorist groups through U.S.-based Muslim charities. Some 80 such charities, many of them headquartered in the Washington area, received federal subpoenas for financial records.
Although the congressional report was completed in December, battles with the Bush administration over what secret data to declassify has held up its release to the public. Eleanor Hill, the staff director with the congressional investigation told the Herald the disclosure issue had been resolved and the document is now headed to the printer.
Hill said the report will contain redacted text to show where information was withheld.
Co-chairman of the congressional investigation, Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., who is also running for president, has railed against the administration for stonewalling over the declassification issue.
Meanwhile, the independent commission similarly complained Tuesday that federal agencies, especially the Pentagon and the Justice Department, were not cooperating with its requests for documents and testimony.
The panel's chairman, Tom Kean, the former Republican governor of New Jersey, also took issue with the presence of administration "minders" at interviews of intelligence officials, calling it "intimidation."
In addition to examining intelligence mistakes and oversights, the 10-member bipartisan commission is also exploring immigration, airline safety and congressional oversight of counterterrorism.
 

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[bush badee]

Actually if you read my post you will see that I have not come to that conclusion quite yet.
I would bet on it though.

By trade I am a research scientist and with out the actual cancelled checks in front of me, I will not reach a conclusion.

But I would give you odds on it.
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[Antonia]

Still Financing Terror

The Saudi Government says it has cracked down on Islamic extremist. But new allegations suggest Riyadh has increased its support for Hamas.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/946237.asp?0cv=CA00

[bush badee]

antonia if you believe the Saudi's have cracked down on foreign terror, I have a bridge in Brookly I would like to sell you.

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[Unknown 91]

Dear Bush Badee

I wonder could you answer some questions that i have.

1. What is your view on the documented links between Saudi terror and American complicity (Specifically the Bushes) ?

2.What is you view on the concrete links between Wahabbi exported terror and the CIA?

3. What is your view on the School of the Americas?

4. What is your view on Zionism?

5. What is your view on the CIA?

[bush badee]

[Unknown 91]

[Antonia]

The funds may go through Pakistan, but they sure don't originate there.


http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030801/D7SKRC680.html

[bush badee]

[bush badee]

You can make up baloney far faster than I can answere you.
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Bush's roadmap sabotaged by Saudis
By Mike Evans
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Following the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and the discovery that the majority of the hijackers involved in the decimation of the World Trade Center towers and the attack on the Pentagon were from Saudi Arabia, officials in Saudi announced that "charitable organizations would no longer be authorized to provide funds outside of Saudi Arabia, other than through highly controlled and government-supervised channels." The argument by Saudi diplomats continues that after Sept. 11, "they had turned over a new leaf."
Are the Saudis really as squeaky-clean as they claim, or are they playing a game of smoke and mirrors? Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal recently flew to the U.S. to ask that the still-classified information on the events of 9-11 be released. This trip came on the heels of the Saudi Ambassador's vehement statement that his country had "nothing to hide."
However, it is apparent that the Saudis have much to hide. Information gleaned from the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs hearing on "Origins, Organization and Prevention of Terrorist Finance" is rife with Saudi involvement in the funding of terrorist organizations that appear on the U.S. Specially Designated Global Terrorists list – including al-Qaida and Hamas.
The Saudi foreign policy adviser to Crown Prince Abdullah said on CNN's "Crossfire," "We do not allow funding to go from Saudi Arabia to Hamas." On June 23, 2003, Prince al-Faisal reiterated to the Saudi daily Arab news that only the PLO as the "legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, received funding from his country."
Unfortunately for his royal highness, the paper trail proves otherwise. The PLO was formed long before Sept. 11, 2001, yet during Israel's Operation Defensive Shield in 2002, a hand-written letter from Mahmoud Abbas to Prince Salman (brother of King Fahd) was found. It was dated Dec. 30, 2000. The letter included complaints from Abbas that Saudi donations were going to al-Jamiya (the Islamic Society), an arm of Hamas. Abbas wanted the funds for Fatah, his own organization.
Are there still connections between Saudi Arabia and Hamas? In October 2002, Khaled Mashal, one of the top leaders of Hamas, was invited to Saudi Arabia for a World Assembly of Muslim Youth conference. Another captured document revealed the information that Mashal had been invited to the conference by Crown Prince Abdullah. At the time, Hamas firmly refused to halt terror attacks while being assured by Saudi officials of their continued support.
On June 3, 2003, President George Bush met with the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Bahrain at Sharm al-Sheik. Following the meeting, Bush announced that all had committed themselves "to use all means to cut off assistance to terrorist groups."
In spite of this declaration of intent, even today – according to Israeli sources – Saudi Arabia contributes more than 50 percent of the needs of Hamas through dual-use charities. That assures the charities that funnel money to fund terrorist activities are still helped. And the amount of foreign aid is growing, not declining. Families of suicide bombers are still rewarded with aid.
What should be done to establish the link between Saudi Arabia and terrorist groups once and for all? The classified information regarding Saudi Arabia's involvement in funding terrorists should be declassified. No government that aids and abets the heinous activities of terrorists should be allowed to escape culpability.
The Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal also told Bush, according to an intelligence source, to "back away from demanding that the Palestine Authority dismantle militant [terrorist] groups immediately," referring to Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
The administration has agreed for the present time. Indeed, not only the roadmap for peace has been sabotaged by the Saudis, but also the Bush doctrine on terrorism which states that those who "harbor or support terror" are enemies of the United States. This will send a signal to the terrorist regimes that America has changed its policy and is willing to negotiate with terrorists.
 

[bush badee]

America has always been willing to negotiate with terrorists when it served the USA's needs.
America has never been accused of taking the high road.
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[Antonia]

I'll bet the Saudis paid for it.

Car bomb at Jakarta hotel kills 14:

http://msnbc.com/news/948382.asp?0cv=CA01&cp1=1

[bush badee]

These were probly home grown terrorists.
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